JULY 20189As technology, Event managers do make Apps for Events and Conferences, but unfortunately, we don't have ERP which can help to rise above our current planning standardsgetting enhanced, but at least 95% of the agencies yet operate on word and excels and on outlook for there day to day team communication. Event planning needs massive coordination between team members and suppliers involved, and one single miscommunication can ruin the show completely, with current tools avail-able managers spend there most of the time in verifi-cations and going through sheets & power points mul-tiple times to avoid blunder and mishaps at the venue. With multiple offices and numerous team members and large format projects stakes are quite high and in SHOW business there is no retake, you just get one chance to NAIL it.Event planning software or ERP tools are yet not customized for this industry, there are various gener-ic tools like teamwork, Slack but aren't foolproof and customize for Event Managers requirement.For event planning, there are multiple teams in-volved viz Creative, Client Servicing, Production and Operations, Talent team, across management level from department head to executive level, most of the projects are last moment and need quick turnaround and same needs to be ensured that various suppliers (partners) involved need to be on the same platform to avoid miscommunication.Techspace is shifting towards blockhain or bigda-ta, few global ticketing companies use this technolo-gy to avoid tickets, QR code duplication but I believe software techies have yet not give recognition or felt need to address planning problem of event man-agers may be coz of small industry sizel as compare to other industry domain.Lately, Most of the event managers & client op-erates on WhatsApp group for quick update and in-stant sharing of data but there is lot to data need to be synchronized before its been shared as reports.As technology, Event managers do make Apps for Events and Conferences, but unfortunately, we don't have ERP which can help to rise above our current planning standards.Though we plan events, but it's high time we up-grade our systems with customized ERP catering to event planners.As an event manager you always consider good as your last show but I am sure for our future shows te-chies will come up with something that simplify our planning and make it more eventful.
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