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HP Headed to Hotel California?

Women on Business

that focuses on customers and innovation. Deciding that personal computing is not a lucrative market is like spitting on small businesses. I think that so much could have been done and couple this decision with the move to pull the touchpad off the market so quickly and you have a strategic disaster.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) Board of Directors.

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7 Strategies for Building an Industrial Laundry Business

Strategy Driven

Take Your Marketing Online. We are living in a digital era, and hence, online marketing strategies are promising. Utilize a variety of online tools available, including social media and email marketing. Rather, you will be serving business clients, including hospitals, hotels, salons, and restaurants, among others.

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Competing with Platforms That Ignore the Law

Harvard Business Review

Airbnb is similarly alluring — lower prices for more space than most hotel rooms. Meanwhile, Zenefits modernizes human resources workflows with slick software to replace outdated paper. Similarly, Airbnb hosts rarely install the protections required at hotels, such as sprinklers and fire escapes.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. The trick for entrepreneurs and digital innovators, then, is to use a bricolage strategy to obtain modern digital infrastructure and tools to transform existing businesses or conceive and build new ones.

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How Employers Can Help Solve the Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

The Hilton Worldwide hotel chain documents every employee's specific skills, including languages, education, experience, property experiences, local market connections, and affiliations with boards and non-profits. Innovations make it easier to find high-performing people quickly and more cheaply than traditional practices.

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GE’s Culture Challenge After Welch and Immelt

Harvard Business Review

Other times, shifts may be driven by disruptions and disrupters like the one happening in the transportation and hotel markets right now thanks to the likes of Uber and Airbnb. In the first part of this century, innovation became the priority. New industries were spawned, some existing ones became obsolete, and others (e.g.,

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