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Why Mobility Is No Longer “DIY” for Business

According to Mani Zarrehparvar, the challenges that enterprise mobility presents are becoming more complex, just as are the solutions. The new president of Visage Mobile, Zarrehparvar spent 10 years as a mobile enterprise strategist — first as strategic solutions director at Asurion Wireless and more recently as director of mobility product management at AT&T. Here, Zarrehparvar explains why enterprise mobility is getting harder to manage, why smart businesses shouldn’t try to manage…   Continue Reading »

3 Tips for Managing Millennial Business Travelers

There’s a new generation entering the workforce and they bring with them an unprecedented set of needs and expectations when it comes to business travel. Labeled “Millennials,” “Generation Y,” and sometimes “Generation Y-Not?” for their proclivity to question everything, this tech-savvy generation will account for nearly 50 percent of spending on business flights by the year 2020 (according to BCG research). Given that this age…   Continue Reading »

What Makes People Happy at Work?

“Everyone wants to work in an engaging, exciting workplace… and happier, more engaged employees are more productive”[1] says Professor Julian Birkinshaw. So how do organisations create a happy workplace?  We interviewed Henry Stewart, author of The Happy Manifesto, to find out. How do salaries affect people’s happiness? Henry: It seems surprising but the level of pay isn’t actually top of most people’s agendas. Forty-eight per…   Continue Reading »

T&E Software That’s Useful, Usable and… Delightful?

It’s safe to say that listening to a favorite song on your iPod can be delightful. Reading a book on a Kindle certainly is enjoyable. But is it really possible to put mundane tasks like entering expense reports or searching for travel in the same category as listening to music or reading? That’s exactly the mission of Concur’s User Experience team—to make a product that…   Continue Reading »

The Perfect Trip Fund: Improving Business Travel for Everyone

The perfect business trip is the one that gets the job done. It puts your people face-to-face with customers and brings them back home safely and comfortably. It balances choice and compliance with sheer simplicity. And it does so always with your budget in mind. We believe we can turn the business trip into something that doesn’t seem like so much work. Technology should make The Perfect…   Continue Reading »

Happy employees? Expenses, policy and behavioural change

Previously, we published a blog about the link between cultural behavioural change, people, policy and compliance. It was so popular that we turned it into a white paper, which you can also download.  It explained how, even though it’s really important for businesses to have a travel and expense policy, there is often a difference between whether people are complying with the policy, or with…   Continue Reading »

Concur Embraces the Nexus of Forces to Innovate Business Travel

Mike Hilton is the EVP of Product Strategy and Marketing. He has been with Concur since the start, 20 years ago, helping to found the company and creating its first product, QuickXpense. In these 20 years, Mike has always kept his eye on emerging trends and technologies, looking for the ways they can help our customers. Back in the day, the world of business travel…   Continue Reading »

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