MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Sanction Madness Escalates: Italy Seizes Hotel of Putin Ally Two days ago sanction madness hit a new extreme: Italy seizes Putin ally Arkady Rotenberg’s property assets. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

Hotels 65

Hotels Real Estate Report Management 65

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Marriott recently teamed up with Amazon to offer a hospitality version of the e-commerce giant’s Echo devices in select hotel rooms. Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. Worldwide, ownership exceeds 100 million units and is projected to reach 225 million by 2020.

Travel 111

Travel Industry Hotels Airlines 111

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2018

In the tourism sector, while embodied and episodic deceleration has long been encouraged as part of luxury hotels’ wellness focus, we are beginning to see the absence of Wi-Fi marketed as an amenity, for example at Villa Stephanie in Baden-Baden , so guests aren’t posting experiences on Instagram but rather focusing on their holiday.

Tourism 132

Tourism Fashion Hotels Transportation 132

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2018

21c Museum Hotels. Some recent picks: Bloomberg article (“ Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women At All Cost “) and Response from Jefferies CEO Richard Handler. The Truth As Told By Mason Buttle (by Leslie Connor). TikTok (phone app). Robert Stavins (follow on Twitter). FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data).

Advertising 130

Advertising Hotels Video Data 130

Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In fact, that's a recipe for failure over the long-term as this approach will guarantee your market positioning as an "extra pair of hands" and "trading time for money" commodity. 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?

Consulting 177

Consulting How To Marketing Hotels 177

Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Digital technology has been roiling markets and disrupting companies for more than two decades, but despite that lengthy history, incumbents are still struggling to enact and deliver on digital transformations. We then classified companies based on the digital strategy they were pursuing. To do so, we outlined six digital strategies.

Strategy 71

Strategy Strategy& Strategy ROI 71

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

Strategy 71

Strategy Strategy& Strategy Company 71

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 133

Survey Hotels Company Enterprise 133

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A new study out by Spencer Stuart shows an insane number of chief marketing officers who’ve been fired during 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.

How To 128

How To Sales Marketing Productivity 128

MishTalk

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Rental licenses will be only given to properties for primary uses (hotels, offices, etc.), Clearly, the proposal seeks to eliminate competition to the unfair advantage of hotels. If hotels cannot compete against homeowners, they are charging too much for what they offer. Via Mish-modified translation from El Economista.

Hotels 69

Hotels Sales Management Strategy& 69

Jerry Fletcher

MARCH 13, 2021

In it he describes how he conducted interviews with the staff at 76 different locations of a hotel chain. Jerry Fletcher is a sought-after International Speaker, a beBee ambassador, founder and CEO of Z-axis Marketing, Inc. Tony had the staff rate managers on six different trust factors. The oxytocin kicker.

Marketing 59

Marketing Consulting Hotels Productivity 59

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. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

Methodologies 134

Methodologies Culture Company Metrics 134

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retailers such as ALDI and Walmart have used price to position themselves against traditional competitors in their markets, pinching margins all around. Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. Improving perception.

Retail 132

Retail Survey Bain Comparison 132

Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

Marketers know they should keep their messages simple if they want to cut through the noise and reach customers. If you were entering the bottled water market alongside of Evian, following marketing principles might lead you to differentiate your brand on a dimension other than purity. Consider bottled water.

Case Interview 109

Case Interview Marketing Bain Hotels 109

Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

” As a result, the producers of Hamilton are scrambling to find the right pricing strategy to handle demand. 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. I doubt it.

Airlines 115

Airlines Hotels Sports Advertising 115

Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

No strategy is static. 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. Insight Center.

Construction 119

Construction Airlines Data Travel 119

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

It’s also more than “internal marketing” or “invertising,” which describe when an organization promotes its brand to employees as it would to customers and expects them to “buy” the message it’s trying to “sell” to them. Understanding the brand strategy.

Company 146

Company Training Training Culture 146

Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

These best consulting blogs offer bite-sized reads packed with actionable tips and strategies for consultants. Rather than blogs focused on a particular consulting industry, I’m listing blogs that are focused on business development, marketing, and sales for consultants and independent professionals.

Consulting 120

Consulting Journal Marketing Resources 120

Chad Barr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

This week’s reflection point: It’s widely known that content marketing is critical to business success. But in this day and age, creating valuable, relevant content for your target audience isn’t the only marketing strategy you need. This week’s tip: Ready to go beyond content marketing?

Marketing 52

Marketing Hotels Transportation Productivity 52

MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2014

China’s project to build a replica Manhattan is taking shape against a backdrop of vacant office towers and unfinished hotels, underscoring the risks to a slowing economy from the nation’s unprecedented investment boom. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

Hotels 77

Hotels Banking Government Construction 77

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Description: On this episode, I’m talking with Emma Sharley, an experienced and very successful brand and marketing consultant in Australia. She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines.

Retail 153

Retail Fashion Consulting Marketing 153

Tom Spencer

APRIL 4, 2021

Ever since I started my undergraduate degree, I was keen on securing a job in strategy consulting. 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. This ultimately leads to a steep learning curve.

Advertising 88

Advertising Consulting Hotels Travel 88

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.

Hotels 70

Hotels Conference Transportation Productivity 70

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). Before the acquisition of Parthenon, consulting at EY was really synonymous to Advisory (not strategy).

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

MishTalk

JULY 9, 2015

Between June 28 and July 4 at a Hilton hotel in Athens, transactions on a Bloomberg reporter's Visa credit card issued by Citigroup Inc. spokeswoman said that the Athens hotel had billed the customer in euros, not drachmas. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

Hotels 28

Hotels Banking Report Management 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

The employment of scent branding is a strategy that Hyatt Place has been using since its inception, in 2007. Today, Hyatt Place’s signature scent can be found in almost 300 hotels across the U.S. Instead, marketers should work through a scent branding firm, as signature scent development and diffusion is an art and a science.

Hotels 71

Hotels Real Estate Retail Productivity 71

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On this episode, I’m talking with Emma Sharley, an experienced and very successful brand and marketing consultant in Australia. She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines.

Retail 100

Retail Fashion Consulting Hotels 100

Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 70

Tourism Banking Hotels Financial 70

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. As an example, hotel chains like Marriott or Hilton create value chains that deliver rooms and related services to their customers. Different companies can pursue quite different platform strategies based on what kinds of capital they choose to network together.

Intellectual Property 71

Intellectual Property Strategy Strategy& Strategy 71

MishTalk

AUGUST 19, 2013

Liz and Mish Dining at Hotel U Zlatého Stromu. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.' Fireworks Over Charles Bridge. Vitus Cathedral.

Hotels 61

Hotels Travel Management Strategy 61

Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2024

Whether it’s financial services, healthcare, marketing, digital transformation, or sustainability, these firms bring a level of understanding and knowledge that can only be achieved through focused practice. As a result, these firms can quickly adapt to changes in the market and client needs.

Agile 88

Agile Advertising Travel Consulting 88

MishTalk

JUNE 6, 2014

After close to 30 years of doing this job I am realizing that energy is everything in explaining growth, investment, sentiment and market returns. 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.

Energy 73

Energy Hotels Report Policies 73

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

One sales and marketing executive I know told me how he was flown to London with 20 of his colleagues, put up in a pricey hotel, and then trained to do the haka, a traditional war dance, by a group of Maori tribe members from New Zealand. Sometimes these events get really elaborate.

Survey 133

Survey Hotels Interviews Research 133

MishTalk

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Thanks to a new law in France, you have to wait a minimum of 15 minutes except at 4 or 5 star hotels. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

Tourism 75

Tourism Retail Hotels Operations 75

The Fearless Marketer

JULY 16, 2018

My internal dialog started in 2008 when I decided to write another book to help me market my services. It was a perfect strategy for killing my marketing creativity. Feel free to substitute a marketing project you are resisting as I coach myself back to taking action. Let me think about it for awhile.” Not necessarily.

Analysis 90

Analysis How To Marketing Film 90

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 4, 2011

AECOM is a leader in providing fully integrated professional, technical and management support services for a broad range of markets. Previous post: List of strategy consulting firms in London 2011. Business Strategy. Next post: Steve Jobs – farewell. Graduate Consulting Group. Categories. Select Category. Case Interviews.

Consulting 94

Consulting Intellectual Property Engineering Real Estate 94

Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

In today’s market, tech platforms enable IP and relationships to scale rapidly, and at near-zero cost. We’ve seen how dramatically digital platforms have upended long-established industries across the spectrum from hotels (Airbnb and VRBO) to music (Apple and Pandora) to recruiting (LinkedIn) to retail (Wayfair and Amazon).

How To 123

How To Metrics Pharmaceuticals Hotels 123