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MICE Procurement Part 2: The Enterprise Perspective

Vinzenz von Brühl Sep 15, 2026, 9:30:41 AM

Why MICE is so much more difficult for procurement than any other indirect product category.

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7 Levers: How Conference Hotels Win More Event RFPs via MICE Platforms

Laura Wagner Sep 14, 2026, 3:11:55 PM

Companies are shifting their event sourcing into structured procurement and venue sourcing systems. For conference hotels, this is not a threat but..

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A smiling woman sits at a table on the terrace of a hotel or restaurant with her laptop; in the background, a blue sky and the sea—a symbolic image of blended travel, in which business travelers combine work and leisure, for example, as part of a bleisure or workation stay following a MICE event or a business trip.

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Blended Travel: When a Business Trip Turns into a Two-Day Getaway

Laura Wagner Aug 4, 2026, 12:31:51 PM

Friday afternoon, Barcelona. A participant in a three-day trade conference closes her laptop but doesn't check out. Instead of heading to the..

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Two colleagues in business attire high-five each other with beaming smiles in a modern, bright office; in the background, additional desks and workstations are visible—a symbolic image of the moment of triumph following successful budget negotiations in event management. The gesture symbolizes efficient teamwork, mutual appreciation, and the positive results that strategic MICE management enables despite budget pressures and rising costs: consolidated requests, negotiated terms, and greater impact with the same or a smaller budget.

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How to Deliver Better Events in 2026 Despite Budget Constraints

Laura Wagner Jul 14, 2026, 11:42:08 AM

Why rising costs despite stable event budgets are becoming the new normal, and what strategic MICE management has to do with it.

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Strategic MICE Management in Practice: The DATEV building in Nuremberg, headquarters of one of Germany’s leading software and IT services companies with over 9,000 employees. DATEV eG has strategically transformed its entire event procurement process with the help of MICE Portal—moving from decentralized maverick buying to a fully integrated, SAP-connected MICE procurement process with a 90 to 95 percent booking rate via the central platform. This example illustrates strategic MICE management in the DACH region: transparent processes, system-enforced compliance, quarterly savings analyses, and an audit-proof end-to-end process without media breaks—all implemented in collaboration with MICE Portal, the leading procurement platform for professional event procurement in Germany and throughout the DACH region.

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Strategic MICE Management: How DATEV Eliminated Maverick Buying

Laura Wagner Jun 25, 2026, 4:47:33 PM

How DATEV nearly eliminated Maverick Buying in Event Procurement with Strategic MICE Management.

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AI in MICE Procurement: What It Really Means for Your Day-to-Day Work

Lisseth Cardenas Jun 17, 2026, 5:00:11 PM

Request forms, proposal comparisons, approvals, reporting: much of this still runs manually today: We show you how AI is changing these processes in..

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Working Together Toward a European Standard in MICE Procurement: MICE Portal and Chateauform Launch OneMICE

Maximilian von Brühl May 17, 2026, 10:11:40 AM

MICE Portal and the French Chateauform Group combine their strengths. Over 20 years of procurement technology in Germany and three decades of..

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MICE Procurement Part 1: An Industry Between Tradition and Transformation

Vinzenz von Brühl Apr 13, 2026, 2:56:27 PM

Why event procurement is the last category that hasn’t been digitalised

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Focus on the industry MICE is still fit for the future in 2025

Lydia M. Juchert Dec 10, 2025, 2:12:29 PM

Little known but with great potential.

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