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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO Business Intelligence

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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Ugh! There's an App for That!

Phil Windley

Once in Munich, venturing out of the hotel had its own surprises. We can let the hundreds of Covid-19 health pass apps thrive (or not), secure in the knowledge that people can pick the app they like from a company they trust and still have it work when they travel across borders—or just across town.

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The Problem With Facial Recognition Systems

The Accidental Successful CIO

Instead, all an employee has to do to gain access to an area or an application is to show a computer their face and then they are in. The Challenges Of Facial Recognition Systems Facial-recognition systems have been long touted as a quick and dependable way to identify everyone from employees to hotel guests. Uber uses Microsoft Corp.’s

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- Hackathoning Government

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

The Hackathon is sponsored by two phenomenal local tech companies, Socrata and Tropo. Developers will converge on the Edgewater Hotel on (duh) Seattle’s waterfront. They’ll have 24 hours to use government datasets to create interesting applications.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

Walk into a youth hostel or budget hotel in any exotic country around the world, and you’re more than likely to see someone reading a guidebook from Lonely Planet, the dominant global brand in budget travel. Far more than at any time before, companies can participate in shaping the evolving structure of the economy.

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If it is always “Day 1” at Amazon, it is Day 10 in Government

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

So says Jeff Bezos , Founder of Amazon, soon to be a trillion dollar company , in his annual letter to Amazon’s stakeholders. Try getting a driver’s license or not paying your taxes. Every private company and every government has bureaucracy, process, and procedures to do its business. Followed by excruciating, painful decline.

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7 steps to prepare your organisation for changes to Australia’s privacy legislation

CIO Business Intelligence

Delete old data I lived in Hong Kong 2008-2013 and one of my most pleasurable weekends was a trip to see an incredible band at the MGM hotel in Macau. That company I helped had a significant reduction in their CDP licensing cost post clean-up.

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