Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In his famous poem, Robert Frost declared that he preferred to take “the road less travelled by.” But my father taught me well, and I decided to take the road less travelled. Try taking, as Robert Frost suggests, “the road less travelled.” Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

The demand for business travel is gender-independent, but men and women demonstrate different travel habits that impact the bottom line. We know from previous research that women react more strongly to unforeseen events and are more stressed than men when traveling for work. But what about when planning travel?

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A Reel Leadership Article In 2014, Matthew Vaughan directed the hilarious movie Kingsman: The Secret Service. Learn to use new tools/technology: You learn early in Kingsman: The Golden Circle that Charlie had a prosthetic arm. He harnesses the power of the new technology. Technology and tools are rapidly improving.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Last year Feld, who is managing director at Foundry Group and co-founder of TechStars, announced he would no longer travel for business. He equipped his Boulder offices with state-of-the-art video conferencing systems, and now holds meetings using this technology or asks business partners to travel to see him. Nothing.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. 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. I would say overall we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Recently, information technology research and advisory company Gartner compiled a list of top 10 strategic technology trends. In the pharmaceutical industry, technology is transforming the sales process. In the pharmaceutical industry, technology is transforming the sales process. Computing everywhere.

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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. LESSON: Don’t stay attached to old technology or products even though they have brought success and profit in the past. I want to write, speak, travel, learn, read, and have meaningful family time. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies. Helping to effect this reversal are any number of new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

As technology transforms our economy, one trend is getting more and more attention: the prospect that it will increasingly automate the work that we human beings do. While it’s true that technology is taking over routine tasks from many workers, it is also reshaping many supply and demand trends that drive our global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

The right technologies, however, can be incredibly valuable, driving customer satisfaction and possibly even providing a sustainable competitive advantage. Start by identifying those, and then use digital technology to alleviate them. The second lever is to use digital technology to materially improve customer service.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As Egon Zehnder’s just-released 2014 Global Board Index found, 37% of the revenue generated by companies in the S&P 500 now comes from international sources, an increase of 5.5% One of the most important of those issues is, of course, globalization. since the index was first developed in 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Since China opened up, the nation has travelled through different stages of development. That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization. China, too, needs more technological innovation. Ten Predictions for China’s Economy in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

As constant travelers and parents of a 2-year-old, we sometimes fantasize about how much work we can do when one of us gets on a plane, undistracted by phones, friends, and Finding Nemo. We race to get all our ground work done: packing, going through TSA, doing a last-minute work call, calling each other, then boarding the plane.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

Throughout the May and June rituals of Class Day celebrations and graduation ceremonies, successful members of older generations will urge this year’s crop of Millennials to pursue their dreams and, by extension, travel the same path they did. Fifth, pay greater attention to workplace dynamics, particularly around technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Who doesn’t stand in awe of the advances that science and its STEM siblings (technology, engineering, and math) have created to better our world? But since the time of Aristotle, it has also been recognized that the hard sciences and the humanities must walk side by side in governing human action.

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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. The Coca-Cola Company has seen similar success with its World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Coinciding with this is recent discussion in the business media that since “work” no longer adheres to the traditional 9-5, and technology allows us to be connected anywhere and everywhere, perhaps those longer work hours should be reconciled with more time off. People are usually still expected to be available.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2014

When we set out to see if a robot could hitchhike across Canada, we were trying to initiate discussions about trust, notions of safety, and about our attitude towards technology. Our Human-Robot-Interaction project, which was realized in the summer months of 2014, can also provide significant insights into the research field.

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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. Though none of these tweaks can be claimed to be a technological breakthrough, they have collectively helped Grab win over local consumers. job websites Indeed and Glassdoor.) “‘Why us?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

3nethra also lowers the non-medical out-of-pocket expenses for patients (loss of wages when they are away from work, the cost of travel, and room and board), the kind of expenses that deter the poor to seek medical care. Competitors used the expensive CCD technology for cameras. In 2014, in his own words, something amazing happened.

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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. We may be on a journey toward a digital planet — but we’re all traveling at different speeds. By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Over the last decade, most companies’ digital agendas have focused largely on technology — moving to cloud-based software, modernizing IT infrastructures, adding digital channels, and digitizing business processes. He left in 2014 to pursue a transformation at Airbnb.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

The Order of United Commercial Travelers , for instance, was founded to “ improve character and instill temperate habits,” and Gideon bibles were originally put in hotel rooms to help “ eliminate gambling , drinking, dirty jokes, Sunday trading and other forms of temptation peculiar to traveling (sales) men.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

The technology research firm Gartner , Inc. billion business by 2016, and 70 percent of Global 2000 businesses will be managing at least one "gamified" application or system by 2014. predicts gamification will be used in 25 percent of redesigned business processes by 2015, this will grow to more than a $2.8 How will you track success?

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Many of our target wood-burning customers lived on the outskirts of town and had no reason to travel to the central market, where our store was located. In 2014 we partnered with Greenlight Planet to take a spin at door-to-door stove selling. Instead of selling makeup or Tupperware, they sell solar lights — millions of them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

See PageFair’s 2013 and 2014 reports). Now they can selectively choose what they allow websites to put in their browsers, which are people’s main vehicles for traveling online. As did use. Before ad blocking, individuals had little choice about taking or leaving what websites gave them.

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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. One of us, Arvind Gupta, is head of technology for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP party, and has been for the past seven years.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

New technologies – and the proper use of old technologies – are a crucial part of this adaptation. In a 2014 Robert Half Technology survey of U.S. In a 2014 Robert Half Technology survey of U.S.-based In our experience at VenturePact, telecommuters tend to be self-starters and quick learners.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Two personal stories illustrate these points. They had incentives to do so, but they could easily refuse.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

At the same time, technologies like selfie sticks, Fitbits, and wearable video cameras are making people comfortable monitoring their own calorie consumption, sleep patterns, heart rate, friends, family, and daily experiences. How far from the hotel do solo travelers tend to go at night, and how does that differ by gender?

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. He had reflected deeply on the matter, as he knew that this was not a journey to be travelled in a half-spirited manner.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

From 2012 to 2014, the median home price rose by 17.3%. Department of Agriculture reported that food prices rose 31% from 2005 to 2014. The prices of most of those expenditures are rising faster than inflation. Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016.

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