CAS (Corporate Advisory Services) is a division of Burke International which partners with major corporations to deliver bottom line cost improvements within their event management functions.

Our success is based on proprietary industry benchmarks and analytical techniques, but also through continually collecting and investigating our own 160+ planners’ time-tracking data over the past years.

Key Areas Of Performance Improvement

Efficiency (Potential Gains)

• Generate accurate management information to allow department managers to accurately assess team’s operational efficiency and resource requirements
• Reduction in average cost per planner hour, through team restructuring and improved planning utilization levels
• Less expenditure on freelance contractors, through improved resource forecasting and reduction in full-time planner headcount required
• Promote less wasteful behaviors from internal client hosts

Effectiveness (Potential Gains)

• Increase in the team’s event delivery capacity through improved operating procedures and role/responsibility definitions

Revenue Generating Opportunities (Potential Gains)

• Improved access to third party vendor commissions and rebates