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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

Augmented reality has been designed for enterprise and consumer devices such as smart phones and tablets, and can be delivered via software applications downloaded onto a device or hosted in the cloud. India’s Ministry of Tourism has partnered with a travel tech start-up called OutsiteVR. AR in the Tourism Sector.

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How to Win with Automation (Hint: It’s Not Chasing Efficiency)

Harvard Business

Clearly, any enterprise that doesn’t embrace automation won’t be able to survive any better than a farmer with a horse-drawn plow. In much the same way, nobody calls a travel agency to book a simple flight anymore. This creates a dilemma for leaders. They expect something more, like designing a dream vacation.

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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. The top consulting firms have high fixed costs and so are geared towards large enterprise clients. The consulting industry is surviving during these uncertain times. However, SMEs appear to be a gap in the market.

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New Technologies in the Insurance Landscape (Part 3 – Cloud)

Tom Spencer

Cloud vendors, such as Microsoft Azure , are investing in building open tooling for enterprise blockchain networks , which will see widespread adoption of blockchain in the enterprise. While any new technology brings inherent risk, cloud computing is safe and efficient when acquired through large, reliable providers.

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Five trends of future working

SkillQuo

More enterprise level businesses will provide more opportunities for charity and community building to employees, versus just writing a big check to a cause. In its stead, there is a budding respect for a balanced and efficient individual, who takes time for personal pursuits and self-care.

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‘Uberization’ of consulting: A major disruption or merely hype?

Tom Spencer

UBER and Air-BNB are the companies who have perfected this model and have radically democratized the taxi and hotel industries, tapping into un-utilized excess capacities and ultimately making the economic system more efficient. Changing attitude towards work. The attitude towards work is changing.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

An investor-owned hospital executive whose company had acquired major nonprofit health care enterprises compared the proliferation of contracts to the growth of barnacles on the bottom of a freighter. Patients need to flow through them efficiently or the hospital loses money, often in large amounts. cancel or rebid them). As the U.S.

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