Assessment Services
Learn how a Fortune 500 global security and defense contractor came to TCG Consulting to assess their travel program to ensure competitive position and compliance to government contracts.
ASSESSMENT
The first step toward improved program performance.
Get clarity on improving your travel, meetings, payment, and expense activities with our assessment services. Whether you’re approaching maturity or needing a complete program evaluation, we know that a comprehensive assessment holds the key to thoughtful, organization-centric solutions. We’ll pinpoint where your organization is among your peers and the market and reveal what your organization can achieve. Then we’ll show you how to meet each initiative.
Assessment Areas
At TCG Consulting, we work with stakeholders across your organization to ensure that your strategic initiatives are met every step of the way. Whether we are determining resource impact or deciding to phase out an undertaking, we take a holistic approach with our assessment services.
We know that establishing a reference point for your travel, meetings, payment and expense programs is essential to navigating a strategic path forward. When the data is collected, we provide a comprehensive baseline analysis and bench-marking to inform future decisions.
Travel
Assess your agency/delivery platforms, online book tools, travel suppliers and program effectiveness to look for innovative solutions that improve your workflow. Supplier content, NDC, mobile apps, global travel portals, and transparent data that can be implemented in your program.
Meetings
Assess your current meetings program in order to align your registration, approval process, planning, sourcing, contracting, execution, payment, expense reconciliation, data analysis, reporting, and technology solutions.
Payment
Discover the optimization quality of your payment program, working capital and data and analytics around your cards. Find new revenue channels, learn how to consolidate company data and spend and build a framework for a payment strategy that leverages a broader spend baseline.
Expense
When assessing your expense management program, we provide an end-to-end vantage point by assessing every area of your company that touches expense. Our holistic approach covers everything from reconciliation of traveler spend, to global standardized processes, and technology configurations.
What do we assess?
Our assessment services lay the foundation for program transformation—enabling operational efficiency and organizational growth. Get clarity on improving your travel, meetings, payment, and expense activities with our assessment services.
Users/Stakeholders
Involve your stakeholders and those who are impacted by the way your organization manages TMPE (Travel, Meetings, Payment and Expense) with our assessment services. Your key players offer important insights for boosting performance, and we’ll gather this data using interviews, surveys, and workshops.
SI Alignment
Gain a comprehensive baseline analysis to inform your decisions. We realize that establishing a reference point for your travel, meetings, payment, and expense is essential for navigating a strategic path forward.
Tools & Technology
Evaluate your technological solutions for improvement—as well as their impact and integration with other internal systems. Your tools play an important role in optimizing your travel, meetings, payment, and expense practices.
Security & Risk
Know exactly where you stand when it comes to organizational exposure and legal responsibilities. As a global consultant, we’re aware of the threats you face and our assessment services will shed light on your company’s risk mitigation practices.
Benchmarking
Measure your organization against your peers and the broader market. Let us broaden your horizons with industry and marketplace trends that impact program enablement.
Solution Analysis
Evaluate your solutions for improvement—as well as their impact and integration with other internal systems. Your current tools play an important role in optimizing your travel, meetings, payment, and expense practices.
Delivery
Ensure travel program delivery takes your resources and timelines into consideration. Whether we’re planning resource impact or deciding to phase out an undertaking, we take a holistic approach with our assessment services.
Compliance
Don’t let regulatory or user noncompliance create hidden costs for your organization. We’ll create a policy for travel and meetings governance—and map your travel options to organizational initiatives.
Reporting
Gain a comprehensive baseline analysis to support your decisions. We realize that establishing a reference point for your travel, meetings, payment, and expense is essential for navigating a strategic path forward.
Thought Leadership
We analyze the industry regularly and bring you reports to help you grow your own firm. Learn from our industry experts and team leaders.
TCG Advisory Services
Companies of all dimensions with varying degrees of program life cycles trust TCG as their true advisor. Our team provides market intelligence—as well as insights into best practices, peer performance, and key benchmarks.
Assessment
Assess and benchmark company strategies, supplier agreements, spend, policies, workflows, organizational design, and procedures.
Strategy
Provides the plan, milestones, and measurements to identify opportunities and TCO solutions within the roadmap to achieve desired results.
Sourcing
Professional approach to achieving supply programs for agency, air, lodging, car, payment, expense and more.