Futurewatch: Planner's Predictions for 2007

There's no question that strategic meeting management is no longer just the purview of a handful of Fortune 500 companies with large, centralized meeting departments. In Meeting Professionals International's 2007 Futurewatch survey, presented at its Professional Education Conference in New Orleans last week, more than half of respondents reported that they have a program in place to calculate their total meeting spend. And of those that don't, half said they plan to put one in place in 2007.<