Stockholm conference participants engaged in active dialogue and debate on key issues while receiving some of the most important concrete take-aways in recent memory. To view these presentations, scroll down and click on the link that reads: view this presentation. Please note that all materials on this page are the intellectual property of ACTE and may not be reproduced without prior approval.

Technology & Data Management
  • M201 Driving On-line Utilisation
    A Six Sigma Approach Installing an on-line booking tool is easy--high utilisation is not! This session will help you understand what travel purchasers can do utilizing Six Sigma, a powerful process improvement methodology--to increase on-line booking tool utilization, improve business processes and achieve real ROI.

  • View this Presentation: M202 Managing Expectations: Technology and Globalisation -- A Reality Check
    Implementing a global travel management program is a common goal for many multi-national corporations and promises significant payoffs in terms of supplier leverage, cost savings, and better MIS capability. This session will explore the enabling technologies of globalization and bring into focus the challenges--and opportunities they present.

  • View this Presentation: M203 Information Management: Getting From "Data" to "Wisdom"
    In this new environment emphasizing sourcing and procurement practices, data is "king". But the information traditional tools provide are no longer sufficient for the demands of the business. This session will provide a case study approach to how to successfully convert travel expense data into financial intelligence that is easily shared across the enterprise, including a discussion of applying the rigors of procurement practice in this arena as well as minding security and governmental obstacles as it relates to data usage.

  • View this Presentation: M204How To Use Corporate Card Data To Improve Your Company's Hotel Programme
    Using billed data and global hotel reporting is a powerful tool in optimising usage, saving money and driving compliance. Learn from case studies on how country, city, chain and property level reporting can optimise rate usage and how new technology can automatically keep a check on hotel programme rates around the globe.

Strategic Travel Management
  • Visions of the Future - Travel Industry Scenarios and Strategic Planning
    One of the big problems in all businesses is the necessity of making a decision now, knowing that the implications of that decision will play out over a time far, far longer than the time over which we can have any feeling of certainty. The decision by Airbus, for example, to build its monster jet commits Airbus for decades. And if, for whatever reason, the demand for air transport collapses, or - more subtly - doesn't collapse, but moves towards smaller airframes, then Airbus could well go broke. But if it doesn't, they will gain a major advantage over arch-rival Boeing. How can such decisions be taken wisely? Is it a hunch? The whim or driving will of the CEO? Or maybe a roll of the dice? How can we sensibly take decisions, and plan, under conditions of uncertainty? This session will begin to lay the framework for an ongoing ACTE initiative on building travel industry scenarios or histories-in-advance that will create a context in which individual organizations across the travel management spectrum can formulate individual business strategies.

  • View this Presentation: T202 Multi-Market Servicing in EMEA
    Many travel purchasers consider multi-market consolidation as the next big step in driving down operational costs and increasing process efficiency across Europe. Is this fact or fiction? Is automation and consolidation into fewer travel centres the name of the game? How do the complexities of cross-border issues and regulations in Europe impact your ability to consolidate? Does one solution fit all? How did this fit with the drive to on-line? What strategy is best suited for your firm?

  • View this Presentation: T203Meetings Consolidation - New Opportunities for Cost Savings
    According to advocates, planning meetings with the same purchasing disciplines as corporate travel procurement can help companies save 10 to 30 percent, including incremental savings on group travel, and may introduce interesting synergies for the purchase of transient business. This interactive session will examine how meetings are qualified, savings potential, the need for a positive, solid, value based relationship with your critical venue suppliers and technology options to support meetings management at both the strategic and tactical level.



























































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