Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

The topic of industry disruption — “a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses” — is rife with misconceptions. Industry disruption, as Accenture research has found, is reasonably predictable. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

Industry 28

Industry Retail Accenture Transportation 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

Especially in the tech industry. I started a boutique hotel company when I was 26 and, after 24 years as CEO, sold it at the bottom of the Great Recession, not knowing what was next. But I was an “old-school” hotel guy and had never used Airbnb. That’s when Airbnb came calling. Sounded good.

Industry 53

Industry Hotels Emotional Intelligence Meeting 53

Tom Spencer

MAY 16, 2020

Having a clear direction and strategy for your career early on can grant you amazing advantages, but so can keeping your options open and exploring the opportunities offered by consulting. ’ In addition to industry specific knowledge, consulting equips you with highly transferable business and management skills.

Consulting 88

Consulting Industry Case Interview Culture 88

Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

It’s interesting, and a bit sad, to see town car drivers waiting and waiting and waiting outside of hotels as Uber and Lyft cars come and go with passengers. As much as the ride companies disrupted the taxi industry they did the same, or more, to town car industry.

Hotels 40

Hotels Industry Productivity Consulting 40

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

During their evaluations, they’ll typically ask themselves two questions: Is your product or service better than alternatives, and, equally important, can their people work with you and your organization? Because of this, it will take more than great analysis, a superior product, or a performance improvement to clinch a deal.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Hotels 28

Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2017

To get there, companies should take the time to level-set their efforts with three strategic exercises: Reexamine your goals and strategy. With more and more options for mobile interactions, businesses all too often get their digital strategy wrong — or don’t reassess it often enough. Insight Center. Think about Airbnb.

Strategy 32

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Metrics 32

Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2018

It is cliché to talk of Airbnb as the hotel company with no properties, or Uber as the taxi company with no cars. In 2018, marketplace platforms – products or services that mediate transactions in other products and/or services between two or more groups – are ubiquitous in many industries. One step at a time?

Advertising 74

Advertising Operations Retail Examples 74

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

In the New York office, the industries McKinsey caters to are financial services, health care services, advanced electronics, aerospace and defense, and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications). Bainies in NYC work to support their clients on nearly every industry and across all ranges.

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

Scented environments have been shown to reduce typos made by office workers ; improve the perception of product quality ; increase purchase intent , average unit sales , and duration of a retail visit or stay among consumers; and boost the willingness of consumers to pay more for a product. Ad agency J.

Hotels 28

Hotels Real Estate Retail Productivity 28

Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Although historically not known for consulting services (unless you were consulting – ahem, lobbying – government officials), strategy, operations, and even tech consulting have exploded inside and outside the Beltway in the last 10 years. – Washington, DC. They reserve one only on days when they plan to come to the office.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Bain 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Although directors in certain industries are more aware of the threat of disruption, the widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Instead, boards typically looked for expertise in their firms’ industry (51%), strategy (34%), and financials (30%).

Telecommunications 36

Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 36

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Most started out as their company’s first salesperson, its first product developer, or both. 2) Constantly translate your strategy decisions into front-line routines and behaviors. Now I could see the connection between our strategy, our capability-building program, and our professionalization agenda.

Company 37

Company Hotels Emotional Intelligence Healthcare 37

Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

When visiting my mother-in-law, we stayed at the Intercontinental Hotel. More likely it’s someone too busy (this is a popular business hotel), doing too much in too short a time, and she simply forgot she had things in the safe. As we went to put things in the safe it wouldn’t open. It was locked. Here’s what I mean.

Hotels 40

Hotels Engineering Industry Examples 40

Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

You can Google any question related to your business or industry and find an answer in seconds. These best consulting blogs offer bite-sized reads packed with actionable tips and strategies for consultants. They include cartoons (drawn by him) that provide much needed humor in an often stiff, dry industry.

Consulting 120

Consulting Journal Marketing Resources 120

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. Think of platforms and networks in our digital age as the equivalent of electricity and motors in the industrial age. Value is in the products and services themselves. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Intellectual capital.

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Strategy Strategy Strategy& 28

MishTalk

AUGUST 27, 2013

We are now planning for a month or three months at best unlike six months or a year earlier," said Shantanu Dasgupta, vice president for corporate affairs and strategy at Whirlpool of India, the local arm of Whirlpool Corp (WHR), the world''s largest home appliance maker. "A

Apparel 76

Apparel Finance Hotels Enterprise 76

MishTalk

JUNE 6, 2014

Understand energy and its marginal price of production and its delivery and you have the keys to predicting the world. The hotel/resort where I stayed on the coast was a favorite for Russian tourists, and the hotel TV had several stations delivering Russian channels, German and French stations too. In contrast, U.S.

Energy 73

Energy Hotels Report Policies 73

LSA Global

MARCH 1, 2021

Niches include: specific industries, market segments, geographic areas, buyer roles, degrees of complexity, types of approach, client challenges, amounts of risk, size of companies, levels of importance, meaningful causes, or packaging/bundling of solutions. Do We Have a Unique Enough Client Niche or Characteristic?

Examples 36

Examples Hotels Airlines Company 36

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

Methodologies 52

Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 52

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 30, 2020

The investment banking sector became so big, so powerful, and so profitable that it started recruiting talent out of other industries. If entire industries have been destroyed, we will have to either financially support 30% of American workers or tolerate mass poverty, starvation, and a humanitarian crisis of a different kind.

Financial 145

Financial Energy Real Estate Government 145

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

Price wars have broken out in consumer industries around the world. As pressure intensifies to reduce prices, either by cutting the list price or offering a discount, managers may act hastily, without the same rigor they apply to investments elsewhere, such as capital deployment or product enhancements. All too often they don’t.

Retail 48

Retail Survey Bain Comparison 48

Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2017

It wasn’t long ago and, yet, in technology terms, it’s almost an eternity — ride- or hotel-sharing companies didn’t exist yet and the first generation of social media platforms were just hitting the mainstream. CEOs recognize how much their digital strategy influences business goals.

Survey 39

Survey Hotels Enterprise Company 39

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

We also supplemented the survey with well-known brand rankings, Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and an analysis of their marketing expenditures and strategies. For example, consider the following “brand twins” — pairs of legacy and newcomer brands that compete in the same industry.

Advertising 28

Advertising B2B Survey B2C 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The industry breakdowns were determined using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g., apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., Inadequate processes.

Telecommunications 28

Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate Survey 28

Management Consulted

JANUARY 10, 2016

The year promises the world’s first space hotel, NASA’s Juno spacecraft arriving at Jupiter, soccer’s Euro 2016 in France and the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the US Presidential Elections (aka circus) and much more. Strategy& ZS Associates. For Strategy& in Amsterdam: €49,000 base, up to 15% bonus.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Management 100

freshminds

MARCH 22, 2016

If anyone is anyone in retail, the annual coming together of industry bosses at Retail Week Live is a big date in your calendar. Sponsored by digital software developer Oracle, the glittering event took place in the Ballroom of the Grovesnor House Hotel on Park Lane as the champagne flowed and live bands headlined.

Retail 41

Retail Trends Sales Productivity 41

Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

” As a result, the producers of Hamilton are scrambling to find the right pricing strategy to handle demand. Take a cue from other sellers of perishable products with fixed capacities — industries such as airlines, hotels, and car rentals — and employ dynamic pricing. So what should Hamilton have done?

Airlines 33

Airlines Hotels Sports Advertising 33

Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. But today there is a third approach, one that will become the dominant path for most entrepreneurs, especially those building information products. No strategy is static. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

Construction 33

Construction Airlines Data Travel 33

Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

The country’s urbanized and large middle class has maintained a strong preference for foreign-made products despite restrictions due to U.S. There are some exemptions for humanitarian-designated sectors, such as agriculture, food products, health care, and civil aviation.). sanctions and a fragile economy. For non-U.S.-based

Tourism 28

Tourism Banking Hotels Financial 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

companies $450 billion to $550 billion per year in lost productivity. Understanding the brand strategy. It wanted to be known for entertainment venues and hotels that were not gaming-centric — such as the Bellagio and MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Organizations spend over $100 billion annually to improve employee engagement.

Company 49

Company Training Training Culture 49

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

Specifically, there are three urban planning strategies, commonly followed by major metropolises, that leaders can use for inspiration in the race to keep up with digital competition. Today Dubai also boasts the world’s tallest building, artificial islands, the first hotel with a rain forest, and the largest indoor theme park on earth.

Agile 28

Agile System Retail Data 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. Traditional businesses should worry, and maybe they should think about platform strategies. All but one of these new matchmakers directly disrupted an existing platform industry. Some new matchmakers do send traditional industries into a tailspin.

Operations 28

Operations Hotels System Industry 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Today GE has once again reinvented itself, as “the digital industrial company” — not bad for an organization founded in 1892. Here are four strategies. Westin, the hotel chain, awards its top innovators a five-day exotic trip each quarter. How do you do that? Use Symbolic Experiences.

Culture 28

Culture Talent Industry Financial 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

Tesla just delivered its first Model 3, the affordable model that he envisioned in his “secret” strategy some 11 years ago. The Model 3 has mostly rave reviews and a multiyear waiting list, which is quite a feat, even for an industry leader like Musk. He’s basically already there.

Metrics 28

Metrics Sports Data Marketing 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

The Order of United Commercial Travelers , for instance, was founded to “ improve character and instill temperate habits,” and Gideon bibles were originally put in hotel rooms to help “ eliminate gambling , drinking, dirty jokes, Sunday trading and other forms of temptation peculiar to traveling (sales) men.”

Sales 28

Sales Education Training Training 28

MishTalk

JANUARY 30, 2014

Now it has the largest debt-to-GDP ration in the industrial world. As a result of increased productivity, prices should drop over time, with more goods available at cheaper prices, to the benefit of everyone! Some of us in the industry who have done well are making an effort to help others. Pritchard Wonders "Why?"

Conference 76

Conference Banking Sales Construction 76

MishTalk

JANUARY 6, 2014

Tech’s ‘Fat Five’ wake up to a nasty hangover in 2014 : We like technology stocks in general as they are the main driver of the necessary productivity growth the economy needs to create long-term increases in wealth per capita. Some of us in the industry who have done well are making an effort to give something back.

Banking 75

Banking Conference Government Groups 75