1. MGI Europe
Strategy: Engagement

2. Main points brought up during “Open Space” at Mello
Reform the meetings
Introduce rules of international engagement
Introduce MGI Rising Talent meetings
Build databases

3. Some of our thoughts
Meetings are the most important means of engaging members in MGI
Maybe it’s time to rethink the MGI Meetings?
Merging Circles or create new Circles?
Cutting Costs?
Involvement of more people from each member firm?
Is it possible to combine Practice Groups and Meetings?
More business oriented
Higher involvement
More networking
Do we need “a meeting about The Meetings”?

4. Some of our thoughts: Do we need a database of MGI Experts?
Which subject areas would be relevant? (Tax, VAT, TP, … ?)
How can we build a simple database, which is:
Easy to access
Easy to keep up to date
Tools available on the market?

5. EEC focus for 2016
A second – low-priced but very business oriented – European Meeting.
Building a database of MGI Experts

6. Why a new kind of European meeting?
More and more, members are focused on cost
Meetings are expensive and time-consuming
99% (?) of delegates are partners
In many cases MGI is not “rooted” within the member firms
Member firms do not get the full value of the fee paid
The future of international business requires that our employees (not only partners) have “international confidence”
Circle meetings are losing their importance as old political and language barriers are broken down
Not a Competitor or Substitute for existing meetings

7. Draft for “One-day European meeting” in the Fall 2016
Location: major European hub airport (ex. Frankfurt)
Friday in October or November 2016
Fly in the Morning and back in the Evening
No cost for accommodation
No external speakers?

8. Draft for “One-day European meeting” in the Fall 2016
Time
Activity
Speaker/
Responsible
10.00 – 10.15
Welcome and intro to the day
10.15 – 11.00
Business Opportunities with MGI
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee-break
11.30 – 12.00
How do we work together?
12.00 – 12.30
Sharing Knowledge and Practice Groups
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 15.00
Conversation/discussions in “Open Space Groups”:
Tax
VAT TP HR
Audit
Management
Etc.
15.00 – 15.30
15.30 – 16.00
Closing remarks

9. Why a new database?
Easy access to the right people with the right qualifications
It’s other members that make you an expert – not yourself (Skills & Endorsements – like Linkedin?)
Is it relevant when in some countries there are only one or two member firms?

10. Ideas for a new database
Simple tool like LinkedIn?
To be used on the phone (An app?)

11. Next Steps
Debate at the EAM
Debate and conclusion in the ECC ?