Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Technology and IT Job Opportunities As a result of the emergence of Silicon Slopes , Utah’s tech scene has gained national attention. Salt Lake City, in particular, hosts the headquarters of some major players, such as Wells Fargo, which runs its western operations from here.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2023

What About the Marketing Operations Considerations? Greg Kihlström is a best-selling author, speaker, entrepreneur, and currently an advisor and consultant to top companies on marketing technology, customer experience, and digital transformation initiatives as Principal and Chief Strategist at GK5A.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 25, 2021

Recent research from Oxford University highlights the vulnerability of low-skilled workers to automated technologies, with this vulnerability exacerbated by a pandemic that has accelerated the pace of digital transformation. ” Accelerating trends.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 9, 2023

These rising costs prove particularly problematic for the tradable sector because these businesses must compete with those operating elsewhere, in lower-cost places,” the researchers explain. The study indicates that venture capital for the technology sector exacerbates pay inequality in the broader economy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Facing interconnected operational issues, members of the eight-person senior leadership team were turning against one another. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) Board of Directors. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer.

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CO2

JUNE 28, 2010

These room systems have been somewhat complex to operate and typically require expensive dedicated networks or quality of service enhanced bandwidth. Sometimes that is the company meeting room but often times it is at their desk, home office, hotel room, or even a coffee shop! Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 18, 2020

Whether you run a solo business out of your home, are the night receptionist at a hotel, or are president of the company, innovation is your competitive advantage. In the age of digital disruption, technology, and dizzying speed of change, the key to success is simply to be more human.” Tamara Ghandour.

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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 would say overall we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future. About the Author.

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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. What followed the remainder of the day on 9/11 was a combination of heroic and eerie.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Marriott recently teamed up with Amazon to offer a hospitality version of the e-commerce giant’s Echo devices in select hotel rooms. Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Keith Ferrazzi – #1 bestselling author of Never Eat Alone and Whose Got Your Back, expert in strategic consulting and training to increase sales and performance, formerly CMO Starwood Hotels and Deloitte. Mike Sursock – Head of Operations Group at Baring Private Equity Asia. Pooneh Mohajer – Inc. Feyzi Fatehi – Inc.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

 He is struggling to understand why it is that HR is not considered a core function of a an organization like sales, marketing, or operations when it is afforded the opportunity to "direct, deliver, and develop" the employee talent necessary for the company to achieve its goals.  Why?  Why?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth. For example, a hotel or restaurant chain might measure the average time between remodeling projects as an important driver of health.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Prior to the age of instant communications, intelligence operatives usually targeted international travelers who were known diplomats, military personnel or government contractors — essentially, those individuals most likely to carry sensitive information. In the parlance of intelligence operatives, this activity is called elicitation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers. Airbnb is the one exception.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

For each of our various stops along the way, we reserved a room at a Howard Johnson hotel. We knew that all across the country these hotels were decorated with exactly the same wall colors, lamps, and bedspreads. Then on the third night, we checked into yet another Howard Johnson hotel. The trip seemed to be going well.

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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. Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. And they’re not all that interested in the consistency and reliability offered by the name-brand hotels their parents patronized. That’s an enormous mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?” None of the renters pay hotel or tourist taxes. What Can a Company Do?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. These firms also had higher-rated processes for innovation. Director Recruitment and Skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Under the banner of Star Alliance, these companies started sharing resources such as sales offices, maintenance facilities, operational staff, and seating capacity. Scalability of operations. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. How are APIs different from alliances?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

In some cities, for example, sharing economy services have been banned under laws that prohibit unlicensed hotels, taxicabs, and other professional services. The company now operates in 190 countries and 28,000 cities, and its founders expect the service to grow to 100 million annual bookings and revenue of $1 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

It’s used to design and develop just about any product you can think of, from consumer goods to industrial equipment – or any service or experience ranging from retail customer service interactions to luxury hotel stays. This represents a truly disruptive management and operating model. Innovation Operations'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Digital technology has been roiling markets and disrupting companies for more than two decades, but despite that lengthy history, incumbents are still struggling to enact and deliver on digital transformations. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Accor, which is opening its online booking platform to independent hotels offers a good case.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. In Washington, business as usual.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. These companies had to do something.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

While a vanilla version of a software application can be okay (and many corporations use standard versions of major vendors’ ERP software), any choice should be a business decision made by business managers for operational and strategic reasons. But what if you wish to stay at a boutique hotel that is not a partner?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

based Hotel Tonight , a last-minute online-booking service founded in 2010. First, she had to persuade many hotels in Spain to sign up for the service, often by conducting individual sales calls. Let’s consider first the example of Blink Booking , which Rebeca Minguela started in 2011 after graduating from HBS.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

For us, applying technology in a totally new way — to reserve and open the cars — was a key enabler of this new market segment. Founded back in 2000, Zipcar effectively modeled how technology could be applied to open up entirely new markets, as well as new ways of using existing assets. Or telcos about WhatsApp.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Now that technology allows us to work anywhere, on any device, work is something people do — not just a place to which they go. This shift demands that businesses manage and operate so that they can attract the right people, retain them, and ensure they can do their best work. Sponsor Content from GoToMeeting.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Many businesses have shut down, with many more having to drastically alter their operations to support social distancing or new patterns of consumer behavior. There is scarcely an activity that has not been affected in some way, and our professional life has been no exception. Unnecessary hurdles. “Much of that is by sheer necessity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Technology companies signed up and supported them. Kenyan groups understand frugal engineering suitable for the local market and are carefully adapting mobile technologies with African flavors. Today, most mobile payment firms operating in Africa have Kenyan origins. In the hotel where I stayed, I met some U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Economic activities centered around online platforms, where independent sellers can offer goods or services to customers, are attracting significant consumer attention and spending, according to new data from the National Technology Readiness Survey* (NTRS), which has tracked technology behaviors and beliefs in the U.S. since 1999.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

But all assets are not created equal, especially as the technological landscape changes. Even when these firms rely on physical assets, like cars for Uber, they own the technology, not the physical asset. Digital native upstarts are gutting traditional industries one at a time, leveraging scalable technology and participative networks.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

One of the oldest business models in the world is using new technology to trample traditional businesses, drive innovation, and create new and immense sources of value. They operate platforms that make it easy and efficient for participants to connect and exchange value. And it’s not just these humongous companies.

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