SAP Concur Blog: Travel Managers Should Become Strategists

A SAP Concur blog post notes that safety, risk, sustainability, and control of spend are common topics at the moment. As travel managers assess these challenges, they may ask how to prove their value when travel is reduced and budgets are lower. The article argues that successful travel managers should evolve from tacticians to strategizers, from doers to thinkers, and from second fiddle to the orchestra's conductor. It advises travel managers to understand how colleagues feel about getting back on the road and articulate the value of travel itself to the organization, and to look to travel management companies (TMCs) and technology to do the heavy lifting of booking, expensing, invoicing,…