Tom Spencer

MARCH 8, 2024

From entrepreneurs putting a new product on the market to executives at a public company revamping a product line, effective pricing is a key pillar of any successful sales and marketing strategy. In an ideal world, companies would be able to set prices through price discrimination , which means charging a different price to each customer.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2023

Today’s wildfires and smoke can travel hundreds of miles, blurring the lines between what happens within and outside the workplace when it comes to workforce health. Now is the time for employers to develop a plan to get ahead of this and other climate change-driven health issues.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

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. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 2, 2023

years in management consulting, I transitioned to a Fortune 50 US company in an internal strategy role. At a company, there is more security in the relationships you develop, and more likelihood that they will last throughout your tenure at the company. Last year, after 2.5

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

MAY 30, 2014

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. My company could book me into the Courtyard but the chain could let me stay at the Marriott instead, just like a first class upgrade on a flight.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

Consider what’s happened with travel: With the explosion of internet travel sites in the 2000s, consumers took charge of their own travel, and travel agencies hemorrhaged business. According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015.

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 10, 2021

During the pandemic, the travel, leisure, and hospitality industries ground to a near halt. Many companies were not allowed to operate for several months, and even as reopenings move forward, many had their maximum capacities limited.

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

According to BCG’s analysis , productivity at companies that have shifted to remote work has increased between 15% and 40%. Low-value travel? As they put it, “the lockdown has unlocked real work” by reducing or eliminating the complicatedness of the traditional work environment. Long commutes? Four-hour meetings?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 1, 2024

Everyone was leaving the conference, and some people left my talk early so they could manage their travel. And they brought me into their companies to deliver my project portfolio workshop. At the time, I was a little concerned. Sure, the conference had gone well, but this was my first talk offering content from my new book.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

I went with the pizza, but my lack of choices was annoying — so much so that, when I got home, I started looking into the data on health and travel for work. According to the Global Business Travel Association and American Express , Americans took more than 500 million domestic business trips in 2016.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In short, it means that companies are expanding beyond their traditional core products in order to increase opportunities for cross-selling and to boost customer ownership. Alternatively, an accounting software company might offer additional services that cover legal incorporation, logo design, CRM, inventory management, and invoicing.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

As if the stresses and headaches of business travel weren’t enough, there’s one more thing to worry about while traveling in unfamiliar places: the security of your email. According to one report , there are 40,000 kidnap-and-ransom cases each year, many of which involve executives on business travel. and need money.

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Girard Training Solutions

APRIL 16, 2024

Kristin, her husband, and their five-year-old son are traveling the world while they work as digital nomads. Making an impact in your company as someone in operations. They’re currently spending several months in Europe. In this episode, you’ll hear: What a COO is and what they do for businesses of all sizes and types.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

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.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

But if the new parent’s return involves business travel, and that parent has chosen to nurse, it’s even more complicated. While it’s common for new parents to feel stressed about juggling life at work and home, for a pumping, traveling parent the stress can be heightened. Become a Travel-Logistics Master.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2016

Despite the inherent fatigue and the surface appearance of monotony, business travel can be more than just getting work done in a new location. Through our own experiences as well as those we’ve interviewed, coached, and worked with, we’ve identified some of the top benefits of short-term business travel. Pamela Hinds.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. So you have a Booz & Company interview coming up, and you want to be the best candidate they see? Where prestige, pay, exit opportunities and culture are concerned, Booz & Company ranks number 4 behind MBB. KEY STATS FOR BOOZ & COMPANY. BOOZ & COMPANY HISTORY.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Beyond expanding one’s professional circle, networking presents numerous opportunities to learn more about a company, demonstrate genuine interest in a prospective job opportunity, cultivate lasting relationships, and hopefully obtain a valuable referral.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

The job of consulting can vary from company to company and from leadership to leadership; that’s also one of the most desirable aspects of the job because there is so much ambiguity this allows you to grow within your role. An example of some issues consultants focus on would be mergers, acquisitions and managing company strategy.

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Markovitz Consulting

APRIL 22, 2020

There’s not a company around—not even the ones doing well during this time, like Netflix or Zoom—that isn’t wrestling with the new reality of Covid-19. And clearly, the stress is exponentially worse for companies in industries like travel and leisure that aren’t thriving in the current environment. Barry-Wehmiller does.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 28, 2017

The airlines were caught off guard and now Rush to Comply With Surprise Travel Restrictions. Global airlines are struggling to comply with new travel restrictions after being caught flat-footed by President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking visitors from seven predominantly Muslim nations. under the E-2 visa program, she said.

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Harvard Business

MAY 27, 2016

The upmarket mechanism is also what separates a company from being just another niche player or becoming a serious disruptive threat. They were very successful and profitable for some time, then stagnated, and today are subsidiaries of other companies. Mere company survival is considered success.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2023

However, companies often forget about their most important source of competition: substitutes. For example, Southwest Airlines competes directly with Delta and American Airlines, but also competes with car travel because of its unique business model. Another hidden substitute is for the customer to do nothing at all.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 3, 2022

When applying to consulting companies , you will encounter a questionnaire that asks you to select your office(s) of interest. For example, if it is an engineering or science company, finding out whether they have a machine shop, laboratory, or supercomputer on site is likely to be important. Factor 2: Office Resources.

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Companies don’t have to coordinate in-person sessions. There are no travel costs for attendance. eLearning consultants are learning and development (L&D) experts who harness their expertise to help companies create engaging, useful, and skill-building online courses. How Does eLearning Help Businesses?

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 16, 2017

One of my favorite stories of how a buyer fixed a company is about when he raised prices about 25%, because he knew the company was severely under market (and no customers left or even complained). The post It’s Counter-Intuitive – Buy the Company and Lower Prices appeared first on Martinka Consulting. WE will make our own.”

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Roller coasters are one of the safest ways to travel (they end up where they begin, but that’s a different story). Air travel is really safe, and the airlines work overtime to reduce the perception of risk as well. People pay to ride on them because they feel risky, even if they’re not.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

When you're in a company, your boss and corporate culture set limits for how you express your gifts and expertise. In your own company, those limits are gone. Want to travel in the summer? I envision that at some point, I'll be able to travel all the time and run my business at the same time. I didn't miss a thing.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

I’ve seen companies create a Kaizen Promotion Office, develop a comprehensive Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training curriculum, and invest in expensive andon systems, but they’re not making any real progress towards their business goals. So—a $5 billion project was undone by something that your $10 Casio watch could handle.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 9, 2020

If the person who is hiring you is using company funds and your advice delivered either through a consulting or coaching assignment is designated to help the organization improve, it's a BTB business. This is not because companies have more money than individuals but because the people who are hiring you are using other people's money.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 28, 2019

What company wouldn’t want to reap the benefits of large improvements in processes? Kaizen events were invented by the original Japanese consultants who came from Japan to work with US companies in the late 1980s. Companies that realize the greatest benefits from lean don’t do kaizen events (and that includes Toyota).

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 22, 2023

I travel often. As a result, I live the best and worst customer experience’s companies have to offer. Consequently, I wouldn’t give the two companies mentioned above that high a rating. It’s too bad that so many companies have poor service or, at best, average service. He acted more tired than I was.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

Millions of global travelers are anxiously awaiting the answer to this question. Aside from another terrorist group disrupting world-wide travel operations at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars , the other big winners from an increased ban could be foreign intelligence services. To ban or not to ban laptops? Since the U.S.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Although consulting is traditionally thought of traveling Monday to Thursday, that does not always have to be the case. Some firms are a mix of both whereby each office has teams that travel regularly and teams that don’t as they have a mix of clients. Areas of strength and growth. Image: Pexels.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 8, 2020

On the surface they seem to be about the nutty way your company redefined your job (or took it away.) Is it your company and the culture and environment is offers? Buy or start a company. Get a new role in the same company. Stay in current role but in a new company. Step 1: Make a Bugs List. Location independence.

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BCG

AUGUST 31, 2016

Thanks to digital innovators such as Amazon and Netflix—not to mention travel industry disruptors such as Uber and Air-bnb—consumers’ expectations are on the rise. If other companies can offer a customized experience, why can’t a hotel or an airline? See Travel Innovated: Who Will Own the Customer, BCG Focus, January 2016.)

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Airlines Travel Hotels Survey 75

Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2018

You have to make videos of every little kaizen, and show them to the whole company at the daily huddle. Travel gets in the way a lot. Their companies are doing great—they’re growing profitably, and they have terrific employee morale. You have to be more excited about the improvement than the person who’s actually made it.

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