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Brought to you by Bondurant Consulting:
Volume 26, Dec. 29, 2011
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Greetings!
Welcome to Keeping it SiMMPle, a bi-monthly newsletter aimed at making and keeping your Strategic Meetings Management Program Practical, Light, and Effective. For Meeting Managers and Procurement Specialists, this newsletter will assist you in finding practical solutions and provide advice on actionable steps to gain visibility and control of your organization's meeting spend. For Suppliers, you will gain insights into the issues that your clients face, and how you can support their SMM programs. In addition, Keeping it SiMMPle will highlight key industry trends and identify tips that will make your job easier.
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Each issue of Keeping it SiMMPle addresses a component of the A to Z of SMM from a Practical, Light & Effective perspective. In this issue Z is for Zed
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My friends in the UK use the term "Zed" where I would say simply, "Z" for this last issue of Keeping it SiMMPle -Strategic Meetings Management, Practical, Light and Effective from A to Zed in 2011! (To clarify, in Commonwealth English, the name of the twenty-sixth and final letter of the letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet is Zed, which I enjoy here, as opposed to the abbreviated "Z" that we use in the States.) Thank you for joining my journey this year in exploring some of the hot topics relating to Strategic Meetings Management from A to Zed! I thought it would be helpful to recap the 25 previous issues from this year below; each title includes the link to the archive so that you can access any of the issues you may have missed.
- Avoiding Analysis Paralysis
- Benefits of Benchmarking
- Increasing Compliance
- Download on Data Analysis
- Evolution of Strategic Meetings Management
- Friction
- Going Global
- Helpful Hoteliers
- Importrance of Implementation
- Justification
- Knowledge is Power
- Leverage
- Measurement
- Next Generation of SMM
- One Size Fits All
- Powerful Procurement Partnerships
- Quarterly Business Reviews
- Reducing Risk
- Stakeholder Management
- Tackling Travel
- Understanding e-RFP Implications
- Value of Meetings
- Who, What, Where, Why & When of SMM
- eXplaining
- Your Impact on our Industry
I have heard positive response to the newsletters throughout the year so I plan to write another series of A-Z newsletters in 2012. This year, I had some suggested topics that came in from Keeping it SiMMPle newsletter fans and there were a few guest contributors who offered their expertise, which I really enjoyed! I want to be sure that I address the issues you want to hear about next year. Therefore, please reach out to me if there is a specific subject that you feel would provide interesting content for Keeping it SiMMPle - Strategic Meetings Management: Practical, Light and Effective!
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Tip #1: Planners, Be Proactive! If you don't have an Strategic Meetings Management Program in place at your company, take the first steps to suggest that SMM become an important initiative for the year.
Tip #2: Suppliers, Be Proactive! If your clients are just starting on SMM initiative, be supportive by proactively providing data and industry best practices for their review.
Tip #3: Talk about the economic significance that our meetings industry has to them U.S. economy: 1.7 million jobs and $263 Billion in spend!
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Congress recently passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012, which will reduce visa wait times and improve processing of inbound travelers at land border crossings and international U.S. airports
149 was the average number of people cleared in an hour at airport check points in 2011
New Year's Day is the closest thing to being the world's only truly global public holiday
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| All the best for a happy, healthy and successful 2012! |
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Sincerely,
Betsy Bondurant, CMM, CTE
phone: 619.701.7709
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| About Bondurant Consulting |
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Bondurant Consulting provides the following services:
- Assessment of SMMP potential for your organization
- Development and implementation of SMMP for meeting & travel managers
- Training programs for hotel companies and 3rd party meeting planning agencies which increase their understanding of Strategic Meetings Management, resulting in more successful engagements with clients who are involved with SMM
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