Lead Change Blog

APRIL 2, 2019

Steve shares: “As we climb the corporate ladder we ‘forget,’ intentionally or not, to say hello to the many foundational employees who keep the business running; the restaurant dishwasher, hotel housekeeper, mail room clerk, or department store stock person. How could your team benefit from e-learning?”

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

I’ve found this imagining technique—walking through what lies ahead, acclimating hearts and minds to the unexpected—an essential leadership tool. Leaders must shelter those challenging nonconformists and mavericks who make institutions uncomfortable; otherwise, you wash out innovation. I matched personalities to anticipated tasks.

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Curious Cat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Paying close attention to customer’s jobs to be done is a powerful tool. Photo by a colleague of mine at Hexawise in his Japanese hotel room. In many hotels the mirrors in the bathroom are obstructed after a shower. 2007) – Stated Versus Revealed Preference – Innovation Strategy. Continue reading →.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 25, 2021

A business traveler was staying in the Omni Hotel in San Diego when he discovered he didn’t have any collar stays for his dress shirts. He expressed his dilemma to a hotel employee who, after suggesting several alternatives, came up with the perfect solution.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Company retreats can be an important tool for strengthening teamwork, improving communication, and boosting morale within a company. It can be a chance for employees to step outside of their usual routines and think creatively, which can lead to new innovations and opportunities for the company.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

I would appreciate it if my leave request is approved at the earliest to move forward with my flight and hotel bookings. Whether you want to stay up-to-date on HR news , read in-depth HR articles, or find new ideas on strategy, innovation, and leadership, The HR Digest Magazine is here to suit your needs and help you stay more informed. .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

At Dorchester Collection of ultra-luxury hotels, we use big data and analytics to help us improve our guest offerings and marketing. Our tool, Metis, analyzes data from online reviews and social media to uncover problems and opportunities. For instance, last year Metis looked at customer sentiment about Parisian luxury hotels.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 16, 2020

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. Provide Innovative Service. To do this, you need to embrace innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science. Provide “Worthless” Rewards.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Jamming has become a popular way to unearth innovations — bringing together people of many different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm around a company's competitive challenges, expressed as "problem statements." If your company is one, you may be interested in our experience at the European Center for Strategic Innovation.

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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?” Yet those very weaknesses give startups an overwhelming advantage in innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. As innovation consultant Pete Maulik told me, “It’s time to switch from here they come to this is how we’re going to win.” The New Tools of Marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

All too often, much-touted “revolutionary” innovations offer only incremental benefits at best; at worst, they are a costly distraction. Marriott, for example, uses digital technology to streamline the hotel experience for its consumers, particularly its high-value business travelers.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. A community of travelers help us select hotels that meet our personal preferences thanks to Trip Advisor. Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

This idea of peer-to-peer commerce, or the "sharing economy" as it is sometimes known, has spawned a new breed of innovations. In some cities, for example, sharing economy services have been banned under laws that prohibit unlicensed hotels, taxicabs, and other professional services. million in hotel taxes or registered as businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Airbnb is similarly alluring — lower prices for more space than most hotel rooms. Similarly, Airbnb hosts rarely install the protections required at hotels, such as sprinklers and fire escapes. Zenefits’ recently-ousted CEO even created a tool that enabled its agents to skip state-mandated online training courses.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

These two changes alone allow a lone innovator in Austin to build a world class product in China and ship it to Berlin — and that’s a revolution for someone with a good idea. Using such tools, companies that embrace economies of unscale compete with far larger competitors. Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

We need a new model — one that is scalable but accommodates the uniqueness of each leader's techniques; one that is stable enough to permit the training of hundreds of leaders at once but dynamic enough to incorporate and distribute new practices and other innovations in real time. But is that possible? The answer is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Nurturing customer loyalty requires a better understanding of its nature, and the nature of loyalty depends on the economics of the business: loyalty to automobiles and mobile phones is qualitatively and quantitatively different than loyalty to hotels and airlines. Who is truly more valuable to an airline or hotel chain?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2015

When one of us (Walker) helped developed the idea that became Priceline.com, the challenge was to solve a decades-long problem: how could airplanes and hotels fill their last, otherwise empty and perishable rooms and seats while holding the line on the price and profitability of most bookings?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

We need a new model — one that is scalable but accommodates the uniqueness of each leader's techniques; one that is stable enough to permit the training of hundreds of leaders at once but dynamic enough to incorporate and distribute new practices and other innovations in real time. But is that possible? The answer is yes.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Business Improv: Experiential Learning Exercises to Train Employees to Handle Every Situation with Success by Val and Sarah Gee The secret to business growth is right before your eyes – it’s the creativity and innovation percolating in each one of your employees every minute of every day. Business Improv !

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?” Disruptive innovation theory expands your view, increasing the odds that you spot important trends early. Of course, the more places you look, the more things you see. billion versus $2.3

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Instead, he says it often pays to focus on bread-and-butter marketing (like direct mail) or even on technical innovations of the past few years that are effective, but less novel (like mobile websites). A year ago, I traveled to Tissa's Inn , a small, charming hotel in that seaside community.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

We now have research to show that companies need to embrace the core innovations of the collaborative economy if they want to thrive in the era of Kickstarter, Uber and Taskrabbit. Cosmo Hotel lets guests save on the cost of a big night out by making it easy for them to rent a dress from Rent the Runway, instead of buying their own.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Afterwards, the hotel concierge furiously worked three phones to get taxi cabs to appear for the 15 people who were waiting with growing impatience. Based on our field work applying Clayton Christensen’s foundational research on disruptive innovation, we look at potential disruptors’ performance in three critical areas.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

An environment where employees demand a seamless work experience no matter where they are and the tools to make that happen. Companies that can build and protect strong cultures that foster diversity, collaboration, and innovation, while supporting work-life balance and flexibility, will clearly gain the competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

One of the largest hotel chains in the world showed me the questions it got from big corporate customers — the ones deciding where to buy hundreds of rooms for big events. The list included multiple questions about whether the hotel chain purchased or used renewable energy. In addition, the story you tell customers can affect sales.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

FL: All of the existing travel sites work well if you know what you're looking for — a Chinese restaurant near a train station, or a hotel — but planning a trip is an aspirational process, and there's a whole element of discovery that's not covered anywhere. Tell us about the opportunity you saw in the travel space.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

FL: All of the existing travel sites work well if you know what you're looking for — a Chinese restaurant near a train station, or a hotel — but planning a trip is an aspirational process, and there's a whole element of discovery that's not covered anywhere. Tell us about the opportunity you saw in the travel space.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Airbnb is not only challenging the biggest hotel chains but also challenging the bureaucracy, going after the New York City housing and tax laws that stand it its way. Now, with a valuation of $10 billion, Airbnb has the capital to take on the hotel industry and its supporters globally.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

C-DOT had two floors of a five-star hotel as their workspace. Repair completed, he packed up his tools and prepared to leave — both the boardroom and the mess he’d made while making the repair. I love the story told about Sam Pitroda, then the head of C-DOT, India’s telecommunications enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

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. Here, we use our employee surveys as a tool for culture change. Employee engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

The platforms created by Uber and Lyft (who invented the idea) have redefined what it means to be a taxi and a taxi driver, and Airbnb has done the same with hotels and hoteliers. In a world struggling to cope with incessant disruption brought on by fast-paced technical innovation, climate change, urbanization, and globalization, Peers, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the country's main English-language newspaper. VW: Tooling up for sustainability ". The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. Batteries still drag 'green vehicle' effort ".

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