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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

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. But they’ve had mixed success doing it, since they continue to pander to the wrong clientele with signing bonuses and airport terminal credit card hawkers.

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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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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Enterprise Improvement. Even for such a high travel firm, which we’ll discuss below, they all seem to be so gosh darn chummy with each other. Travel – Now don’t get us wrong, warning a prospective consultant about travel is a bit like warning trainee surgeon that they may see blood once in a while. Practice Areas.

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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. He’s also an avid traveller with passion for FinTech, marathon, and blogging. Image: Pexels.

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Consulting in South Africa – what to expect

Tom Spencer

Although consulting jobs have been under threat because of the negatively impacted economy, companies have cut off many expenses (travel, networking events) and firms have adjusted their operations to support a ‘work from home’ model. The top consulting firms have high fixed costs and so are geared towards large enterprise clients.

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Improve Business with Technology!

Women in Consulting

Intacct – Intacct online accounting software helps fast growing companies that are ready to graduate from QuickBooks to multi-national organizations, public companies and global enterprises dissatisfied with their current business financial software. Business Travel. Lose the paper, keep the handwriting and remember everything.