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Flying High: How to Build Travel Rewards as a Consultant

Tom Spencer

If you are transitioning into consulting from school or a job in industry or government, you will likely begin traveling more than ever. Sure, maybe you have gone to a few conferences or travelled to your company’s annual meeting, but once you begin a consulting career you will be on the road much more frequently than before.

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What Business Travelers Want Most From Loyalty Programs: Stealthy Luxury

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

We’ve already established that airlines, hotels and the like really want people like me to expense our way through their wares. So let’s talk about what paying business travelers like me really want. I can request a National reservation from any admin or travel department yet roll in a real car.

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Book Review – “How the mighty fall” by Jim Collins

Tom Spencer

A fine example of a company that passed through the five stages of decline to ultimately collapse was the one popularly known as “the king of good times” – Kingfisher Airlines. Kingfisher Airlines, once known for its best in class service, on board meals, and staff courtesy fell from grace due to excessive arrogance.

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Why Every Company Should Consider Creating a “Cyber No-Fly List”

Harvard Business

The Transportation Security Administration’s machines, checkpoints, and rules are analogous to many of the security devices that enterprises use, which include network monitoring tools, firewalls, and endpoint management systems. A large enterprise easily records over 1 billion network and system events per day.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

Accurately measuring enterprise value (EV) has never been more important or challenging. Failure to accurately quantify the enterprise value of data (EvD) may therefore woefully undervalue the importance of cyber-security investments, as well as the face values typically applied to cyber insurance policies.

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business

Sometimes, the state sponsorship is through state-owned enterprises, or through industrial policies that support national champions. The clearest example of this pattern is in airlines, where Star Alliance, Oneworld, and SkyTeam compete against each other as groups of allied firms.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

I was buried in the enterprise.” It can even involve immersing yourself in the stakeholder experience by going through it, e.g. the senior executives of an airline might travel at the back of the plane to get a feel for what economy passengers experience. It was seat-of-the-pants stuff. But methods can be learned.