Tom Spencer

APRIL 4, 2021

While most consultancies are establishing programs to reduce work hours and improve work-life balance, my personal experience revealed that this is little more than a marketing effort. On top of that, travelling every week is a lot less romantic than it sounds. It is no secret that work hours are tough, at least in many countries.

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Consulting Success

JUNE 26, 2017

A man named Kyoji, who had grown up on this island but had spent 40+ years travelling around the world building several international brands and businesses. After checking into my hotel in the city center, I took the elevator down 13 floors to the street. Only 30 minutes to reach my island destination. Instantly Got My Attention.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As the longtime CEO of Otto Hotels & Resorts, now the second-largest lodging company in the world, he’d packed for hundreds of work trips before, but suits were his go-to. The facilitator, Caroline Dvorjak , was a marketing professor and a seasoned consultant. Tooga/Getty Images. No pruning necessary. Rick spoke up.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2023

However, by adopting new online tools, organizations can improve efficiency by enabling smoother collaboration, more efficient information sharing, and reduced travel costs. Advanced algorithms can analyze historical data, market trends, and external factors to forecast potential risks, enabling organizations to implement preventive measures.

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IMC USA

MARCH 15, 2017

The conference dates are October 20-22 in Atlanta, Georgia, at the JW Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel. And register now for the conference to get the best rate and start planning your travel. I am pleased to announce the IMC USA 2017 Annual Consulting Conference: Building Your Practice and Adding Value for Clients.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 22, 2023

I travel often. When I got to my hotel, the clerk seemed annoyed with me. Websites that are unresponsive or marketed products that are unavailable. A superior customer experience is rare. As a result, I live the best and worst customer experience’s companies have to offer. The poor examples outnumber the good.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

I’d say that one program’s changes that do seem to have had an impact on purchase habits were the changes to the Marriott Hotels Bonvoy program. And, in my not comprehensive survey of travelers, it seems that the changes have caused some change in behavior…but not for the good. People noticed.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Apple’s brand strength has consistently allowed it to enter new markets while its rivals have routinely struggled. And the power of Virgin’s reputation has allowed the company to enter a diverse range of unrelated markets including trains, planes, space travel, and hotels.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 19, 2013

Liz and Mish Dining at Hotel U Zlatého Stromu. On a 12-day European trip, we also traveled to Munich and Rothenburg ob der Tauber in Germany. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Stained Glass Windows in St. Vitus Cathedral.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 7, 2022

Top-ranked innovation companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon accelerate out of market disruptions. Space travel alone is challenging, but reusing a rocket by landing it on a drone ship takes the complexity to another level. Benchmarking in the process of creating a culture of innovation in hotel companies. Space News.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

Space travel alone is challenging, but reusing a rocket by landing it on a drone ship takes the complexity to another level. A financial services company engaged in investment banking and capital markets estimated the customer benefit of the Space X Falcon 9 reusable rocket. million per launch. This culture highlights coming in first.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

DECEMBER 18, 2012

conduct carries from using the expense policy, to accumulating hotel. marketing strategy, supply chain), industry, and file. Were always optimizing, always leveraging -- always in the pursuit of. minimizing our workload while maximizing our lifestyle. This mode of. points, to creating our client deliverables. The problem often is.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 17, 2015

Funny enough, the idea for Airbnb came about because the founders had trouble making rent, and in a desperate attempt to solve the problem they decided to throw up a website and market the extra space in their kitchen and living room to conference attendees visiting San Francisco who could find no room elsewhere.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 20, 2023

Getting to where you are going I learned an important life lesson on a business trip to Puerto Rico, traveling with a good friend. And after picking up our rental car at the airport, we realized we didn’t have the address to our hotel. This is the stage where individuals can innovate. I could count on him for directions.

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Leadership ROI Survey Hotels 59

Chad Barr

APRIL 5, 2017

Whenever I travel, I’m always looking for something adventurous to do: climb mountains, find the best view of the sunset, explore local gardens. Instead, I could have been relaxing at my hotel —but where’s the adventure in that? A brand new market to tackle? The same is true for your business.

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Hotels Travel Productivity Course 52

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

> Senior Consultant, > Emerging Markets Practice. > > Subject: RE: Missing Keys. > > > Kerri, > > We could not find any forgotten keys out here in Izmir, Turkey. > XXXXXX. > > > --Original Message --. > > > From: XXXXXXX XXXXXX. > > Sent: Wed 8/1/2007 1:30 AM. > Consultantese. (8).

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MishTalk

MARCH 14, 2015

A regular reader who I trust 100% has been traveling in Italy for a month. Even at hotels, they would like you to pay your €1000+ bills in cash. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. She has this report on cash vs. credit cards.

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freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

Another market to target could be single parents who could get involved in tasking platforms such as Taskrabbit to earn money on a schedule that suits them and fits with their childcare commitments. an accommodation service expanding from rooms in the homes of individuals to underused space in existing hotels) and vertically (e.g.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 14, 2018

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. Success of crowdsourcing as a business model.

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Consulting Talent Enterprise Industry 84

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Service increasingly was hit or miss, and Forbes Travel Guide issued a preliminary rating that would have docked the restaurant a star. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel.

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Operations Hotels Case Interview Finance 30

Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2016

On a recent business trip to London, I surprised the conference organizers by turning down the opportunity to stay at the posh hotel hosting the conference in favor of a rather modest Airbnb flat. The hotel was clearly much more luxurious. That makes Airbnb more valuable than most of the leading hotel chains in the world.

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Hotels Conference Transportation Productivity 28

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

MARCH 4, 2013

Sounds like you need to learn a bit of customer relationship skill as the way you write isn't exactly an exercise in marketing skill! July 24, 2013 at 11:56 AM. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Crazy Consultants. were type A (who, us?); Daily Dilbert. Consultantese. (8). consulting. (9).

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MishTalk

MARCH 11, 2014

Stay an extra day and golf or travel. The conference hotel is a fun place in and of itself. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. We will do so again. One of the wine estates we visited had a Bocce Ball court.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Stay an extra day and golf or travel. The conference hotel is a fun place in and of itself. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. We will do so again. One of the wine estates we visited had a Bocce Ball court.

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Conference Hotels Research Travel 57

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). The office at NYC has grown quite a bit the past ~7 years.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

It turns out we have a pretty good sense of what’s to come because we know what AirBnB has done to hotels (and homes), Waze to GPS systems and fold-up maps, and Uber to taxis. AirBnB, now used by 50,000 renters each night, is considered to be directly responsible for an estimated $450 million of lost hotel revenue each year.

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Healthcare Hotels Transportation System 32

Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others. Need travel information or services?

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Construction Airlines Data Travel 34

MishTalk

JANUARY 18, 2015

For sure, hotel prices in Switzerland rose as much as 40% overnight compared to prices elsewhere. like restaurants, travel and hotels. SMI Swiss Market Index In two days the Swiss stock market plunged 1375 points, from a high of 9274 to a close of 7899, a decline of nearly 15%. It''s what they do. Not so fast.

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Tourism Banking Hotels Financial 28

Rod Burkert

JUNE 20, 2018

Once you’ve scheduled your trip, you’ll travel bag free, and your freshly cleaned and neatly packed clothing will meet you at your specified destination. When you’re ready to head home, schedule a pick up from the hotel and we’ll clean your clothes and have them waiting in your virtual closet ready for your next trip!”.

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Development How To Intellectual Property Mercer 40

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Um.probably because who the President is has little to do with how markets perform. Crazy Consultant. ARGH - I want our industy to improve! November 6, 2008 at 4:43 PM. November 9, 2008 at 3:26 PM. Anonymous said. YES WE CAN to opportunity and prosperity. November 10, 2008 at 9:18 PM. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Consultantese. (8).

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Hotels Consulting Airlines Travel 40

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

Classic metrics like market penetration and market share, which many leaders are measured on, are the very things causing us to miss market opportunities and threats. Here are some of the areas I see as most ripe for change: Market share is one of the most widely used, and wildly misused, business metrics.

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Metrics Sports Data Marketing 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of Hamilton , unabashedly explained that he has a fiduciary responsibility to investors to boost prices since the market has demonstrated that tickets were underpriced. We’ve entered a new era, one where consumers understand market-based prices. I doubt it.

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Airlines Hotels Sports Advertising 33

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Robert Peston travels to China to investigate how this mighty economic giant could actually be in serious trouble. Stay an extra day and golf or travel. The conference hotel is a fun place in and of itself. First consider the BBC report How China Fooled the World by Robert Peston. We will do so again.

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Conference Banking Government Travel 76

MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2015

For sure, hotel prices in Switzerland rose as much as 40% overnight compared to prices elsewhere. like restaurants, travel and hotels. The soaring Swiss franc that caused howls in financial markets is creating a bonanza in stores, where shoppers are suddenly getting discounts on everything from vegetables to party dresses.

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Banking Travel Hotels Retail 28

MishTalk

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan The Wall Street Journal reports RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan From the country where hotels are operated by robots and androids serve as clerks at department stores comes the latest unmanned project: the robot cab. But here we are. Robot Taxi Inc.,

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Transportation Journal Travel Operations 28

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Economic Vacuum China’s flag is waving strongly these days, the direction of the economic- and political winds have changed but the present multitude of macro changes is yet to be recognized by consensus and the market. Markets and monetary policy It’s the weather! Safe travels, Steen Thanks Steen! We will do so again.

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Banking Conference Travel Policies 74

MishTalk

JANUARY 16, 2014

Stay an extra day and golf or travel. The conference hotel is a fun place in and of itself. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. We will do so again. One of the wine estates we visited had a Bocce Ball court.

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