Corporate Travel as a Corporate Asset

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Making Corporate Travel a Strategic Corporate Function

Senior management emphasizes communication, creativity and focus on enterprise value when defining the role of the "strategic travel manager." Typical travel benchmarks like "cost per mile" are relatively meaningless in the Board Room; C-level executives want business value metrics. This session describes how to:

• Develop appropriate value metrics, KPIs and dashboards that track success and measure the value of "cost avoidance"
• Build supplier relationships with clearly delineated roles and responsibilities
• Answer the question: why have a managed travel programme when you can book it on the web for free?
  

Presenter:
Parijaat Banerjee, Travel Lead, Accenture

Data: Just Take What You Can Get, Rudimentary and Refined Data?

Data provides the manager of business travel directions toward achieving his or her business objectives. In some cases there is severe scarcity of data whilst in others excessive data bogs you down in deciding which provides useful information. These sessions takes you from the original question of what and where to the task of how to make your travel programmes stand on strong foundations of information. Then we examine the value proposition of cards, how to identify what your organisation needs and the sourcing process for card solutions.

• What options are available when you have no data to begin with?
• What sources of data is available in India?
• What type of data do you need?
• How do you evaluate reliability, validity and accuracy of the data?

Moderator:
Srinath (Sri) Devireddy, President, TRX Asia

Presenter:
Rajesh Rakheja, Associate Vice President, E2E Serwiz Solution Limited

Presenter:
Pranjal Saikia, Vice President, South Indian and Multinational Accounts, FCm Travel Solutions

Presenter:
Jagdeep Singh, Senior Associate, Integrity Consultants

Lunch Presentation: Do All Credits Cards Grow Up to be Corporate Cards?

Cards are hailed as a tool for solving front end and back end problems but how many offer effective solutions for India’s business travellers and corporations?

• What are the differences between a credit card and a payments solution product?
• What do you need to be ready to implement a corporate card programme?
• How relevant are card programmes for India’s business travel needs?

Presenter:
Avinash Luthria, Global Commercial Solutions South Asia, Middle East & Africa Region, MasterCard Worldwide

Roundtable Discussion: Airport Woes – Is Privatisation Working at India’s Airports?

Will the move to privatise India’s airports and expansion plans meet the needs of the growing domestic and international business travel market? Airport authorities and experts share insights on some of the developments, inviting questions concerning the viability and capabilities of these concepts in resolving long-standing inefficiencies.

Closing Remarks by ACTE