With travel expenses ranking among the top corporate expenses, travel managers are being asked to take a more strategic, "big picture" view of their travel investment by developing a business plan that aligns their management strategies with agency activities to ensure tanglible results. JTB's Business Planning Process is specifically designed to help clients achieve their travel management objectives.
The six steps to success
- Establishing the business needs and goals for your travel programme
- Assessing your current business plan by conducting an annual assessment of your corporate strategies and travel management goals as well as T & E processes
- Evaluating opportunities to improve strategic fit of current plan with your needs:
- developing business processes tailored to suppport your needs
- identifying areas for cost saving
- negotiating with strategic partners on your behalf
- improving information flow to assist decision-making - Implementing a project plan based on agreed elements to deliver benefits
- Monitoring project plan to ensure benefits are being delivered
- Providing travel spend analysis and reviewing against business plan