Evolving Mature Meetings Program into Total Meetings Management
Success story - snapshot
Industry: Healthcare
Service: Total Meetings Management (TMM)
Location:Global
Facts:
Integrated total meetings and events program within overarching governance
Designed custom infrastructure to gain visibility into spend within non-mandated environment
Initial 80% compliance increased through extensive stakeholder engagement
Brief
Large global client had reached maturity with their Strategic Meetings Management program, yet still missed critical cost and quality control elements in M&E process.
Client needed more visibility into total spend as internal planners and other external agencies not using central technology.
Non-mandated environment provided opportunity for leakage and lack of oversight and governance.
Challenges with compliance largely due to influx of client’s acquisitions with loyalty to legacy agencies, processes, technologies, etc.
Solution
As lead agency, CWT M&E remains agnostic to provide expertise and guidance on client’s entire ecosystem of preferred suppliers to drive adoption.
Implemented dedicated role to educate newly acquired stakeholders on importance of a managed program, allowing program managers to focus on service to existing customers.
Socialized production and A/V partners to events community and utilized total event data, including virtual, to provide technology reseller services.
Provided gap awareness around resisters in certain divisions; as CWT M&E is their sole sourcing provider, our reports provide critical data to advise on potential lost savings and spend.
Result
80% compliance increase in first 6 months through extensive stakeholder engagement.
20% leakage to non-preferred suppliers being reduced by CWT socializing all M&E suppliers and recognized as overall M&E subject matter expert.
Achieved mastery level of maturity by encompassing totality of meetings and events through unique stakeholder education and advocacy and advancement of policy and governance.
Collected data from other agency providers ensure visibility of total spend.
Client is thrilled with program success and focused on elevating, simplifying and adapting additional TMM concepts.