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International Congress and Convention Association
Today’s and Tomorrow’s PCO
44th ICCA Congress & Exhibition, Monday 7 November 2005
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Today’s and Tomorrow’s PCO
Panellists:- Sarah Markey-Hamm ICMS Pty Ltd, Australia
- Julio Urban Idealiza Events, Brazil
Moderator:- Jurriaen Sleijster MCI, Switzerland
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Today’s and Tomorrow’s PCO
PCO views from 3 continents: how we see the future
A lively debate with the audience: how you see the future
• How do PCO’s need to change?
• What are the biggest challenges?
• Which business models?
• What do clients want next?
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Model for this session:
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Model for this session:
• Bold statements about the future
• Graphs projecting trends
• Lively debate to see if we agree!
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Perspective 1: The PCO
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The PCO:
• Business Model
• Staff
• Technology
• Finances & Fees
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The PCO: Business model
• Services: From logistics to knowledge-management
• From PCO to Core-PCO to Association Management
• More different services
• Brand: Increasingly important
• Risk-sharing & creating own events versus “simply supplying”
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The PCO: Business model
• Size matters: bigger AND smaller
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The PCO: Business model
• Location: PCO must be close to the client
• Location: PCO must be close to the event destination
• Groups, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions (national & international)
• Purchasing key to success (preferred suppliers, set contracts)
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The PCO: Staff
• More educated: “consultants”
• Higher salaries for better skills
• Fewer staff for same workload
• “What’s in it for me?” attitude
• International staff is a “must”
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The PCO: Technology
• Less in-house data management
• Increasing on-line tools
• Do-it-yourself service tools
• Cost of IT increasing
• IT skills KEY in staff efficiency
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The PCO: Finances & Fees
• Price (cost to client) increasingly important
• Transparency will kill % margins & kickbacks
• Selling added value instead of time: “price per service”
• Cash flow: a need for more cash?
• Client will shop around more
• PCO should be “client-selective”iccaworld.com
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The PCO: Finance & Fees
• Invoicing: From % to time to added value
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Perspective 2: The Client
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The Client:
• Sophistication
• Needs
• The new client
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The Client: Sophistication
• Outsourcing versus in-house
• Improved purchasing
• Knowledgeable buying
• Client staff moves around: ex-colleagues and ex-competitors become clients
• Clients increasingly become good references or barriers (they exchange ever more information)
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The Client: Needs
• Specific services rather than package solutions
• Will use multiple suppliers
• From sole risk to shared risk
• Will shop for simple (logistical) solutions…
• …but needs consulting & added value (opening for PCO’s who are ahead of the curve!)
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The Client: The new client
• Emerging markets
• “Between meetings”
• Corporates behaving like associations
• PCO’s creating their own events
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Perspective 3: The Supplier
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The Supplier:
• Quality & price
• Partnerships
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The Supplier: Quality & Price
• PCO’s will increase demand for quality from suppliers: their success is the PCO’s success
• Price pressure from client to PCO gets passed on to supplier
• Same solution for supplier as for PCO: become an added value (competition on price leads to certain death)
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The Supplier: Quality & Price
• PCO’s become more knowledgeable buyers
• PCO’s will use purchase agreements and preferred vendor agreements
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The Supplier: Partnerships
• Contracts become increasingly important, but…
• …building relationships with suppliers is KEY to success (“we’re all in this together!”)
• Best network = winning advantage
• Suppliers as source of new business
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Perspective 4: The Competitor
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The Competitor:
• The ones you know
• The other ones…
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The Competitor: The ones you know
• The strong ones will get stronger: the battle will be harder
• Niche-marketing PCO’s: small and nimble, picking little pieces
• Who’s buying who? A new way of competing
• The client & his do-it-myself solutions
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The Competitor: The ones you know
• Competition moves from price to skill to added value
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The Competitor: The other ones…
• The all-in-one event venues
• Convention bureaus who supply PCO services
• DMC’s who expand their services
• Marketing agencies & PR agencies (ditto)
• AV agencies, production companies (ditto)
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… and your perspective ?
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Today’s and Tomorrow’s PCO
44th ICCA Congress & Exhibition, Monday 7 November 2005
Thank you!