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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. We got you covered.

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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

Augmented reality operates by transforming data and analytics into information and images which are overlaid on the real world. According to the Harvard Business Review , investment spending on AR technology looks set to reach $60 billion in 2020. India’s Ministry of Tourism has partnered with a travel tech start-up called OutsiteVR.

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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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Consulting in South Africa – what to expect

Tom Spencer

Consultants in the rainbow nation have continued to operate efficiently and effectively during the Covid pandemic. They are temporary responses to the pandemic, rather than trends that will become part of normal operations after the COVID pandemic comes to an end. The consulting industry is surviving during these uncertain times.

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The Big Baby Boomer Exodus: How to Respond to the Loss of Experienced Talent

Granite Leadership Strategies

Thirty-five million Boomers will retire between 2000 and 2020, and in the decade after that, another twenty-three million will join them. As a consequence, you’re going to have a hard time meeting your clients’ needs, unless you have a plan in place and operating now. On the other hand, many will seek more than a leisurely retirement.

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Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan; Self-Driving Trucks on German Autobahn; Millions of Truck and Taxi Driver Jobs will Vanish in US by 2025

MishTalk

I predicted robot taxis and trucks by 2020. Autonomous taxis will operate in test mode next year with a goal of full production by 2020. is aiming to commercialize its driverless transportation service by 2020. That steering wheel will be gone by 2020. The future has arrived, at least in Japan. But here we are.