Rob Wilson
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KS, USRobert J. Wilson is President of Meeting Evolution, an Overland Park, Kansas based Technology Company that was founded in 2008. Meeting Evolution is the most comprehensive web-based Strategic Meeting Management (SMM) software available to the meetings and events industry today. Meeting Evolution integrates global sourcing, custom hotel contracting, meeting consolidation / leveraged spend and data management. Our focus at Meeting Evolution is to leverage technology and business intelligence that drives team efficiencies and increased productivity for organizations implementing SMM solutions. Rob is very involved in the meeting and hospitality industry, including Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), Professional Conference Management Association (PCMA), Meeting Professionals International (MPI), Toastmasters International and serves on the Convention Industry Council (CIC) APEX Technology Committee. Rob speaks at many industry events and contributes articles to industry trade publications. Rob graduated from Drury University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
Robert J. Wilson is President of Meeting Evolution, an Overland Park, Kansas based Technology Company that was founded in 2008. Meeting Evolution is the most comprehensive web-based Strategic Meeting Management (SMM) software available to the meetings and events industry today. Meeting Evolution integrates global sourcing, custom hotel contracting, meeting consolidation / leveraged spend and data management. Our focus at Meeting Evolution is to leverage technology and business intelligence that drives team efficiencies and increased productivity for organizations implementing SMM solutions. Rob is very involved in the meeting and hospitality industry, including Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), Professional Conference Management Association (PCMA), Meeting Professionals International (MPI), Toastmasters International and serves on the Convention Industry Council (CIC) APEX Technology Committee. Rob speaks at many industry events and contributes articles to industry trade publications. Rob graduated from Drury University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
eRFP Best Practices
Love them or hate them eRFP's are here to stay.
This workshop is very interactive and will focus on sharing ideas on how to get the most out of eRFP's. I share trends over the past few years around response times, availability and contracting. We will discuss the industry standards that have been defined by the Convention Industry Council (CIC) on eRFP's, Housing/Registration, Event Planning and Post-Event Reporting. The information that is produced from these reports will...
Using Competitive Analytics to leverage your buying power
The combination of the recession, introduction of Strategic Meetings Management (SMM) and increased expectations by senior management has thrust ROI back into the spot light.
We are in a competitive marketplace, revenue management is a critical part to determining the cost of your event but it is often that meeting planners don't have a complete picture of their meetings spend or their organizations meeting spend to help them get the best deal for their events.
Using Busiiness Intelligence to manage event strategically
The combination of the recession, introduction of Strategic Meetings Management (SMM) and increased expectations by senior management has thrust ROI back into the spot light.
The intense focus on meeting "value and accountability" clearly is changing the way that planners plan and execute meetings & events.
In this interactive workshop, attendees will learn how to connect data that is typically kept in silos, leverage business intelligence for maximum negotiations &...
Meeting Planning Six Sigma Style: Six Sigma 101
For an organization to achieve a high level of success, there must be processes, metrics and people in place to deliver that efficiency. Six Sigma is a methodology adopted by many manufacturing companies to define processes and improve efficiencies. Adopted by major corporations like Motorola and GE, the Six Sigma tools have been adapted to apply to all processes within an organization as a means to identify procedures, improve efficiencies and provide standardized reporting...
Meeting Planning Six Sigma Style: LEAN 101
Meetings and events are projects with a lot of moving parts that often are bloated with redundancy, missed communications and can be a tremendous waste of time. Most meeting planners can quickly think of a few events that should be made LEAN!
LEAN manufacturing is a management philosophy derived mostly from the Toyota Production System (TPS) -which is renowned for its focus on reduction of the identified wastes at Toyota. The move to...
Meeting Planning Six Sigma Style: LEAN Six Sigma
LEAN thinking focuses on enhancing value for the customer by improving and smoothing the process flow and eliminating waste.
Six Sigma is a systematic and robust approach to improvement, which focuses on the customer and other key stakeholders.
By bringing LEAN and Six Sigma together you get a comprehensive set of principles that are used by small, medium and large companies to evaluate processes,...
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