About

Goal: Share accessible and relentlessly useful information resources that are congruent with the needs of meetings industry professionals.

MICE

MICE-Works is being developed for the Meetings Industry practitioners.  MICE (for the unannointed) stands for Meetings, Incentives, Conventions & Exhibitions. 

In 2005, expenditures in the US Meetings Market represented $107.2 billion and included almost 1.25 million meetings attended by more than 136 million people (M&C Magazine’s 2006 Meetings Market Report). 

Trends Impacting Meeting Planners

Meeting Professionals International recently published a “comparative outlook on the global business of meetings” in Future Watch 2007.  The report was based on survey responses from 1443 meetings professionals and reflected an outlook for more meetings, larger budgets and higher attendance rates.  When asked about internal challeges, measuring or maximizing Return on Investment (ROI) ranked high.  Many expect to be accomplishing much more in 2007 and the dollars invested will be more carefully tracked to measure the benefits of their meetings.  

Key issue: Planners will leverage their skills and resources to conceive and execute events which will be evaluated on the basis of investment return.

Collaboration = Leverage

In the book Wikinomics, the authors Tapscott and Williams talk about the Collaborative Culture and the fact that the Web enables peering: sharing, socializing, collaborating and, most of all, creating within connected communities. 

As the meetings industry community strives to accomplish more (e.g., execute more meetings, generate higher attendance at each meeting), it will more likely acheive its objectives by leveraging it’s expertise through collaboration and networking.

This site seeks to support that aim by using collaboration to augment resources that exist, reveal resources that are not accessible and create resources that are needed.