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The Future Of Business Travel

The Horizons Tracker

Where previously workers would meet face-to-face, the shutdown in travel and of workplaces has forced so many of us to converse virtually instead. With conferences also heading online, the business travel market has ground to a halt as people have learned to communicate without jumping on a plane to do so. the researchers say. “We

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How to Keep Business Travel Costs Down

Strategy Driven

It’s hard to keep people accountable, hard to clarify what you mean when you aren’t on-site, and harder still to come up with innovative solutions when you’re working through a screen. Travelling to solve and fix these issues is essential, but not every company can currently afford it or find a flight to get them where they need to be.

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3 Budget-Friendly Ways to Boost Brand Awareness

Strategy Driven

Any small business wants to boost brand awareness, but often they do not have the budget to create and launch a nationwide marketing campaign. The good news is that there is another way, and even small businesses can boost brand awareness without chipping away too much of their budget. So what if there was another way?

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Encouraging Cross-Border Trade And Cooperation

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, the Öresund region connects Sweden and Denmark, and is often cited as a perfect example of international cooperation, but even this region produces relatively few innovation-based results, bar a few notable exceptions, such as in medicine. This increases the travel time between locations and acts as a barrier to trade.

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Road Quality Has An Impact On Trade Volume

The Horizons Tracker

They highlight that despite many developing countries spending around 3% of their annual budget on transport, this rises to around 10% in many developing countries. What’s more, travel times are also 28% longer when driving between countries than within a country. “This is the so-called ‘border effect.’

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Unlocking Creativity: Are These Creativity-Inhibiting Mindsets Holding You Back?

Leading Blog

We find that while we talk about the need for creativity and innovation, employees don’t feel supported or inspired by their leaders and were not given the time or resources to develop new ideas. They expect disciplined execution—on time and under budget. Travel helps to spark creativity as does creating temporal distance.

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Leadership and Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Playing for parity by traveling the traditional path of best practices just ensures one thing; you will spend great amounts of time and money failing slowly, publicly, and painfully. Again, innovation requires deviation from the norm in all areas, but mostly in what you do and how you do it.