Optimization Strategy

A professional, comprehensive approach to optimizing your travel program

Carlson Wagonlit Travel works with its clients to define the desired performance targets and the related priorities and action plans.

Defining a clear, actionable, long term strategy is critical to move your travel program forward. CWT has nearly 1,000 professionals around the world who are responsible for analyzing travel programs and implementing program optimization strategies. They include travel program managers, as well as subject matter experts in technology, supplier sourcing, booking and fulfillment, and change management.

The best optimization tools

Our professional staff utilizes industry-leading tools to assess your travel program and identify optimization strategies of highest value to you. They use an Initiative Selector that starts with information from your diagnostic assessment results to help identify, customize, and prioritize improvement initiatives. CWT will collaboratively work with you to determine key initiatives to tackle, create a formal business plan, and report back on the progress made. The action plans created are designed on both a one-year and three-year basis to address both short term and long-term business travel challenges and company needs. In establishing the optimization strategy for each client’s needs, CWT professionals not only adapt best practices from the business travel industry; but also consider other industries and business practices that can help clients meet their goals.

Consulting services that achieve
results

When you’re ready to take the next steps and pursue specific initiatives, CWT will be there with professional account management staff experienced in assessing and improving travel programs. For in-depth initiatives that can be fully customized, you can engage CWT Solutions Group consultants for both ad-hoc and on-going projects. These consultants are experts in their field and in data analysis and support, they have helped clients average a ten-fold return on the cost of their engagement.

Furthermore, the CWT Travel Management Institute conducts in-depth research into the eight levers to effective travel management, providing clients with actionable insights and best practices they can use to optimize their programs.