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Stakeholder Engagement

Winning over stakeholders with smart travel insights

Effectively communicating with senior leadership requires a strategic approach that aligns with their priorities and the wider company objectives — often focused around areas including cost efficiency, return on investment, sustainability, and compliance.

At Unlocked Data, our unique data reporting provides the insights needed to make informed smarter travel decisions and easily communicate this to your senior leadership team. It allows you to gather the information needed to drive strategic changes and answer their questions, such as:

Are we getting value for money?

A key area of interest for senior leadership within your organisation will be value for money. How cost effective is our current travel, how does it compare and what is the value of the current travel programme?

Our system provides detailed analytics on flight and hotel spending against industry benchmarks, using a RAG (Red, Amber, Green) rating system to highlight cost efficiencies and areas for improvement. This allows you to quickly assess the value for money and how cost-effective certain areas are and to share strategic insights for future expenditure.


Is my team doing the right thing?

Our dashboard helps you to share insights and quickly communicate how travel decisions are currently being made and to identify any potential areas for improvement.

Analysing a range of compliance metrics, our system will review your travel data across the team and provide an overview across the year offering a rating against the standard benchmark, and identify savings opportunities.

Do we travel too much?

Does the travel current program align with the strategic direction of the business? Stakeholders will want to ensure teams are travelling enough to remain effective, sales are optimised, and business is operating efficiently.

Our reporting tools can differentiate between billable and non-billable time, front office and back office, internal and external travel data and provide insights into the overall return on investment for your organisation.

Having this information to hand and assessing it allows you to communicate effectively with leadership and answer the questions of whether the current level of travel is efficient. This can help refine travel policies to maximise efficiency and profitability within the organisation.

How sustainable is it?

Sustainability is an increasing priority for many organisations. At Unlocked Data, we can provide you with the tools and information syou need to review how sustainable your travel currently is and make smarter, greener decisions moving forward. You can then use this data to communicate at a strategic level with senior management to bring sustainability to the forefront of the conversation.

By leveraging our reporting dashboard and advanced insights, you can communicate with stakeholders confidently, offering facts and figures alongside actionable insights that drive smarter travel decisions.

For more information on how our system can support your business objectives, get in touch and let’s book a quick demo!


ISO 27001 Certification

What is ISO27001 certification and why does it matter?

We’re delighted that in 2024, we received our ISO270001 accreditation, allowing our clients to feel even more safe and secure when working with us. In today’s digital world, data security is more important than ever before, but what is ISO27001 accreditation and what does this mean for our clients?

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What is ISO27001?

ISO27001 is a globally acknowledged certification that sets out the best practices for managing and securing sensitive information. It provides a systematic approach to risk management, ensuring that organisations identify, assess, and mitigate security threats effectively.

When working with our clients, we are often processing sensitive travel data including personal and financial information. Therefore, it was important to us that we were compliant with the international standards and ISO27001 certified.

In order to be certified, we were required to undergo rigorous assessment by independent auditors, validating our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of data security for you.

How Does This Benefit You?
  1. Enhanced Data Security – Your sensitive information is protected by a robust security framework, minimising the risk of expensive data breaches.
  2. Regulatory Compliance – ISO27001 aligns with legal and regulatory requirements, giving you peace of mind that your data is handled responsibly and in line with the guidelines.
  3. Addressing weaknesses – Through being more risk aware, we can quickly be more risk aware and recognise when potential weaknesses exist in your data handling process – correcting them before they become problematic.
  4. Greater Trust & Confidence – By achieving this accreditation, we demonstrate that we are committed to safeguarding your data and Unlocked Data take this really seriously.

Achieving ISO27001 is not just about gaining a certification—it reflects our ongoing commitment to continuously improving our service to our clients and ensuring your travel data is handled with care. We will continue to implement best practices and ensure that our clients' data always remains protected whilst it is used to produce reports that inform smarter, more efficient travel decisions.

By choosing to work with us, you can be confident that your information is in safe hands. If you’d like to learn more about how we can use your travel data to produce insights, reports and key information to make decisions, get in touch!


Reflections on 2024 achievements

Our mission continues

As we reflect on 2024, the concept of 'growing gracefully' perfectly captures Unlocked Data's journey. This year has been transformative for us, marked by significant milestones: welcoming a multitude of new clients to our expanding universe and growing our talented team!

Achieving ISO27001 certification is a testament to our team's dedication and our clients' trust. Your support has been the fuel propelling us forward, so thank you for being part of this incredible journey. Here's to another year of unlocking potential and growing together. Our mission continues! 🚀

Exciting Plans Ahead

Where to find us in 2025

It's the new year and lots of exciting plans for 2025 are in full swing! 📆 We can't wait to connect with more of you and work with more businesses to help them develop smarter travel strategies this year! We are planning to attend a number of events around the world 🌍 and hope to see you there, which conferences are you planning to visit this year?