Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

They will continue to propel global travel and commerce. Despite major turbulences (like the one of 2014), OPEC has successfully managed the supply/demand in the past. We should never underestimate the potential for technological innovation. They span the globe and power the modern infrastructure of travel and commerce.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 20, 2019

The data shows that ridesharing grew by 46% in the city’s five boroughs between 2014 and 2017. A new study from the University of Connecticut aims to redress the balance by tapping into data from New York City’s Taxi and local taxi regulator the Limousine Commission to explore the ridesharing landscape in New York.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

That’s what Narayana Health (NH) did in 2014 by opening a hospital in the Cayman Islands — Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI) — which was close to America but outside its regulatory ambit. As we explain in Reverse Innovation in Health Care , Narayana Health’s founder, Dr. Devi Shetty, wanted to disrupt U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Investment bankers are giddy at the prospect of increased M&A activity in 2014. 2014 will be the year of the “business remix.” A decline in economic uncertainty in 2014 will now support bolder strategic moves by managers. Interest in “innovation,” on the other hand, has risen more strongly and continues unabated.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As a traveler, I can’t do this every day. It’s so unusual that customers will set the meeting, and then talk about how innovative it was. Talk travel. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. I venture out to a coffee shop and an early morning meeting, and oh, by the way , I have coffee. Talk family.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Airbnb lets spare room owners make money out of their idle asset and makes the asset easily accessible for more travelers. The idea of offering your spare room on the web is not new, but with Airbnb you don’t have to create your own website and hope that Google-searching travelers find you.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

In 2014 I will intensify the program and the process until there are 500 certified advisors globally. Companies like Amazon, Zappos, and Apple have marched to the head of the class by innovating BEFORE the market did, and they set the standard for others to follow. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I didn’t want to turn down such an honor over the phone, so I travelled from Paris to Tunis to meet Prime Minister Jomaa. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2014

However, innovations in the neurosciences to developments in social media have revealed that profitability should no longer be relegated to sales figures and profit margins alone. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Our inability to influence the outcome of an event is deeply unsettling. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. In 2016, the U.S. Add to Cart.

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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. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The transition to a global digital economy in 2014 was sporadic – brisk in some countries, choppy in others. But even where cash is still king, digital marketplaces are innovating at a remarkable pace. Some may be able to overcome limitations with clever innovations and stopgap measures, while others seem to be stuck.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

For example, Uber and Grab link riders and drivers, Airbnb links hosts and travelers, and Amazon links shoppers and sellers. Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation. In other words, the initial innovations that made Uber dominant also left it vulnerable. job websites Indeed and Glassdoor.)

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Since China opened up, the nation has travelled through different stages of development. As the impact of the labor bonanza and capital-led phases begins to fade, productivity growth in China must increasingly come from the quality of innovation and management expertise at the organizational level. ” chart below).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In fact, while the total tourism market in Amsterdam grew 19 percent from 2009 to 2014, the Heineken Experience grew 143 percent. In 2014, more than 740,000 visitors toured the historic brewery. They can permanently or temporarily showcase marketing campaigns and product innovations. ” Consumers live in an HD world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

That’s the management goal that Tony Hseih, founder of e-commerce giant Zappos, aims to achieve by the end of 2014. The social animals who travel in packs care about two things: First, who is dominant? Not exactly fertile ground for collaboration and innovation. Radically flat. And second, who likes me?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

In 2014, almost half of all physicians put significant restrictions on the time they would spend with salespeople, and approximately two-thirds said they prefer to get information through digital methods. The first “traveling salesmen” used the railroad and then the automobile to broaden their geographic reach.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

It is little surprise that direct employer-purchasing of bundled care is a burgeoning area of healthcare payment innovation. HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

billion initiative to build a country-wide fiber optic network that will connect an additional 160 million Indians by 2014. As in China several years ago, there's a reluctance to pay for goods using the Web; most of today's online transactions are in the travel industry (representing 87 percent of a $6.3

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Customers can tweet at JetBlue with questions or problems, and the account helps keep JetBlue front of mind for its followers, even when they’re not traveling. Starbucks stopped accepting the Square payment system in late 2014. Airline JetBlue has turned its Twitter account into a highly responsive, 24/7 customer service line.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

To name some obvious examples, eBay, Google, Amazon, and Orbitz have each in their own way reversed traditional requirements that the customer travel – to a garage sale, library, bookstore, or travel agency – to obtain a good or service. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The good news is that multiple employers are already innovating in these areas. is an innovator in this area. In 2014, IKEA decided to raise its minimum wage and peg it to MIT’s living-wage calculator , which led to a 5% improvement in retention in less than six months. There is also a business case for raising wages.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

This is why Upworthy provides $1,000 vacation bonuses — which can only be used to pay for travel-and-relaxation-related expenses. Fortune named Xactly among the 50 Best Small and Medium-size companies to work for in 2014. It seems to be working.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Cadillac’s “ The Only Way to Travel ” campaign in the 90’s). For example, recall Cadillac’s 2014 Super Bowl commercial featuring a busy and leisure-deprived businessman lampooning those who enjoy long vacations. Finally, we were curious about how this might vary between cultures.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

They examined nearly 2,200 startups who were created between 1990 and 2014. They raised more money and were acquired at higher valuations; however, they did not innovate more. Rather than allowing ideas and innovation to thrive anywhere in the world, it has resulted in most startups basing themselves in the same places.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In 2014, I applied for and received a grant from The W. Edwards Deming Institute [The Institute makes 5 travel grants available each year to study the Deming Collection at the Library of Congress. My business would be to advise SME on how to be sustainable in the long term applying quality principles right from the very beginning.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

"Training is a funny thing," James Sanders, Manager of Innovation at Deloitte Consulting, told me recently. "No billion business by 2016, and 70 percent of Global 2000 businesses will be managing at least one "gamified" application or system by 2014. The technology research firm Gartner , Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

In 2014, Interbrand placed a valuation of the brand at $107.43 Internally, their businesses are organized into seven categories: Entertainment, Health & Wellness, Leisure, Money, People & Planet, Telecom & Tech and Travel. The Google brand is one of the most valuable brands in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Meanwhile their short ranges, low speeds and limited payloads don’t detract from their value because the people using these vehicles weren’t traveling very far or very fast or hauling very much to begin with. But these people miss the point: China is actually one of the largest EV markets in the world, if you know where to look.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

In his first four months in office, he put his signature to 403 documents, 245 of which were approvals for travel for himself and his appointees. growth in late 2014 to a 2.5% By forcing the government to remove institutional barriers to competition and innovation the deal will create a sound basis for economic growth and development.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap. Innovation in Cities. Social impact bonds could be one of the most innovative and effective. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role. When Prime Minister Modi assumed power in 2014, he put digital transformation at the center of his plans. To collect the check she would have needed to travel to a government office.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In 2014, the U.S. On July 30, 2014, exactly 13 months after retiring as P&G’s Chairman and CEO, McDonald was sworn in as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. In my first national press conference, in September 2014, I gave out my cell phone number and my email address, and so I get emails and calls from veterans every day.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. .” What do frequent travelers do when they first check in to their rooms?

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