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BTN Bestows Int'l Honors On Intel.

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Business Travel News this month named Intel global strategic sourcing mobility manager Megan Stowe the 2008 International Travel Manager of the Year during the opening session of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives global conference in Rome.

Editor-in-chief David Meyer cited Stowe "for leading in the development of a sophisticated, strategic, locally sensitive approach to multinational travel management, expanding its scope under the banner of mobility services and heading arguably the most active laboratory in testing the bounds of travel management this year."

Much of the work by Stowe and others at Intel has challenged the norms of travel management. Intel views travel as part of a broader conception of managing the needs of employees under the heading of mobility. Intel's procurement and human resources departments both oversee travel, helping to achieve balance between the essential, but potentially conflicting, management imperatives of controlling costs and maintaining traveler welfare.

Other examples of Intel's bold thinking include undertaking a rigorous assessment of whether the entire travel function should be outsourced--verdict: not for the time being--and Stowe's earlier six-year...

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