I have been involved in strategic meetings management for 12 years now, and I have seen only a small handful of instances where organizations were willing to use the word “mandate” when describing their SMM programs. In fact, I have usually heard...
In previous pieces I have written about how important I think strategic meetings management is, and what I think should be included in an SMM program. And yet, it seems to me that the spread of SMM has stalled. For the purposes of this discussion...
The common rationales for developing a strategic meetings management program are:
• to contain and reduce costs
• to mitigate regulatory and duty-of-care risk
• to consistently deliver engaging events
These are all exceptionally good reasons ...
More and more often I hear that we should take the word “strategic” out of strategic meetings management, or SMM. People say that what is being done under the rubric of SMM is not at all strategic, so we should drop the word to stop confusing eve...
If I were to believe my eyes, all the evidence would lead me to believe that strategic meetings management is dead.
I just came back from the Global Business Travel Association convention, and in my conversations with stakeholders from across th...
Shimon Avish of Shimon Avish Consulting LLC, is the MeetingsNet SMM Pro. Send your queries about designing and implementing strategic meetings management programs to shimon@smmconsulting.com, then check back here for answers! Names have been chan...
Is it possible for a travel manager to learn to take on meetings? Of course, but it will require looking at existing responsibilities in a different light, and learning some new ones. Here's what you need to know about the similarities&mdash...
