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How Smart Speakers Are Poised to Reinvent the Travel Industry

Harvard Business

Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. On many fronts, artificial intelligence-powered smart speakers and apps seem poised to become the world’s virtual travel agents. Worldwide, ownership exceeds 100 million units and is projected to reach 225 million by 2020.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

If the aviation industry continues down the path of high CO 2 emissions, what will happen when new aerospace markets open: sub-orbital travel, supersonic flight, and space hotels? Sub-orbital travel, popularized in 2021 by Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, is projected to become a $3.5 Billion industry by 2027. Other Trends.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. Marketing & Sales. Operations. Kearney works collaboratively with companies to transform their operations in order to gain unprecedented competitive advantage. Transportation & Travel. Communications.

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2020 Study: Why Smart People Start a Consulting Business (And What Holds Them Back)

Consulting Matters

I love actually impacting the customer's operations and providing a new prospective or process that changes the way they do business forever. Knowing that the base of what I want to offer may change throughout the course of my education and development, I'd like to have a solid grounding of my business operations. Where to start?

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How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Harvard Business

The stakes are high, with International Data Corporation estimating that global business investments in D&A will surpass $200 billion a year by 2020. D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions.

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Driverless Cars Will Change Auto Insurance. Here’s How Insurers Can Adapt

Harvard Business

Research and computer modeling conducted by Accenture in collaboration with the Stevens Institute of Technology indicates that as many as 23 million fully autonomous vehicles will be traveling U.S. highways by 2035 (out of about 250 million total cars and trucks registered in the U.S.). Planning for the Driverless Future.

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OPERA America’s Survey Shows an Industry in Freefall…

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

My ambition is to do one of these a month as a way to replace a little bit of the traveling I might have done in the past. Enhanced marketing and sales: I don’t find most of the marketing that goes on effective and most of the sales processes are outdated. Ticket sales, subscriptions, and other revenue are down, down, down!

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