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. Productivity. (6). Tuesday, March 17, 2009. How depressing. at 10:10 PM.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Hotels Management 100

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. Keyless room entry through mobile devices and bill payment via Apple Pay further reduce the friction associated with a traditional hotel experience.

Trends 123

Trends Hotels How To Retail 123

Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. As we were talking, we started thinking that we could really improve the hotel experience, That sort of hit us on the head and we just couldn’t stop thinking about it.

Hotels 100

Hotels Oliver Wyman Travel Recruiting 100

Consulting Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

Lee has held various executive positions in the hospitality and entertainment business with Hilton Hotels for 8 years and the Marriott Corporation for 17 years before joining Disney in 1990 to open the Disneyland Paris project.

Operations 156

Operations Leadership Hotels Sports 156

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.

Hotels 134

Hotels Examples Tools Productivity 134

Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 27, 2022

If you were a hotel chain, would you be a Motel 6, Courtyard by Marriott, or a Ritz-Carlton? Freelancers use artistic or technical skill to generate work products. They tend to do more tactical work, as opposed to the strategic problem solving of consultants or the creative production of freelancers.

Consulting 195

Consulting Accenture Hotels Nonprofit 195

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

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 132

Retail Survey Bain Comparison 132

Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Her mother, Kyle Richey, and her co-founder, David Richey, are known for helping luxury service businesses — including hotel, retail, fashion, and professional sports — develop brand-defining service standards. Luxury customers, whether they’re buying automobiles, or jewelry, or hotel suites, want to feel special.

Hotels 70

Hotels Data Film Fashion 70

Consulting Success

MAY 15, 2017

Now if you’re following this discussion closely, you’ll notice these examples are for products, not services. BBBK provides services to its clients that include restaurants, high-end hotels, and other businesses. Neil Patel also found that offering a guarantee increased his sales by 21%. Guarantee Benefits for Consultants.

Consulting 206

Consulting B2B Hotels Examples 206

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.

Travel 76

Travel Data Hotels Exercises 76

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?"). Productivity. (6). damn, why doesnt that add up?"] at 1:31 AM.

Time Management 100

Time Management Oliver Wyman Consulting Management 100

Alan Weiss

OCTOBER 22, 2019

I’m astonished by how little designers (cars, hotel rooms, appliances, furniture, etc.) consult with their perspective customers before they produce the final product. I’m always asked by consultants what topics to use for a special event, a client conference, or a webinar or video series.

Hotels 65

Hotels Conference Video Consulting 65

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 71

Hotels Real Estate Retail Productivity 71

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.

How To 129

How To Sales Marketing Productivity 129

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

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. APIs and platforms reduces the time-to-market for products and services.

Construction 120

Construction Airlines Data Travel 120

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. The projections worked fine for about a third of the hotels but were wildly, destructively off for another third.

Hotels 70

Hotels Data Groups Culture 70

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.

Consulting 177

Consulting How To Marketing Hotels 177

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. The housing bubble started to burst. Apple released the first iPhone. So much has changed since then.

Survey 133

Survey Hotels Company Enterprise 133

Tom Spencer

MAY 19, 2023

Exercising is incredibly important when it comes to maintaining a healthy body and mind, so you need to incorporate it into your routine to optimize yourself for a lengthy and productive consulting career. The bottom line is to get in a workout no matter what. Conclusion There is no “one size fits all” time to workout as a consultant.

Exercises 88

Exercises Hotels Engineering Travel 88

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production. Finally, one large change broke the production server. Or have those same risks. Yet, the policies and procedures remain.

Policies 131

Policies Leadership Guidelines Agile 131

Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

The key question is then: Of your product’s attributes, which one should you focus on? We stuck to our original positioning because our customers were convinced our product left their linens cleaner precisely because of its harshness. Consider bottled water.

Case Interview 110

Case Interview Marketing Bain Hotels 110

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.

Retail 71

Retail Hotels Comparison Ethics 71

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

Telecommunications 127

Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 127

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

First, we should agree on a definition of a new market: in our view, it is commerce that brings together products and services with customers in a transaction that did not previously exist. For example, many leading hotel companies moved to an “asset light” model years ago. While they do leverage nontraditional assets (e.g.,

Hotels 70

Hotels Real Estate Accenture Industry 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

Take a cue from other sellers of perishable products with fixed capacities — industries such as airlines, hotels, and car rentals — and employ dynamic pricing. First, demand varies for products, so businesses should employ tactics to accordingly adjust prices. So what should Hamilton have done?

Airlines 117

Airlines Hotels Sports Advertising 117

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. They are the outcomes of dedicated people striving together.

Survey 133

Survey Hotels Interviews Research 133

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 70

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Hotels 70

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 1, 2019

The decisions I make are about my product development and my Costs of Delay. They paid coach airfare and my hotel room for the entire conference because it was a track talk. No hotel reimbursement before or after the two days of the conference. Sometimes, I'm not available. More often, I can't “afford” to do so.

Conference 69

Conference Hotels Travel Consulting 69

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Here are three things that Western investors should want from African entrepreneurs: a focus on the top of the pyramid, control over factors of production, and innovation in distribution rather than in products. Factors of Production. Today his Nice Rice Mill processes 70% of the region’s rice production.

Cash Flow 70

Cash Flow Hotels Case Interview Productivity 70

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It’s rewarding to see your hard work pay off, especially when the client responds positively and engages in productive discussions. My favorite part is meeting in the hotel bars and working together with team members. 12:00 PM – Lunch Break Lunch is usually a quick affair, often spent with the client or my team.

Consulting 78

Consulting Hotels Meeting Automotive 78

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

companies $450 billion to $550 billion per year in lost productivity. 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 145

Company Training Training Culture 145

Tom Spencer

APRIL 4, 2021

Sure, you may be flying business class and staying at some of the finest hotels. But usually, what you will see of a city is the airport, your hotel, and the office you are working from. In many marketing and sales related roles, for instance, you could immediately handle entire products, campaigns, clients, or deals by yourself.

Advertising 88

Advertising Consulting Hotels Travel 88

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2017

If, for example, a consumer mentions an add-on product during a phone conversation, the brand can tailor future interactions accordingly. This might involve a follow-up email with relevant product information and a targeted call-to-action. Digital transformation efforts are incomplete unless they include voice communications.

Hotels 71

Hotels Advertising Travel Survey 71

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

When employees are engaged, they display high levels of enthusiasm, energy, and motivation, which translates into higher levels of job performance, creativity, and productivity. This means not only higher revenues and profits for organizations, but also higher levels of well-being for employees.

Emotional Intelligence 132

Emotional Intelligence Energy Ethics Study 132

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

Judson Manor is a gracious former 1920s luxury hotel near The Cleveland Clinic, Case Western University, and many of the museums and arts institutions in Cleveland, Ohio. In an HBR article , two management school professors found that an age-integrated assembly line resulted in improved productivity, reduced absenteeism, and fewer defects.

Education 137

Education Efficiency Study Hotels 137

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? Instead of focusing on major hotel brands, they pursued the long tail, engaging with more than 1 million inns, B&Bs, and apartment buildings in 200 countries. Core r epositioning.

Methodologies 134

Methodologies Culture Company Metrics 134