People Business Psychology

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Having worked in the luxury-segment hotel industry, I subscribe to the idea that leaders have a strong influence of how, and how well, the workforce operates – especially in the hotel industry. Working in a 4 or 5-star hotel is hard work. And that is just about 100% of the workforce in any hotel establishment.

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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.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

What I found was that I love loyalty programs because they are rewards and touchpoints that keep folks engaged with your products, services, or, in my case, often, teams. P.S. 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.

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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.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 22, 2023

When I got to my hotel, the clerk seemed annoyed with me. Websites that are unresponsive or marketed products that are unavailable. As a result, I live the best and worst customer experience’s companies have to offer. The poor examples outnumber the good. For example, recently I was going from Minneapolis to NYC.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 17, 2022

New and innovative products have brought economic growth, communication and educational accessibility, and environmental sustainability to the advancement of society. Improved Productivity In order to improve productivity, you should streamline what you need to focus on and what you need to cut out.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Strategy second: The first step you take is a step back: Brand tracking, segmentation, heritage, talking to fans, and figuring out what you’ve learned that you should apply next year. Second, build a strategy by understanding what you will and won’t do. Brand Strategy is three questions: a) Who are we targeting? Not at all.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Do you see yourself enjoying walking the floor of a manufacturing plant, chatting with the production staff and engineers? How do you feel if your client gives you a free overnight to stay at one of their hotels to get a flavor of their customer service experience? So they send you out to "walk the floor" of their business.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 17, 2009

Yesterday upon arrival at her hotel she received a fruit basket, a warm welcome from the staff who greeted her by first name, and the below card. One of our partners spends a fair amount of time in one city (not his home) and always stays at the sane hotel. I am a strategy consultant at. Productivity. (6). How depressing.

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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?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). Organizational Talent Consulting.

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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. From advice, to product delivery, to having a car when and where you need it, with you being in control of the ride.

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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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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Don’t worry if they’re extremely talented, have solid customer relationships, have a wealth of product knowledge or anything else. It can be with ineffective marketing campaigns, a product line that doesn’t sell or even a bad customer. Exit Strategies Increasing Value Weekly Memo' Take action.

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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.

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Chad Barr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

But in this day and age, creating valuable, relevant content for your target audience isn’t the only marketing strategy you need. Experiential marketing enables your customers to truly experience your brand, your product, or your service. If you offer a product, enable customers to experience how your product can create success.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

Checking into a hotel for a conference several years ago, I asked the receptionist where I could get some dinner. There was no restaurant in the hotel, I was told; my only options were ordering delivery from a fast-casual chain or a pizza joint. Eric Raptosh Photography/Getty Images.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 17, 2016

This is especially true for organisations that have software development skills and who are able to produce new digital products by drawing on their own capabilities. Secondly, the Internet is the greatest communication device ever invented, and allows customers to find out about products quickly and easily.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 8, 2023

Think about it like this: Are you the expert provider of a product or service? Isn’t there a difference in your expectation of a hotel when you pay a premium like the Four Seasons vs. a Marriott Marquis? The cost can be manipulated based on what you are selling and what the customer recieves. Shouldn’t that come with a premium?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 2, 2018

He’s driven to do this, even though logically he knows that even great products usually have some negative feedback, and that the specific negative comments he reads aren’t particularly relevant to how he plans to mainly use the tool. Perfectionists can spend too long working on marginally productive activities before moving on.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Don’t worry if they’re extremely talented, have solid customer relationships, have a wealth of product knowledge or anything else. It can be with ineffective marketing campaigns, a product line that doesn’t sell or even a bad customer. Take action. Don’t stew about it, just do it and do it fast. And not just with people. Muhammad Ali.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. Value is in the products and services themselves. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

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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.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 22, 2016

We walked into a nice Sheraton Hotel with our dogs (all Starwood Hotels allow dogs) and our Lab got scared, turned around, and headed back to the entry way. Just like their customers don’t want to be experts on the products they buy from my clients, they just want it to do what it’s supposed to do.

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

Marriott, for example, uses digital technology to streamline the hotel experience for its consumers, particularly its high-value business travelers. No strategy is static. Keyless room entry through mobile devices and bill payment via Apple Pay further reduce the friction associated with a traditional hotel experience.

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Henman Performance Executive

APRIL 25, 2013

I’ve spent more nights in hotels since the beginning of 2013 than the average nomad has spent in a tent in her lifetime. Most of them have been high end hotels, but a few have been more moderate chains, like the Marriott. Several of the most expensive hotels charged extra for internet. Executive blog Contact Us. Communication.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Have you ever looked up flights or hotels on an app on your phone, only to open your laptop and see different prices? Settling on a hotel, I accessed Orbitz’s website on my laptop to book the package. Settling on a hotel, I accessed Orbitz’s website on my laptop to book the package. Klaus Meinhardt/Getty Images.

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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.

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1 to 1

MAY 10, 2016

While customer expectations will vary based on each consumer's mindset going into an interaction and what they expect out of it, people who are paying for a high-end product or service typically have amplified expectations. I recently had a chance to discuss some of the components of delivering a luxury customer experience with Ana M.

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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.

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Consultant Ninja

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

All positive precursor signs of hyper-productivity. Reads just like a déjà-vu of my last crunch time on a project, minus the wife, plus irritated friends ("wtf, do you know that it is 1am?" - "but you said to call you when I get to the hotel, didnt you?"). I am a strategy consultant at. Productivity. (6). at 1:31 AM.

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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. Consulting is a career where you hit the ground running. Travel is an alluring carrot that attracts many young people towards consulting.

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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.

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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

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

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. He and his two Millennial cofounders wanted me to help turn their growing tech startup into an international giant, as their Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy. Sounded good.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

I served as CMO for Deloitte Consulting and then Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and when I have coached executive teams through transformations, I’ve seen many teams at an impasse with their CMO. ” This just when market pressures are suggesting the CMO should shift to sales support and product marketing.

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