Happy Holidays from Miller Tanner Associates!
The team at Miller Tanner Associates wishes you a happy and healthy holiday season!
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2016 Highlights: Miller Tanner Associates’ “Year of Efficiencies”
It happens every year! Time just flies. It seems like only yesterday I declared 2016 a “Year of Efficiencies” for Miller Tanner Associates – a year dedicated to exploring how MTA could incorporate more efficiencies into our work product by working smarter. Now 2016 is coming to an end and I am proud of the strides we’ve made regarding efficiencies that will have both a positive impact on our clients and our internal team. Here are some highlights from the year: Emergency Contingency Plans In pre-planning for MTA events, our team puts in place our...
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How to Optimize Your Risk-Based Monitoring Plan
Over the past few years, the pharma and CRO industries have been focused on creating better quality monitoring, using risk-based monitoring plans, to change and improve the ways that site monitors work. Technology and a risk-based plan outline what to watch for in the data, and define when a monitor should go on site as well as what amount of source data verification is required. One of the variables that is assessed in these risk-based monitoring plans includes directives for staff turnover and staff training needs.
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The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Annually, we survey our Miller Tanner team, and without fail one of the aspects that is most valued among our staff about our company is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). And we think we have a hunch as to why. We, as a company, personally value CSR because it fosters a sense of connectivity among our virtually-based global team members. With our team dispersed across the globe, it’s an important opportunity to not only connect with each other but also with the community at large and the needs around us. It’s become...
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5 Ways To Keep Your Event Costs Low
Do you want to keep event costs low while providing a flawless, top-notch event for your attendees? Then hiring a meeting and event planning company is a must. At Miller Tanner cost savings and cost avoidances are a way of life and the constant goal for all our departments. In fact, in 2015 we were able to save our clients a combined $750K. Cost savings isn’t just a purchasing or finance activity, but it extends to our operations and media teams as well. Each and every day Miller Tanner strives...
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Creating Meeting Experiences: Team Building
Planning a meeting is one thing. Planning a memorable meeting experience is another. The difference is — personalizing it. That’s what Marnie Battistini, CEO of Miller Tanner Associates believes. “You create a memorable meeting experience by connecting with people. Personalizing it. If you are going to spend money to bring your team together, then maximize that investment by making it a memorable experience.” In this series on our blog, we will explore dynamic ingredients, that we deem the secret sauce, for creating not just a meeting, but a memorable meeting experience that...
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MTA Superlatives Awards
2015-2016 Miller Tanner Associates Superlatives Awards We are pleased to announce our inaugural “Superlatives” for the year! In July, at our Miller Tanner Global Workshop, we recognized and awarded distinguished team members for their outstanding contribution to Miller Tanner throughout the previous year. Their special talents and skills contribute to the “Miller Tanner Difference”. We thank them for their dedication and hard work throughout the past year. Here are our “Hall of Famers” for 2015-2016:
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What Our Global Workshop Teaches Us About Our Clients’ Needs
Miller Tanner Associates recently completed our 19th Annual Workshop. This year it was in Atlanta, Georgia where 64 of us gathered from five continents and 11 countries. Our theme for the event was “Beyond All Limits” and our Workshop had many goals. I wanted to share a few goals as they do impact the work that we do for our clients on a daily basis.
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Easy Transparency Reporting for Hospitality
We know how important transparency reporting is to our clients. As pharma-related companies, you want to provide meaningful training and timely product information to your health professional attendees to ensure that they understand how to best care for their patients. We also know that your priority is to conduct investigational studies in a manner as required by International Conference on Harmonisation and Good Clinical Practices guidelines. Miller Tanner can help support you with our thorough compliance and transparency reporting from beginning to end for each of your medical meetings. How We...
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Top Technology Trends in Meetings
As Director of Global Business Innovation, my role is to ensure Miller Tanner is always on the forefront of technology by introducing new ideas, workflows, methodologies, services and products all while maintaining the highest level of security for our clients’ intellectual property. Global Business Innovation encompasses every department and aspect of Miller Tanner’s business model. An example of our latest technological advancement is implementing an UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) system so our clients and vendors can reach us anytime, anywhere on any device. The system encompasses telephone, text, instant...
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