Secret of CME Success Revealed: Treat Physicians as Customers

For medical conference organizers who struggle from year to year with parsimonious budgets, recalcitrant boards, and self-absorbed course directors, it really does seem impossible to believe that for three consecutive years, CME Information Services, Inc. (CMEIS) in Mount Laurel, NJ-a company that is at least nominally in exactly the same business they are-has made Inc. magazine's list of the country's 500 fastest growing private companies. Founded in 1989 by Louis J. Bucelli and Timothy I.