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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. It is the brains of everything — our core system. “It

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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. Beyond health pass applications, things like mobile drivers licenses need to be interoperable to be useful. To get back in the US, I had to show evidence of a negative Covid-19 test conducted no more than three days prior to my arrival in the US.

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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.

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- Hackathoning Government

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

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. At 5:00 PM on Sunday, we’ll be judging applications for those which are most useful, interesting, unique or maybe just cool.

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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. Strategic positioning in the flow economy. The six elements of the flow economy.

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

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Try getting a driver’s license or not paying your taxes. I recently stayed at a Hilton Hotel which had a happy hour with free beer. In a more substantial example, I needed assistance on a social security and Medicare application. Governments have been around for dozens, hundreds of years. Are governments irrelevant?