Business: Risk Factor Apps.
Mobile devices have long been an integral part of business. Smartphone apps quickly help you with questions and problems on site. However 65 percent of companies make their employees no guidelines in the use of mobile deals. Thus they compromise the security of sensitive corporate data on mobile devices. For this result, the current survey "Chefsache Business Travel" by Travel Management Companies is the German Travel Association (DRV).
Basically, mobile devices are a useful aid to business. So there are special travel apps that provide information on flight cancellations or delays and provide alternate routes. However, the indiscriminate use is not without risk. It is precisely unknown Apps may contain harmful or even spy software that enables other parties to obtain access to sensitive corporate data.
"Who does not have clear guidelines in the use of mobile offers its employees, negligent," warns Stefan Vorndran, Chairman of the DRV Business Travel Committee. For the experts of the careless handling of Apps on business is also a sign that the mobile communication for many companies is still largely uncharted territory. The German Travel Association recommends that businesses, to be assisted by TMCs. This make applications available that are tailored to the needs of business travelers, while ensuring data security.
Moreover, the specialists help voices to integrate the issue of data protection in the travel policy. Employees thus receive clear guidelines to which they can refer to business without sacrificing important information. And the Company prevent the wrong click an employee to travel to the danger for the whole company is.
The survey "Business Travel 2013" The study "Business Travel 2013" was carried out on behalf of the German Travel Association (DRV). 100 managers who are regularly on business itself, and 100 Business Travellers managers and professionals from companies from 250 employees were interviewed for discussing business.
About the campaign "Chefsache Business Travel" In business, companies are their most important resource a: the highly qualified staff. Send Knapp 90 percent of their employees with the aim to travel to get business deals signed and sealed or at least prepare. However, the efficient design of business enterprise nevertheless often measures the executive suite at no strategic importance. Here the task is becoming increasingly complex. Not only costs, but also other criteria such as sustainability or security need to be considered.
The initiative of Travel Management Companies in the DRV is to anchor business as a strategic management issue and to make better known the benefits of a professional business travel management in cooperation with the TMCs on decision-making level. For more information, visit www.chefsache-businesstravel.de.
Source: Berlin [DRV]
