Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This year's AGM was a testament to the dedication and commitment of our members, as they gathered to discuss and reflect on the events and activities of the past year and to look ahead to the forthcoming year. COVID-19 has changed this perspective completely.

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Crisis Management Committee Hotels Webinar 52

Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

To quickly set the scene, I was the SVP of Operations for a 1,100 employee cable television company based in 4 states in the Rocky Mountain west. And by making these personal front counter connections, it only deepened my commitment to make sure we were providing them the best service we possibly could. Commitment.

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Succession Leadership Commitment Travel 253

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. He can tell you what’s moving in the right direction—and where we’re getting loose and need to tighten up operations. Obviously, if you’re not running a hotel or an airport, you probably don’t employ a shoeshine guy. Let’s be candid: That’s part of the job.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 92

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I had decided to go over and stay at a hotel on 9/10 in order to make the early morning meeting and beat the commute. When I walked out of the hotel the first plane had just hit and smoke was coming from the tower. We’ll never take their commitment lightly. God bless this country and forgive us if we ever fail to remember.

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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 352

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Blog Maslow Talent Management Human Resources 124

Next Level Blog

JULY 14, 2010

But, hey, maybe you’re more committed to your craft than I am. travelling from the airport to the hotel, checking in, mini-bar policy, restaurant selection and dining rules)? Summer, when the road warrior, business travel divas deign to disrupt their routine to fly with their families on vacation.

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Travel Blog Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 236

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. I ended up with that job and found out what it really means to lead in a high turbulence environment.

How To 50

How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 14, 2015

I checked into my hotel in Casper on a scenic, caffeinated, and musically induced Rocky Mountain high, ready to give it my best the next morning. But there are two parts to this bargain we are striking today – we must both commit to greatness, and the responsibility that comes with it. You’ve got a reason to live.

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Follow-up Hotels Company Retail 150

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. This ultimately required greater centralization and limiting local operator flexibility and discretion.

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Hotels Yield Management Discount Price 10

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. This ultimately required greater centralization and limiting local operator flexibility and discretion.

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Hotels Yield Management Discount Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

The National Labor Relations Board ruling on Tuesday that McDonald’s could be held responsible for labor conditions in its franchisees’ operations has business groups and lawyers crying foul. And if a business partner is committing labor transgressions, there are likely quality, safety, or other problems lurking somewhere, too.

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Supply Chain Compliance Franchising How To 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Furthermore, once we start down a path and invest resources in it, we tend to justify our past investments by continuing down that path even when new information suggests that the path is unwise, a phenomenon known as the escalation of commitment. Change management Human resources Operations' Take the issue of productivity.

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Flextime Call Center Human Resources CRM 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Identify and commit to a few crucial “nondelegable” decisions that must be kicked up to a senior manager. One such decision should concern circumstances under which customers are forcibly expelled from the premises, whether an airplane cabin, a hotel lobby, or a sports venue.

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Company Airlines Meyer Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

I experienced a similar asymmetry when a credit-card company informed me that the terms and conditions for claiming hotel rewards had changed. For example, the number of miles needed for a free night in a top-category hotel room had gone from 125,000 to 160,000. "If So that''s how I spent the next 31 minutes.

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Airlines Hotels Loyalty Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Consider Walmart’s significant commitments to energy efficiency and renewables. 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. ” Third, the brand value of walking the talk is significant.

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CEO ROI Environment Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

It is the same card he used to buy the plane ticket and book the hotel. If it’s all about the operations then you lose sight of the customer. Rather than measuring marketing KPIs or operations KPIs, focus instead on the more customer-oriented journey KPIs, such as lifetime margin.

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COO Planning Metrics Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

First, based on the level of boldness of their corporate strategy, as measured by the degree of changes above, and extended to two measures of firm commitment to radical change,s eg how they are doing those changes at the expense of cannibalizing their current revenue and profit pools and how they are willing invest in digital technology.

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Strategy ROI Technology Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors.

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Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Fourth, begin to operate a pilot of your network business by shifting small amounts of capital (including time, talent, and money) to the new initiative. We have seen many transformations, not just of the digital variety, fail due to infighting or lack of commitment.

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Intangible Assets Business Model How To Intellectual Capital 10

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 22, 2014

Given how the focus of my speech was examining the role of charisma in leadership and how we can develop this trait to inspire and engage our employees, it would seem almost natural that the locale for this keynote was this elegant, almost regal ballroom located in one of the illustrious hotels found along Chicago’s “Magnificent Mile”.

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Charisma Leadership Conference Influence 272

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. But it probably has a more committed user base than any business launched in the last five years. As a consumer, I absolutely love Uber. It’s simple, and it works beautifully.

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Disruptive Innovation Disintermediation Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

As we move from one hotel chain to another and order the same Starbucks drink in London that we do in Shanghai or Tokyo, it can feel like just another business trip as opposed to a personally meaningful cross-cultural adventure. Too often, these whirlwind treks leave us numb. It must experiment and innovate. You and Your Team Series.

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Short-term Travel Long-term Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Finally, he said, "I am staying at the XYZ hotel and will wait here as many days as necessary to see him." Given the right conditions, employees will seek out and accept responsibility and exercise self-control, self-direction and some creativity in accomplishing the objectives to which the company and they are committed.

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McGregor Human Resources Retail Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Long before becoming CEO, in 2016, he was searching for new growth in the hypercompetitive travel reservations market, coming across a pair of small European startups with a business model opposite to Priceline’s in two key ways: Instead of taking an up-front 25% commission on a hotel reservation, the startups charged only 15% after check-out.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

.” There is often a personal connection between the family and the communities in which it operates; reputations matter to families. One client built a hotel complex in an underdeveloped area. While less adept at delegating, they can more quickly and decisively commit the organization to action.

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Long-term Short-term Reputation Incentives 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Although none are perfect, they operate in a way that generates engagement and fulfillment for their employees, delight and loyalty for their customers, positive contributions to their communities and to the environment, and excellent returns for their owners and investors. Would you share an example of a company or two leading the way?

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How To Simon Learning-by-Doing Organization 82

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Alan Kurtz, MMC’s chief operating officer, was standing off to the side, and she moved to join him, but a racer intercepted her. Market research had shown that committed maniacs like Toby were already shelling out that kind of money (sometimes more) just to travel to registration sites. “Do you work for Mendoza?”

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Case Study Brand Proposal Chief Operating Officer 8

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

Everything operated as its own unit. As you consider the HPU story, you can conclude that when you are in the transformation business, the proof isn ’ t just in the students, but the campus, staff, operations, and even the nuances. This was part of the problem at the college. Groups didn ’ t connect. Qubein puts it this way: .

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Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 70

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The exterminating company was being totally run by a telephone operator with no power over calendar, computer, or field operators. During a job interview ask hypothetical situations that give you a peephole into the person’s capacity for commitment not just “looking for a job.” No evidence; no job! Invest in High End Training.

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Airlines Hotels Operations Metrics 279

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

Perhaps the two most popular “strategies” are service excellence and operational effectiveness. Those are real choices because the opposites aren’t stupid; in fact other hotels do something that is reasonably close to the opposite of what Four Seasons does. So do a little test of your strategy before committing to it.

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Strategy Hotels Globalization Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

Hotels and airlines live on bookings from online travel agencies. Other companies benefit from intermediaries’ commitments. Platform operators are repeat players, and they’ve honed their skills through repeated dealings with their many seller-suppliers. The dispute reflects a tension found in many other industries as well.

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Airlines Hotels Constraint Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

India has been increasing its spending on infrastructure such as airports, new cities, hotels, ports, roads, bridges, hospitals, and power plants. India has added new customers at the fastest rate for Amazon in its history of operations across the world, including the U.S. India has seen growth in infrastructure spending.

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Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

There were about 10 people involved — the CEO and his direct reports — and we met for two days offsite, in a hotel, so we wouldn't be distracted. A problem in marketing might be assigned to the head of operations. I still remember the meeting that finally drove me to change how I run meetings. A strategy offsite.

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CFO CEO Hotels Strategy 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. By treating strategic investments like options, Alphabet has avoided committing too early to new businesses. Any deviation from management’s forecast meant failure, regardless of how effectively the strategy was executed. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

You have to commit to a big problem to make a big impact. Some of the best management innovations borrow from unrelated realms: Look at the Lexus car dealerships modeled on the Apple Genius Bar or the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital's four-star hotel experience. The Management 2.0

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Management Short-term Strategic Planning How To 12

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

We worked with a global hotel chain after it was divested. Not surprisingly investors wanted the hotel senior leadership team to continue with even more cost reductions. Transformative change requires an organization to change not only how it operates but, even more importantly, how people think.

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Ulrich Leadership Diversity Audience 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

It takes a systematic approach to build a systemic capability—whether that is Amazon’s logistics prowess or the near-flawless service you receive as a guest at a Four Seasons hotel. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.); So it is with innovation.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8