Old System
12 Jul
2022

Why Tech Projects Go Wrong

 I have been involved in a lot of tech projects across the years. I take a rigorous approach to projects that involve introducing new technology to a business. The idea is to reduce the inherent risk and this has worked well.
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Clocks
27 Apr
2022

When is the time right for new tech?

 There is no getting away from the fact that updating your travel business’s tech is a pain in the neck, but how do you know when the time is right and you need to take the plunge?
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Crying
24 Jan
2022

Let’s Get Emotional

 There are very few other products being sold online that have as much emotional pulling power as a holiday. A vacation is the stuff of dreams, but also of detailed ongoing research and of high capital outlay. For many families, the most they will spend on a single item in a typical year is the purchase of their annual holiday.
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Zoom
05 May
2020

Zooming Up

 Did you buy Zoom shares at the start of the Coronavirus crisis? I didn’t, unfortunately. They were hovering around $70 until the end of January then started a steady rise hitting a peak of about $160 on 23 March.
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Voice
06 Jan
2020

Voice – The New Super Aggregator

 With a New Year starting it’s always fun to look ahead at what technology might be bringing us. One of the most exciting tech developments over the last few years has been the rise of voice devices.
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Monarch
25 Sep
2019

Thomas Cook and Butterflies

 It’s about two years ago that my Monarch Airlines tickets became worthless when the Monarch Travel Group collapsed. I wasn’t too badly off.
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Video Killed The Radio Star
29 Jan
2019

Video Killed the Radio Star

 Retailers need to sell where the customers are. Wind back quite a few centuries and markets would probably have been the predominant shopping channel. As towns built up, the high street came to dominate as a convenient place to shop. Then came the shopping centres.
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The Disloyal Customer
17 Dec
2018

The Disloyal Customer

 I was at a conference the other day and, whilst awaiting the first speaker’s presentation, I was chatting with the lady next to me. I am not sure how it came up in conversation, but the subject we started talking about was customer loyalty programmes and their associated loyalty cards.
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Multi Modal
28 Oct
2018

Is Multi-Modal the next big thing?

 Quite a few years ago (pre-Internet) I was commissioned to carry out a feasibility study for a large telecommunications organisation. The idea was to test the concept of an electronic transport marketplace (ETM) covering the whole of mainland United Kingdom.
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Library
21 Aug
2018

Information Banks - A Vision of the Future

 Catalysed by the recent hive of activity surrounding GDPR, a few strands of thought from the past and present have come together in my mind to extrapolate a view on how our personal information might be managed in the far future.
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