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3 Must Haves for a Successful Global Strategic Meetings Management Program

August 1, 2013 by Shimon Avish

Part two in a multi-part series on successfully globalizing a strategic meetings management program. Identifying constituencies affected by change, their reasons for resistance to change, and available tools to overcome their resistance to change, are the three ‘must haves’ to facilitate the implementation of a global program. Applied early and often these change management strategies […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: Change Management, Change Management Process, Change Management Strategy, Effective Change Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Management Program, Meeting Management, Meeting Program, Risk, Risk Management, Risk Management Programs, Stakeholder, Strategic Meeting, The Change Management Process

Simple Meetings. Why Do We Need RFPs?

July 29, 2013 by Shimon Avish

Why are we still using RFPs to book simple meetings, when we could be using a completely automated touchless system?   Have you ever considered why it takes the same effort and number of days to book a simple meeting as it does a complex meeting?  It is because we are still using RFPs to […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: E-procurement, Meeting Packages, Meeting Rfp, Meeting Solution, Meeting Space, Meetings Events, Meetings Technology, Request For Proposal, Rfps, Simple Meeting

How Does Strategic Meetings Risk Management Impact Your Meetings Policy?

July 24, 2013 by Shimon Avish

Compliance sections in meetings policies have expanded beyond the use of certain suppliers or approval processes, to include language that mitigates strategic risk.   In order to mitigate the risks associated with meetings & events, a meetings policy must address compliance to policy, suppliers, and processes, as well as compliance to strategic meeting & event […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: Bribery Act, Cancellation and Attrition, compliance regulations, corporate compliance program, Corporate Meetings, Duty of Care, Employee Safety, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Meeting Management, Meetings And Events, Meetings Risk, Mitigate Risk, regulatory compliance management, SMM, strategic meetings management

How to Successfully Implement a Global Strategic Meetings Management Program

July 16, 2013 by Shimon Avish

Part One of a Multi-Part Series on Globalization If I learned one thing from my most recent four-year foray into designing and building a global strategic meetings management (SMM) program it’s that NOBODY WANTS TO BE TOLD WHAT TO DO BY CENTRAL, whether central is HQ telling the field, or the United States telling another […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: global implementation, Global Program, Global Strategic, Learned, Lessons, Meeting Management, SMM, strategic meetings management, Successful Implementation

Meetings and Events: Be a Risk Mitigation Rock Star

July 9, 2013 by Shimon Avish

Check out Debi Scholar’s blog on meetings risk management. She has some very interesting statistics gathered for American Express Meetings & Events that highlight the gaps between company policies and actual behavior. Very eye-opening.

Filed Under: Corporate Blog

26 More Ways to Mitigate Risk in Your Corporate Meetings & Events Program

July 8, 2013 by Shimon Avish

My last article was overflowing with so many strategies to mitigate the risks associated with corporate meetings and events that I had to split it in two.  The last article focused on: Duty of Care Lapses Fiduciary Breaches Signature Authority Breaches Cancellation & Attrition Penalties Reporting Inaccuracies This article will focus exclusively on: Regulatory Violations […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: Bribery, Bribery Act, compliance regulations, corporate compliance program, Corporate Meetings, Employee Safety, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Law, Meetings And Events, Mitigate Risk, regulatory compliance management, sunshine act

37 Ways to Mitigate Risk in Your Corporate Meetings & Events Program, Part 1

July 1, 2013 by Shimon Avish

In my last blog post, which focused on identifying the main areas of risk in an organization’s meetings and events program, I promised that in my next blog post I would look at mitigation strategies for these risk areas. To recap from last time, there are six main types of risk in a meetings program, […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: Cancellation and Attrition, Duty of Care, Meetings Risk, Signature Authority Breaches, strategic meetings management

If Your Company Conducts Meetings, Your Employees, Brand, and Finances are at Risk

June 5, 2013 by Shimon Avish

Meetings remain a necessary way for us to communicate information, build relationships, and sell to our customers.  BUT, like with many things in life, there is a degree of risk associated with them, and where there’s risk, there’s also the responsibility of those of us in the industry to mitigate that risk.  And the risks […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: Duty of Care, Meetings Risk, SMM, strategic meetings management

Strategic Meetings Data Management…Boring!

May 27, 2013 by Shimon Avish

So you have a meetings technology system as part of your strategic meetings management (SMM) program, and you’re using it for all the usual tasks like managing attendance, facilitating sourcing, budgeting, and reporting.  But did you realize that your technology platform informs at least nine different critical areas of your SMM program, as shown in […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog

Gaining Control of Unmanaged Spend and Risk in Strategic Meetings Management Programs

May 15, 2013 by Shimon Avish

Strategic meetings management (SMM) programs range from the basic to the highly complex, however, there are three basic steps required in gaining control over unmanaged expense and containing risk.  The three steps are highlighted in red in the following graphic.  The other six elements shown in the graphic represent components of an SMM program that […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog

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