Taff Partnership ClientsAt the center of everything we do is you, our valued client. We work with you to understand your company’s culture, what’s important to you, and to design a custom travel program that delivers quantifiable results without sacrificing service quality for your employees. The Taff Partnership has experience across a number of industries including high-tech, manufacturing, banking, medical devices, and bio-tech among others. Our success stories include: Photon Dynamics, Inc., CEVA, Ingris Corporation, AXT, Inc., Persistence Software, Inc., Interwave Communications, Inc., ADAC Laboratories Inc., and Sun Microsystems, Inc. to name a few. What Clients Are Saying About The Taff PartnershipWe’re proud of our clients’ successes. Here’s what a few clients are saying about working with us: "Hal has helped me at two companies to bring our global travel program into compliance with our Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) initiatives by writing internal processes. In addition, he wrote our new global travel policy, managed the travel agency selection process, and successfully negotiated travel supplier contracts that reduced our travel spend by 35%. Finally, a company that gets it - cost containment and traveler service improvement! The best call a company can make is to The Taff Partnership!" -Cal R. Hoagland, CFO “The Taff Partnership has saved Photon Dynamics almost 35% in travel expenses and has significantly improved the quality of travel for Photon employees. Hal has provided a structured program that includes travel policies, vendors, and the global infrastructure to ensure future SOX compliance and business travel cost savings. Hal also provided and executed the communication plan to employees - painlessly! The Taff Partnership has significantly exceeded our expectations.” -Dave Crivelli, VP Human Resources, Photon Dynamics Inc. “The Taff Partnership has a successful track record helping me over the years to rationalize our global travel program, and more recently, bringing it into compliance with our Sarbanes-Oxley initiatives by writing internal processes. In addition, The Taff Partnership wrote our new global travel policy, managed the travel agency selection process, and successfully negotiated travel supplier contracts that reduced our travel spend by 35%. I recommend The Taff Partnership with enthusiasm.” -Christine Russell - CFO Spotlight Client Success Story: Photon Dynamics, Inc.In 2004, San Jose-based Photon Dynamics, maker of yield solutions for manufacturing flat panel displays, was a fast-growing success story. A young company with a “can do” fun and friendly culture, the company went from 100 to 600 employees in no time. With this kind of employee growth, its travel spending also grew several fold – and too fast for a company of its size. Each country the company operated in was using a different travel agency vendor with different policies. Moreover, these travel agency partners provided little data to Photon’s management. Consequently, the company was not able to accurately manage and track its travel costs, and was unaware of many of the hidden costs in its vendor agreements. Expense growth cut into profits. The challenge for this company was to grow profitably. The new CEO wanted to contain expenses and ensure that company sales people received quality service from travel vendors. Since sales people were on the road for long periods generating revenue for the company, their comfort was important. The solution: Within four months, The Taff Partnership generated results by creating a global travel consolidation program to help uncover hidden costs and reduce them immediately. The results: savings of between $100,000 and $125,000 per month on global travel expenses. This made the CEO happy, and improved service made frequent corporate travelers happy, too! How? The Taff Partnership started with a corporate travel policy review that revealed hidden costs. Working within Photon’s corporate culture, and respecting its priorities, we achieved savings immediately by:
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