My view is that COVID-19 is the best thing to happen to unhooking HIMSS as having any power in HC going forward. They turned into a money-making, strong-arming group that made vendors ACTUALLY think that if you weren't at HIMSS, you weren't a player. So many companies blew millions over the years paying exorbitant booth space -and didn't dare miss a year or lose their "seniority" in getting a good location next year.
There were only two reasons to exhibit - it becomes the annual meet and greet and entertainment for large vendors and their clients, and two, for smaller companies looking to get traction or find investors. The second one rarely paid off, and promotional funds that could have been put to better use were wasted on HIMSS direct costs, plus the hotels, meals and expenses to pay for staff to stand around a booth looking at their iPhones. And seeing little traffic back on aisle 8400 where their first year dollars placed them, often a quarter mile from the main entrance (ala NOLA).
The after-COVID world will be a different place in many ways. Big box retailers will only accelerate the planned closings of their brick and mortar stores, more and more goods will be bought online (which also takes the margin out of retail, not necessarily a good thing), demonstrating that work from home actually works for a lot of jobs (reducing office space needs), use of Zoom and similar reduces air travel to meetings. And a big one - showing vendors they don't have to kowtow to HIMSS because little Toto (the dog otherwise known as COVID) just pulled back the curtain on the Wizard of Oz.
Sudhakar Mohanraj - 4 years ago
A non-for-profit organization which made profits from the hardships of Small businesses
Beer Me - 4 years ago
On vendor participation: Extortion. Taxing. Fleecing.
On the game of vendors paying for access to providers (buyers): Gate Keeper. Transfer Payments. Access Control.
On how we all should feel (vendors on one side of the relationship and providers on the other): Whoring. Circus.
On value provided by HIMSS "education" and annual tradeshow: Bling. Clamorous. Tawdry. Sideshow
My view is that COVID-19 is the best thing to happen to unhooking HIMSS as having any power in HC going forward. They turned into a money-making, strong-arming group that made vendors ACTUALLY think that if you weren't at HIMSS, you weren't a player. So many companies blew millions over the years paying exorbitant booth space -and didn't dare miss a year or lose their "seniority" in getting a good location next year.
There were only two reasons to exhibit - it becomes the annual meet and greet and entertainment for large vendors and their clients, and two, for smaller companies looking to get traction or find investors. The second one rarely paid off, and promotional funds that could have been put to better use were wasted on HIMSS direct costs, plus the hotels, meals and expenses to pay for staff to stand around a booth looking at their iPhones. And seeing little traffic back on aisle 8400 where their first year dollars placed them, often a quarter mile from the main entrance (ala NOLA).
The after-COVID world will be a different place in many ways. Big box retailers will only accelerate the planned closings of their brick and mortar stores, more and more goods will be bought online (which also takes the margin out of retail, not necessarily a good thing), demonstrating that work from home actually works for a lot of jobs (reducing office space needs), use of Zoom and similar reduces air travel to meetings. And a big one - showing vendors they don't have to kowtow to HIMSS because little Toto (the dog otherwise known as COVID) just pulled back the curtain on the Wizard of Oz.
A non-for-profit organization which made profits from the hardships of Small businesses
On vendor participation: Extortion. Taxing. Fleecing.
On the game of vendors paying for access to providers (buyers): Gate Keeper. Transfer Payments. Access Control.
On how we all should feel (vendors on one side of the relationship and providers on the other): Whoring. Circus.
On value provided by HIMSS "education" and annual tradeshow: Bling. Clamorous. Tawdry. Sideshow
Bullies!
The term I would use is narcissistic