Strategic Spending On the Rise

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 in January, more than half of respondents reported that they have a program in place to calculate total meeting spend. Of those who do not, half said they plan to put one in place in 2007.