The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2020

. “People would pay for these experiences like they pay airlines, hotels and tourist spots during regular travel. ” The next step for the project is to both seek investment to further develop the technology and secure partners from across the hospitality, tourism, and technology industry to bring the technology to market.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Visions are values projected outward to the future. ” Many months and many trips later, I called home from my hotel room. Values are visions turned inward. Both reflect and create each other in a synergistic — often unconscious — interrelationship. To see it, we need to be it. Our values hierarchy is a lengthy one.

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Rogers Hotels Self-aware Cooper 75

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 18, 2013

Sitting in a hotel lobby in Baltimore Maryland in month two of a three month partner program with Project Ascent , coaching and facilitating a team building and leadership process for managers and supervisors at McCormick Spice …. I took some time to reflect upon the day.

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Team Building Team Hotels Leadership 112

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES. Corporate CEOs.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Example : Hotel Housekeeping Staff Managers are approaching employees on their lunch break to assign tasks, discuss changes and give directions. Laura MacLeod created From The Inside Out Project® with all levels of employment in mind to assist in maintaining a harmonious workplace. About the Author.

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Osborne Hotels Brainstorming Objective 50

Ron Edmondson

MAY 8, 2012

We all have a part of ourselves that wants to play it safe and hold back when it comes to our personal creativity and innovation. Fear holds us back from personal breakthroughs and innovation. ” -Conrad Hilton (Hilton Hotels). “ Is there a project you have been dragging your feet on? We all have the fear of failing.

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Human Capital Godin Hotels Creativity 55

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Economist Corporate Network in Singapore about innovation in Asia. But what I really wanted to discuss were the three biggest trends I see affecting innovation in the region. A recent OECD study projected that spending by Asian middle class consumers will have grown from $4.9

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Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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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. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

“Organizations need to keep changing, adapting, and innovating,” he says. Julie Wittes Schlack, SVP of Innovation and Design at C Space, the global consulting company, knew that her company needed to streamline its client services, but she wasn’t sure how to get the idea off the ground. ” says Julie.

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Project Restructuring Hotels Case Study 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

For example, a hotel or restaurant chain might measure the average time between remodeling projects as an important driver of health. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. As with the other measures, what is important varies by industry.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

To do that, the hotel needs to know you on a much deeper level by leveraging data and turning that data into information it can use to deliver a customized experience. That downgrade will mean a lot to a travel agent or a meeting planner; the black mark may cost the hotel future revenue. The Ratings Catch-22. Observation.

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Hotels Travel Porter CRM 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

A community of travelers help us select hotels that meet our personal preferences thanks to Trip Advisor. Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive. Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation.

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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

JULY 19, 2013

Your projections for the business should not be wildly optimistic so you can manage your expectations and those of any partners. With Getaroom, I understood the lodging market is massive and knew a niche player could capture a large amount of revenue, but my initial projections were modest and I watched expenses closely.

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Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Judson Manor is a gracious former 1920s luxury hotel near The Cleveland Clinic, Case Western University, and many of the museums and arts institutions in Cleveland, Ohio. In a similar vein, a new group of innovators is finding efficiencies not in separating people by age but by bringing them together. HBR/Martin Barraud/Getty Images.

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Education Absenteeism Efficiency Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

For instance, Snapchat’s cofounders, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, started working together on a website for students called Future Freshman, among other projects, while at Stanford University. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

There’s an important lesson in this for innovators seeking to create new growth among customer segments that don’t constitute the core of today’s markets: If you don’t go, you can’t know. I remember one memorable project review between a client team and a top executive in a global health care company. Innovation Leadership'

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Wireless Class Hotels Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

It was the stuff of Silicon Valley lore : Employees from across the company took a break from their regular projects to develop mind-blowing ideas about artificial intelligence over an intense 24-hour period. The most skilled innovators put resources behind their strongest pitches and hone them further after the hackathon ends.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

Today Dubai also boasts the world’s tallest building, artificial islands, the first hotel with a rain forest, and the largest indoor theme park on earth. In the same way, investments in landmark digital projects that significantly enhance customer experience can help launch wider digital transformations. Insight Center.

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Planning Agility System Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Results were projected to the U.S. “Explorers” are the most innovative and optimistic about technology and are early adopters; they make up 41% of on-demand consumers. GM’s investment and partnership with Lyft, and hotel giant Accor’s recent acquisition of Airbnb competitor Onefinestay are recent examples.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2015

We attribute much of our success to making patients and frontline health care professionals the true architects of the project. I’d like to share the features of our innovative planning process, with an eye toward helping other institutions adopt the elements that will work for them. Restructuring the process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

HBR: Hack/Reduce started out as a side project for you, but it sounds like it has real legs? If you look at travel, it's an equally large data set — and I'm not talking about flights and hotels, because no one travels for the flight and hotel. It's amazing what people will do in a day with computing power and data sets.

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Travel Hotels Wilde Fashion 14

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

OCTOBER 15, 2012

HBR: Hack/Reduce started out as a side project for you, but it sounds like it has real legs? If you look at travel, it's an equally large data set — and I'm not talking about flights and hotels, because no one travels for the flight and hotel. It's amazing what people will do in a day with computing power and data sets.

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Travel Hotels Wilde Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

One of the driving principles of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation is that everyone wins when everyone shares. As you design your hack or start to think about your innovation story, the first question to ask yourself is: does it tackle a root cause or a deeply embedded pathology of organizations?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

C-DOT had two floors of a five-star hotel as their workspace. Establish time limits for accomplishing unpleasant tasks, a schedule for completing less-than-thrilling projects and reward yourself for achieving these goals. Make sure your team sees you occasionally taking on these tasks. Inexperience has the advantage of fresh eyes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

Office reformers of today point to trends like hotelling , co-working , and (my personal favorite) working from home — worthy endeavors, all. George Nelson, Herman Miller's design director, was so disgusted that he left the project well before the Action Office II went to market. the cubicle has become universally loathed.

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Hotels Open-book Trends Video 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Improving performance by investing in new high-profile marketing campaigns and product and process innovations may be the strategy of a brave few (whom, research and history tell us, will reap disproportionate benefits in the recovery). If you run hotels, offer WiFi in the lobby for five hours after checkout. Don't opt out of the game.

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How To Trends Hotels Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

In his recent bestseller about the hotel industry, Heads in Beds , Jacob Tomsky writes about his early days doing valet parking and other unskilled jobs. We hear all the time from innovation and startup gurus that we have to be “willing to embrace failure.” What that really means is you must be able to afford to fail.

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Career Long-term Short-term Reputation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Since the founding in 2007, Fellows have not only audited classes but developed projects in which they can give back to society.

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Freedman Leadership Class Hotels 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. Especially if we are as innovative about engaging the assets of this population as we have been historically at finding ways to write them off.

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Outsourcing Film Hotels Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2011

For instance, it is not uncommon that when projects fail the top boss is the last to know. She has not been privy to problems and issues plaguing the project. For example, the health care industry has studied hotel and food companies for lessons in hospitality and food preparation. But think further afield.

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Executive Coaching Hotels Health Care Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

In my hotel, the TV remote controller was marked in Chinese. Africa has become a place where financial institutions are financing real estate projects. loses its abilities to create and innovate, within a generation it will cease to lead the world. There's a growing middle class, expanded GDP, and general optimism in the region.

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Real Estate Education GDP Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

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. They’ll be operating from home, the field, and project and customer locations, as well as from hotels, airports, and trains.

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