Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

These companies have failed to innovate and stay ahead of the rapid changes in technology, and so have fallen by the wayside. Take the hotel industry: who would have ever thought the largest “owner” of hotels would never own any bricks and mortar buildings? They include Blackberry, Toys R Us, Blockbuster, and Kodak.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 25, 2020

that featured an industrial robotic vacuum cleaner salesman named Josh Harcus. Josh’s company makes and leases gigantic Roombas that scrub the carpets in airports and hotel hallways until they’re nice and clean. , the New York Times ran an article titled “What If Working from Home Goes on Forever?”

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Finance for the Now Normal: financial stability in the hotel industry CMI Sri Lanka recently hosted a webinar titled 'Finance for the NOW NORMAL' with Mr Nirmalan Nagendra FCMI FIH, who is a senior Hospitality Finance Professional and Consultant for KPMG. Businesses should aim for a balance of efficiency and growth.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

That is why every budding entrepreneur or potential business owner needs to identify which industries offer them a higher chance of success, and that’s the information which this article provides. Are you looking for the right industry to launch your business with higher chances of success? Hospitality industry.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As if the changes in technology haven’t left many wondering what to do next, the reaction to the COVID-19 virus has left many leaders in a kind of limbo. One day, having ducked into a luxury San Francisco hotel to avail himself of the facilities, he noticed a conference going on and poked his head in.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Malaika Myers: Our industry has evolved and experienced rapid change over the last few years and I’m incredibly proud of the way Hyatt has successfully adapted to this dynamic environment. I have held many Human Resources roles across industries at global companies. But technology know how is not enough.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 9, 2023

“Although an expanding high-tech sector may stimulate the demand for local goods and services, it can crowd out other tradable industries within the region, as it consumes human and financial capital,” the researchers explain. This category encompasses many waiters, hotel staff, and fast-food workers.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2017

People running businesses in the hospitality industry have to work hard to ensure they maintain standards. For the purpose of this post, we’re going to focus on the management of hotels. Use technology to your advantage. Firstly, all hotel managers can make their lives easier by using the latest technology.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Marriott recently teamed up with Amazon to offer a hospitality version of the e-commerce giant’s Echo devices in select hotel rooms. Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. Worldwide, ownership exceeds 100 million units and is projected to reach 225 million by 2020.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 2, 2011

In addition, deflation is causing payrolls to be slashed by five percent or more; not just in the bubble categories of construction and finance but also in manufacturing, retail, wholesale, transportation, and information technology.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. He died virtually penniless in a hotel room in New York. and Musk’s approach works well when there is a lot of technological uncertainty (can we build it?). “I I think it’s very helpful to cross-fertilize ideas from different industries.”

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) Board of Directors. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 18, 2020

Whether you run a solo business out of your home, are the night receptionist at a hotel, or are president of the company, innovation is your competitive advantage. In the age of digital disruption, technology, and dizzying speed of change, the key to success is simply to be more human.” Tamara Ghandour. Tamara Ghandour.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Especially in the tech industry. I started a boutique hotel company when I was 26 and, after 24 years as CEO, sold it at the bottom of the Great Recession, not knowing what was next. But I was an “old-school” hotel guy and had never used Airbnb. That’s when Airbnb came calling. Sounded good.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

The topic of industry disruption — “a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses” — is rife with misconceptions. Industry disruption, as Accenture research has found, is reasonably predictable. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

It’s used to design and develop just about any product you can think of, from consumer goods to industrial equipment – or any service or experience ranging from retail customer service interactions to luxury hotel stays. Singleton told me that in his industry, they call this “data-driven product management.”

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

For example, a hotel or restaurant chain might measure the average time between remodeling projects as an important driver of health. Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats. As with the other measures, what is important varies by industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

In the past few years, profits have become positive across the industry, and market caps are soaring from prior lows. Many passengers grumbled, but the impact has been undeniably positive for the industry. Imagine where the industry would be without this? Between 2001 and the end of 2008, for example, no less than 15 U.S.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

 Chip Conley, the founder of Joie de Vivre hotel chain has and shares how creating an "employee pyramid" helped him to save his company from failing during the challenging and uncertain times following 9/11.  Seth shares his thoughts on the paradox of senior management. .

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

This constantly increasing rate of technological advancement and social change is speeding up the pace of business and life itself, leaving most of us feeling time-poor. Technological deceleration , which is not giving up technology, but carefully controlling its use and instead focusing on face-to-face communication.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?” None of the renters pay hotel or tourist taxes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Although directors in certain industries are more aware of the threat of disruption, the widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Recruiting directors with technological expertise is one avenue through which boards can boost their innovative capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

It wasn’t long ago and, yet, in technology terms, it’s almost an eternity — ride- or hotel-sharing companies didn’t exist yet and the first generation of social media platforms were just hitting the mainstream. Consumer technology and its potential went largely ignored in the enterprise. A young U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. The projections worked fine for about a third of the hotels but were wildly, destructively off for another third.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Digital technology has been roiling markets and disrupting companies for more than two decades, but despite that lengthy history, incumbents are still struggling to enact and deliver on digital transformations. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Accor, which is opening its online booking platform to independent hotels offers a good case.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

In some cities, for example, sharing economy services have been banned under laws that prohibit unlicensed hotels, taxicabs, and other professional services. Airbnb''s hosts aren''t subjected to any of these rules, the industry complains, and should be. million in hotel taxes or registered as businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

The WEF is comprised of many groups, among them policy groups, civil society groups, technology pioneers, and many more. The Belvedere Hotel — probably the ritziest option on the strip — is known as a kind of "mini-Davos" itself, with many key meetings and casual get-togethers. It is cold here.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

While Gordon’s argument is often characterized as being the opposite of the one I have made in my two books about the impact of advancing automation technology on the job market (most recently, Rise of the Robots ), there are many areas in which I think we would agree. What would that mean for the hotel industry?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. All but one of these new matchmakers directly disrupted an existing platform industry. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. And something was wrong. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

For each of our various stops along the way, we reserved a room at a Howard Johnson hotel. We knew that all across the country these hotels were decorated with exactly the same wall colors, lamps, and bedspreads. Then on the third night, we checked into yet another Howard Johnson hotel. The trip seemed to be going well.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

According to MIT Sloan research , the companies that are adapting to a digital world are 26% more profitable than their industry peers. Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Customer expectations. Product enhancements.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The story of how technological progress is affecting employment — whether, in other words, the robots are eating our jobs — is clearly an important one. I believe that technological unemployment (and underemployment) is a real and growing phenomenon. He takes the argument up a level across industries.

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