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Global Airline CO2 Model
Need to know how much CO2 your global airline program is emitting? Want to see how your program compares to the industry averages? How about learning which carriers in your markets are the lowest CO2 emitters?

Now you can get rigorous answers to these timely but difficult questions. While this analysis is not free, TRX will donate 15% of the fees for running this sophisticated model to a designated carbon-offset program. See a sample dashboard report below.
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Business Intelligence: Leveraging Travel and Card Data
This presentation covers why, where and how Business Intelligence tools should be applied to managed travel programs. It takes a blunt and provocative look at the current state of travel data, makes the case for focusing on high-value analytics, pinpoints seven common mistakes and their counter-part best practices, reveals the real rationale for integrating card and agency data, highlights a trend away from single-agency consolidations, and explains to suppliers the advantages of supplying better data to travel buyers. Presented by Scott Gillespie at the ACTE Global Conference in Barcelona in October, 2006.
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Getting to the Goals - Strategies for Managed Travel
Presented by Scott Gillespie at the Chicago 2006 NBTA national conference in 2006. Covers the key responsibilities of a travel manager, major corporate goals and their implications for the travel department, how to select the right strategies, key success factors for achieving travel category goals, and some provocative ideas for future savings.
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What's More Important Than Savings?
Presented by Scott Gillespie at the ACTE Global Conference in Vancouver in 2005.  This presentation spells out why value matters more than savings, how value is created and measured in managed travel programs, the role and optimal level of travel policy, and a framework for helping travel category managers not only create high value for their companies, but communicate their value clearly.  Download the Program Valuation Model for a quick start on quantifying your program's current and potential value.
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Travel and Procurement: Getting The Best Of Both Worlds

Presented at the 2005 NBTA Conference in San Diego by Scott Gillespie. This session focuses on recognizing the different strengths of procurement managers and travel managers, how to select an optimal sourcing strategy, choosing the right travel policies, developing realistic savings estimates, turning data into actionable initiatives, and tips for managing the ongoing spend.
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When Procurement and Travel Merge
Presented by Scott Gillespie at the 2002 ACTE Conference in Montreal. Covers the strengths that each side brings to the table, sources of likely conflicts between Travel and Procurement, Key Success Factors and Best Practices for integrating Travel and Procurement.
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Strategic Sourcing and Procurement-based Travel Management: The New Model

Presented by Scott Gillespie at ACTE in Tampa (2001). Explains how strategic sourcing works, the role of external consultants, setting realistic goals for travel sourcing, procurement's role in travel sourcing, travel-related procurement tools and their effectiveness, and more. Geared to corporate travel managers and travel procurement professionals. Contents include: Strategic Sourcing and Travel; Sourcing Readiness Test; The Procurement Model For Managing Travel; Ten Commandments For Successful Travel Sourcing; Sample Sourcing Work Plans (Travel Policy, Agency, Airline, Car Rental, Hotel); Sample Business Cases
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Corporate Travel Departments (CTDs): How To Improve The Volume And Visibility Of Your Travel Program Revenue

Corporations can significantly improve their ability to see, control and grow their travel program revenues by becoming certified Corporate Travel Departments (CTDs), says Andrew Menkes, CEO of Partnership Travel Consulting. Read this executive summary for more information.
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2003 Stages Of Travel Management Excellence Industry Benchmark Report
See how this important benchmark report may change the way you think about managed travel programs! Travel Analytics analyzed the Stages of Excellence scores from 84 firms on behalf of ACTE. This is the presentation Scott Gillespie gave at the ACTE Spring 2003 Global Conference based on the results of the study. So what separates the best travel programs from the rest? The best programs get top scores from the better use of 1) their travel staff, and 2) their travel data. For more details, download this file.

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Stages of Excellence for Travel Management –
A Self-Scoring Tool
Looking to evaluate your overall travel program? We've developed a fast, yet surprisingly rigorous assessment tool for corporate travel programs of all sizes.  Presented by Scott Gillespie at the ACTE 2002 Conference in Munich, it grades 70 components of a corporate travel program across 14 critical dimensions.  This tool lets you rate your current practices and set your goals using our insightful Stages Of Excellence (SOE) evaluation framework.  You'll get a Powerpoint (R) 2000 file explaining the SOE framework, and an Excel (R) 2000 workbook for doing the scoring and goal setting.  Be sure to download both files below for the complete set.

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