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Any meeting planner who has worked with medical meetings knows it’s a different kind of animal. That includes pharmaceutical meetings as well. However, the guidelines for their meetings have changed again. On first sight they may not make it easier on the planner, but if you look deeper you may find that they make things more efficient by removing choices.

Sure, meetings across the board have changed and rules have become stricter. However, remember that when you remove choices, you remove time spent evaluating things that have already been evaluated by someone else. For instance, if a rule states that you can only have four security guards, then you don’t need to hassle with convincing a client that she needs six.

You could say that stricter rules for pharmaceutical and medical meetings has taken guesswork out of what is best practice for a particular meeting. In fact, best practice in some cases is not even a consideration. In the above case of security personnel, it wouldn’t matter if six were better–you can only have four and that is that. Read the rest of this entry »