Strategic meetings management is fast becoming best practice among businesses. Using a standardized approach across your company brings benefits that have long been recognized by organizations around the world.
By using one central source to track what you’re spending and where, you’ll be able to monitor events and meeting expenditure company-wide. And you’ll see where you might be able to make savings. Having Management Information (MI) at your fingertips can also help you optimize your negotiations with suppliers and drive your costs down even further.
The strategic approach was widely adopted in the 1990s by the USA pharmaceutical and technology industries, where large organisations with multiple locations made centralised meetings and events management the obvious choice. Cultural and language differences mean strategic meetings have grown more slowly in Europe, but technological advances have helped us meet these challenges. ATPI is now rolling out strategic meetings throughout the UK and across our global network of offices.
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