Deming Institute

APRIL 25, 2016

This is even more true in services where often you can’t inspect to catch errors before the customer is disappointed (think of call centers for example). I left the hotel, went to the airport, got on the plane and I flew home to my family. You need to improve the system to avoid producing poor results. I hated it.

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Deming System Senge Seminar 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Your projections for the business should not be wildly optimistic so you can manage your expectations and those of any partners. Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. Getaroom stands out because it presents a new model for hotel room booking. We built a U.S.-based

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

I experienced a similar asymmetry when a credit-card company informed me that the terms and conditions for claiming hotel rewards had changed. For example, the number of miles needed for a free night in a top-category hotel room had gone from 125,000 to 160,000. "If IT management' So that''s how I spent the next 31 minutes.

Airlines 8

Airlines Hotels Loyalty Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

But already a pervasive network also lets firms ship calls to virtual call centers. LiveOps is one company that helps put call center work in the cloud. That work isn't somewhere else, it's anywhere.

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Call Center Offshoring Charisma Video 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

And a leading hotel chain asks customers to direct message their account number so the company can link the social handle to their account in the brand’s CRM system. Responding to customer care issues over social media can cost as little as one sixth of a call center interaction while generating higher levels of customer satisfaction.

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CRM Company Airlines Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Ctrip management was concerned, however, that allowing employees to work from home could have a negative impact on their performance, so they wanted to test the policy before rolling it out to the entire company. Getting Work Done (20-Minute Manager Series). Leadership & Managing People Book. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

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Policies Call Center Attitude Survey Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

It is the same card he used to buy the plane ticket and book the hotel. As Jo Coombs, Managing Director at OgilvyOne, London, observes, “I don’t think it can just be one or the other. When sales managers saw a rush of customers, they could put more people on the front desk.

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COO Planning Metrics Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

By forcing organizations to clearly articulate their goals and then to rigorously judge their decisions by those metrics, experimental tests can help managers avoid costly mistakes and can open up the consideration of other possible solutions. Change management Human resources Operations' That’s where experimental testing comes in.

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Flextime Call Center Human Resources CRM 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Initially rebuffed, he flew to Boston and called again only to be told the professor was still unavailable. Finally, he said, "I am staying at the XYZ hotel and will wait here as many days as necessary to see him." In a few minutes, the secretary called back and arranged an appointment for the next day.

McGregor 8

McGregor Human Resources Retail Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. They find new life instead of old age. She goes from being outsourced, to becoming a resource. Here too, Marigold's Sonny has some wisdom to impart.

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Outsourcing Film Hotels Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.” As any manager knows, a generic-sounding list of values won’t move the culture needle unless leadership brings it to life.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Large call centers are pioneers in this area — for years, they’ve tracked the number of calls and breaks employees take and the customer ratings for each call. Talent recruiters and managers will also want to consider factors such as costs, ethics, and user experience. Web scraping.

Ethics 8

Ethics Emotional Intelligence Benchmarking Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

I stayed in a hotel in the middle of the city, and had to meet the client at his factory location that was quite far away. Once management teams understand the behaviors that are driven by their measurement and reward systems, they should calibrate to make sure they are incentivizing exactly the behaviors they want from their people.

Incentives 8

Incentives System Cost Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

In one set of studies, currently in working paper format, we found that minority customers — blacks and Asians — regularly receive worse customer service than whites in ways that are not immediately obvious to onlookers (or even managers). Specifically, we audited 6,000 hotels in the U.S. Map employee-customer touchpoints.

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Company Comparison Airlines Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When making a purchase decision, customers use an average of six different channels, which are often managed by different parts of the organization. The marketing team at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Group also offers a good example of cross-functional cooperation in action.

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8