SMB Events Management: How to Develop an Effective Program
Editor's Note: It's SMB week at CPO Rising and we plan to reprise a few articles (and add a few new ones) this week focused on the small and mid-sized…
SMB Events Management: How to Develop an Effective Program
At CPO Rising, we’ve taken the time over the past year to highlight the various components of modern complex spend management. Each spend category within this greater banner (travel, meetings,…
Instant Analysis: ACTIVE Network and Lanyon Merge to Deliver New Offering
ACTIVE Network Business Solutions, a solution provider in the events management industry and a subsidiary of recently privatized, ACTIVE Network, and Lanyon, a leading provider of transient hotel program technology…
2014: The Year Ahead in Meetings and Events Management
Complex spend categories, such as meetings / events and business travel, while considered mere costs of conducting business on a global scale, are becoming more strategic spend areas of the…
The Virtual Factor
Publisher's note: Since today's topic is about virtual meetings, we'd like to take a minute to invite you to our own virtual meeting. In the age of globalization, geography becomes…
Meetings and Events Management: Technology Update, Q4 2013
Welcome to CPO Rising’s first installment of its technology update series on the meetings and events management space. These updates will highlight solution provider updates, acquisitions, updates to platforms, awards…
Big Data and Meetings / Events Management
On CPO Rising, we like to keep it interesting so we’ve tackled a variety of complex spend categories and how the concept of “Big Data” impacted core strategies, approaches and…
Mobility and Complex Spend Management (Part II)
The first article in this two-part series highlighted the growing rise of mobile applications and solutions within the greater framework of complex spend management. Earlier, we discussed how mobile apps…
A Collaborative Approach to Event Management
Business travel and corporate meetings/events are two of the largest expenditures for the average enterprise, and while procurement organizations often find the good ways to reduce costs within these two…
Engagement Management and the Evolution of Events Management
Having just returned from one of our industry's biggest and most engaging events, Ariba LIVE (more about that from Andrew tomorrow and next week), I thought it would be a…