Previous workshops

Attending the past EIPM workshops gave the participants the opportunity to discuss and exchange experience on Human Capital Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Value creation in Meeting and Event Industry …

Workshop: Innovation and Purchasing

Innovation is one of the key competences companies need to master in order to succeed in today’s competitive environment.

This workshop built on the collective expertise within the EIPM network. It used proven knowledge sharing techniques including a benchmarking survey, peer assisted sessions and a lessons learned session.

The workshop provided access to best practices and allowed participants to reflect on their current ways of working. 

Workshop: “Examining the links between Human Capital Drivers & Leading Purchasing Initiatives”

Managers are always claiming, « People are our most important asset.” But deep down, they can’t shake off the feeling that employees are costs. Big costs. And they treat them that way.

With the financial crisis, this further aggravates the situation, the priorities of most companies would be to focus on cost reduction, and putting aside people development schemes till the economy rebounds.

This strategy may increase earnings in the short term, but it’s myopic. Studies have shown that layoffs actually destroy shareholder value. Research from the Harvard Business Review on measuring ROI on people shows that treating employees like the assets they are – by investing in their development – boosts returns over the long term.
At the same time this period of financial turmoil may be the right moment to focus on the Human Capital Drivers to monitor the climate and motivation of employees, and to find out if these drivers are in place to create the conditions for energising the performance of the organisation.

Presentation of the results of the HCM Survey during the workshop, a snap shot of the Human Capital Management practices in the current business climate.

CSR Workshop: "Sustainable Development: is Corporate Social Responsibility an opportunity or a constraint to Purchasing?"

“Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainable Development” topic and its impact to Purchasing:
 

• How Purchasing can handle with CSR & SD
• What has been done in Purchasing concerning CSR & SD
• How companies manage the risks on CSR with suppliers
• What training for the Purchasing Team to integrate the CSR & SD dimension in their function
• Difficulties and challenges to companies in this area

Events Workshop: “Value creation in Meetings and Events Industry: the role of Strategic Purchasing”

Issues & challenges concerning:

• Improve your knowledge of the Meetings and Events business (facts & figures)
• Purchasing strategy and organization concerning Meetings & Events
• Improve the practices and commercial relationships with your agency, Internal  Customer and Corporate Meeting Planner
• Define the main guidelines to implement best practices
• Benchmark of your company purchasing practices with the EIPM information

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