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Home - TM Forum Inform. 7 Reasons You Should Launch White Papers Like Products. Product launches can be incredibly powerful tools for uniting an organization. Have you considered launching your white papers like products? Product launches: * touch most, if not all, media channels. * distribute a few core messages across different audiences. * educate on benefits and offer a strong call to action. * build momentum with sales, PR, marketing and support. If you replace the words product launch with white papers, you’ll see that white papers share the same powerful attributes as product launches. Add to this the many studies that show white papers are among the most powerful sales tools available, and you should be wondering: Why don’t I launch white papers like products? Fortunately, a new method of launching white papers enables companies to gain tens of thousands of dollars in free advertising reach from a single white paper.

The White Paper Launch Method Companies are turning to the white paper launch method to increase leads, customers and influence. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Envisioning Technology. Inbox (200) - eric - Ameya Mail. News, Media - Libanet. Back to ListingApril 2014 Libanet innovates with the CQMS, a new quality management system that brings efficiency to airports and aircrafts facilities management services April 28, 2014 – Libanet, the leading aviation industry services provider, announced it has launched a new innovative quality management technology, the Computerized Quality Management System (CQMS), with a main objective of customer and end-user satisfaction.

The announcement comes at a time where the Middle East is considered to be one of the fastest growing region regarding travel and tourism. Indeed, the Middle East’s air passenger traffic is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.7% between 2012 and 2032, outpacing other traditional routes such as Europe and North America, according to a report by Alpen Capital This is due to the economic growth in the area, while some major Middle Eastern airports and airlines companies have announced expansion plans. - Ends – About Libanet. Www.fool.com/investor-alert/rule-breakers/rb-nfcwest/?iid=92335987&testId=video-nfc&campaign=rb-nfc&repeatecap=n&vsaid=8627&cellId=0. Grab the closest pair of scissors!

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I know it doesn’t look like much compared to the latest, high-tech smartphones you see every day. Yet in just a few minutes, you’ll discover… How this simple little phone could soon strong-arm the major credit card companies out of an estimated $6.57 billion each year… Why, according to Forbes, it will set off an era of “unprecedented growth” in the one industry you’d least expect... Best of all? It’s 100% real. Or was it? Guest Blog: Airline Loyalty Applied to Low-Costs’ Business Model: the Next Big Thing. Claus Berger from Air Scoop discusses airline loyalty for low-cost airlines business models. Airline loyalty has been, is and will often be neglected in the airline industry. This statement appears even acuter when it comes to low-cost carriers which sometimes disregard loyalty and aggressively focus on low fares instead.

This would be a mistake as the ability to retain customers will be an opportunity to seize. Low fares is no longer enough Arguably, one could consider that low-cost carriers have achieved their goal and imposed a new modus operandi to the whole airline industry. Thanks to companies such as Southwest, Ryanair or Air Asia, the air transport industry has finally become accessible to the mass and broke free of its elitist chains.

However, things are changing fast. Ironically, as passengers grow accustomed to lower fares, the notion of "cheap and cheerful" is set to be increasingly challenged. How to mix airline loyalty and a low-cost business model? Related In "Airlines" Pieter Elbers, KLM: How airlines can meet the demands of the future traveller. KLM’s COO takes the stage on a day when France’s flag carrier, Air France is striking – the irony of which is not lost on Elbers. Opening his presentation, Mr Elbers outlines what KLM as a brand aims to portray – Dutch, inspiration, open and reliable. Recent events such as the Icelandic ash cloud have led to the need for dramatic change in communication – and KLM are at the forefront of this.

KLM use social media to communicate with passengers and are probably the most successful airline in this area. Press releases for communication have had their day as far as KLM are concerned. Serving 61 countries with 131 destinations, the world has changed and traditional methods no longer apply. And sometimes there are just bad days – weather, security complications and other issues that are not in the airline’s control.

Soon KLM will be looking at bag tags – another area which will actually add more pressure on to staff. Another area for improvement is anticipating new customer segments. Interview: What are the biggest challenges as an aviation service provider to create a great passenger experience? What are the biggest challenges as an aviation service provider to create a great passenger experience? We spoke to Dominic Clarke, Head of Sales for Datalex and he answered some of our burning questions about the airline industry and passenger experience. Dominic's background is primarily airline, with 10 years at British Airways followed by 8 years working for technology providers to airlines.

That included working in the internet booking engine space, PSS, mobile, and then now travel retail with Datalex. Datalex provides a leading retail platform for airlines. They power over 50 airlines globally, including some of the biggest and best innovators in this space including Delta Air Lines, Frontier, Aer Lingus and WestJet. Fundamentally, Datalex help airlines become better retailers, enabling them to dynamically offer tailored products and price to the customer at every touch point in their journey. One of the biggest challenges we see is the mind-set of the airline. What do you think?

Top 3 points: Making The Business Case For Retail Travelling. Mark Lenahan, was therefore in a great position to lead the ‘Making The Business Case For Retail Travelling’ round-table. Below are three key points, he believes you should take away from the discussion: 1. It is the “mind set” that makes a retailer, this comes before structure, technology or processes. The retailer mind set is not to focus on one product line but rather to serve as many of the customer’s needs as possible – whether with you own or third party products. One example of this mind set is who the retailer sees as a competitor. 2. 3. Related Why don’t airlines think like retailers? Why don’t airlines think like retailers?

In "Featured on App" What Makes An Airline A Retailer? OpenJaw Technologies, founded in 2002, offer high performance distribution solutions to leading travel companies. In "Featured Videos" Tags: openjaw, retail travelling. Www.terrapinn.com/template/Live/PDF/Top-5-Airport-Terminals/6138/11410/dG9wNWFpcnBvcnR0ZXJtaW5hbHMucGRm. A Perspective - Adoption and Challenges of New Distribution Capability. 616439main_nextgen-graphic.jpg (JPEG Image, 1251 × 808 pixels) - Scaled (81%) The 8 Different Types Of Traveller. There's no doubt about it - you meet some characters on your travels. From the super-organised to the sun-lounger hoggers, we run through the 8 different types of travellers you will undoubtedly meet on your gap year, career break, or holidays. 1. Uber Traveller So organised they've highlighted possible itineraries in the guidebook - with this traveller you'll never need to worry about what train to catch to reach the airport on time, where to go for that birthday dinner, or whether or not you'll end up with massive parking charges because they forgot to book in advance.

The Uber Traveller will take care of everything, and enjoys doing so. 2. Our Desperate Traveller may have highlighted their guidebook too, but you'll find almost every page is pink, orange or yellow. 3. 4. Quite often this is someone with a busy day job who is looking upon this trip as a vacation from everything. 5. The Chatty Traveller's trip revolves around people. 6.

We've all been here. 7. 8. More blog posts. Digital Economy | Paul Stacey. A Systems Approach to Open June 1, 2014, 10:28 am Filed under: Creative Commons, Digital Economy, Innovation, Open Access, Open Educational Resources (OER) | Tags: BCcampus, creative commons, global food safety partnership, herbshare, OER, open access, open data, open government, Open Hardware, open licensing, open source seed initiative, open source software, open textbook summit, shared earth, Systems approach In the 1990’s I worked for Hughes Aircraft of Canada developing large scale air traffic control systems for international customers around the world.

Air traffic control systems are large, complex, mission critical systems. After extensive requirements gathering and analysis an overall architecture for the air traffic control system was defined including complete hardware and software requirements. This kind of approach is called systems engineering. Increasingly I see a systems approach to open as being the most strategic and impactful. Let me give a couple of examples. The Technology of Us. StreetPin. No Business is Too Big to Fail or Too Small to Succeed - Sobering stats on business failures. InShare334 We live in an era of what I refer to as Digital Darwinism, a time when technology and society are evolving faster than the ability of many organizations to adapt. Over the years, I’ve studied how disruptive technology affects consumer behavior and decision-making.

I’ve also researched how businesses react (or don’t) to these changes. What I’ve learned is that barring a few exceptional instances of complete ignorance, organizations are open to adaptation if there’s indeed a case made for it and a path outlined to safely and cost-effectively navigate change. Part of the problem is that decision makers and stakeholders react to shareholders and not necessarily customers or markets.

To mark the occasion of my upcoming book, What’s the Future of Business: Changing the way businesses create experiences, I worked with the team at Barnickel Design in New York to create an infographic that tells the chilling story of the effects of Digital Darwinism and a changing consumer landscape. Virtual Tours for Colleges, Real Estate, Hotels & More | YouVisit. Authoring contextually aware Apps — Thing Face. Authoring contextually aware Apps As the Internet of Things provides more and more powerful, compelling objects to program — it will become increasingly important to have tools for non-programmers to control and publish content to these intelligent, low-powered devices, kiosks, sensors and mobile handsets.

In fact these tools will not be programming tools at all. They will be authoring tools designed to build contextually aware, personalized Apps that will know WHO you are, WHAT time it is and what date, WHERE you are, WHEN it’s appropriate to include others and WHY you should care about this App — in the first place. The key thing is that these tools will be utilized by Authors, not Programmers — as programming is too far removed and complex for most creative, intelligent authors to master. With BigData changing the landscape and mainstream “artificial intelligence” systems finally appearing it’s now possible to build Apps that only a few years ago seemed like science fiction. Trends driving our research agenda. Faced with budget constraints, governments at all levels are taking a hard look at how services can be delivered more cost-effectively.

We believe information technology will continue to play a big role in public sector efficiencies.A research driven initiative to monitor and assess effective e-government implementations is needed. Public Tech Views was created in response to requests from public sector professionals for objective analysis of key trends driving changes in the sector. Our research will focus on policy development and implementation best practices. We start with the following ten trends in mind: Consumerization. As citizens become more comfortable with all things digital, changes in personal habits and preferences are driving new expectations.

Citizens want public-sector services to be comparable to the best in the private sector, with greater transparency and access. Collaborative Finance. Build A Bazaar Best Ecommerce Software to build an Online Store - Build a Bazaar. الطريقة الأفضل لتصميم البرامج السياحية وحجز الفنادق والعروض السياحية فى جميع بلدان العالم. Hotel Booking in Middle East & Turkey +2500 Hotels, Resorts & Apartments. Ahmad Sufian Bayram's blog. Cleartrip | Flights, Hotels & Packages. Book Travel Packages, Holidays, Vacations to more than 200 countries | HolidayMe.com. Souq raises an additional $75m from Naspers. 4 Ways to Innovate in Online Travel in the Middle East. How Entrepreneurs Are Innovating Their Way Out of Traffic. Beam Wallet gets its first investment from Majid al Futtaim. The Rise of Collaborative Consumption in Arab Countries | Ahmad Sufian Bayram's blog.

Arab countries are no different than other countries. There are now three generally accepted ideas as to what is going on around the world’s consumer markets, and can be found in the Arab world: Firstly, there is an ongoing paradigm shift about what it means to own a car, a bicycle, a household appliance, a book, a film or a piece of clothing. The value of a product is beginning to be seen in terms of its use, not in its outright ownership, as per traditional consumer models Secondly, there is an increased level of acceptance of used products, thanks partly to the popularity of online platforms for buying and selling used goods. Finally, people are also adopting what could be called collaborative lifestyles, in which not only goods are shared but people share their time, space and expertise.

In the book What’s Mine Is Yours, Rachel Botsman argues that: Please help us to get more understating about collaborative consumption in Arab Countries. How do you see it? Collaborative Consumption | Ahmad Sufian Bayram's blog. TIME Magazine names Collaborative Consumption as one of the “1o ideas that will change the world”. The main concept behind collaborative consumption is the change from consumption as the buying of goods that are owned by individual, to system that allow access to products as a service, this change might be as profound as the industrial revolution whether you call it collaborative consumption or the sharing economy is about acknowledging that there’s more to gain by sharing than by owning. From the Wikipedia they defined the Collaborative Consumption: "The term collaborative consumption is used to describe the cultural and economic force away from 'hyper-consumption' to re-invented economic models of sharing, swapping, bartering, trading or renting that have been enabled by advances in social media and peer-to-peer online platforms.

There are also two distinct ways to participate in Collaborative Consumption, each with different appeal to different people. I. II. Technology: Community: Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2013–2018. February 5, 2014 The Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Updateis part of the comprehensive Cisco VNI Forecast, an ongoing initiative to trackand forecast the impact of visual networking applications on global networks. This paper presents some of Cisco’s major global mobile datatraffic projections andgrowth trends. Executive Summary The Mobile Network in 2013 Global mobile data traffic grew 81 percent in 2013. Last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 18 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. Mobile video traffic exceeded 50 percent for the first time in 2012.

Over half a billion (526 million) mobile devices and connections were added in 2013. Globally, smart devices represented 21 percent of the total mobile devices and connections in 2013, they accounted for 88 percent of the mobile data traffic. Mobile network connection speeds more than doubled in 2013. Average smartphone usage grew 50 percent in 2013. 2013 Year in Review Table 1. 10 Cool Marketing Automation Startups to Watch. 8 Big Trends in Big Data Analytics. Watching You Shop: Stores And Mannequins “Read” Their Customers And Respond. 15 Ecommerce Blogs You Should Be Following - Referral Marketing Blog. An Overview of the Major Google Algorithm Updates of 2014.

The Future of Sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ [INFOGRAPHIC] Dynamics Inc. - ePlate® Connected Citizens. 20 Combinatorial Forecasts Map. IFTF 20 Combinatorial Forecasts. The Future Digital City. Digital Cities need Open Data, Linked Data and Digital Graffiti : datalysator. Marc's Voice » Digital Cities and a virtuous circle of training and volunteerism. The Interconnected World of Tech Companies. Compare Smartphones -- Interactive. Factiva - Dow Jones. The Billion-Dollar Startup Club. WeWork: Now a $5 Billion Co-Working Startup.

CFOs: Embrace Digital or Put Your Company’s Future at Risk. Home. Customer Commitment | Honeywell Aerospace. Daum Kakao to enter taxi app frayMobile World Live. LINE Pay gets global launchMobile World Live. Snapchat partners with Square to let users send each other cashMobile World Live. $250M funding for Adyen shows rise of online, mobile paymentsMobile World Live. LINE Pay gets global launchMobile World Live. Social media and the law: tips for businesses | Media Network. From net neutrality to copyright: media law trends for 2015 | Media Network. BlackBerry CEO says long-term China plan won’t include takeoverMobile World Live. Obama, FCC take differing stance on net nuetralityMobile World Live. AlcaLu CTO welcomes small cell competition; dismisses balloons/drones as “quirky”Mobile World Live. Google signs up Telstra for Project Loon testing — reportMobile World Live. Worldwide Smartphone Growth Forecast to Slow: IDC -

How Wearable Technology Will Change Our Life in 2015. Top Marketing Trends 2015. 5 Luxury Travel Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2015. DHCC_Infographic_Medical-tourism-from-January-to-June-2014-English.jpg (JPEG Image, 1332 × 933 pixels) - Scaled (76%) Mena travel tourism 2014 infographic - بحث Google‏ DR4WARD Dr. William J. Ward on Pinterest. FutureoftravelGCC3.jpg (JPEG Image, 2000 × 1414 pixels) - Scaled (51%) Infographics - Social Media Chimps. 3 Online Marketing Trends To Take Advantage Of. Saudi Arabia set to spearhead growth in GCC tourism sector.

Dave Troy: Social maps that reveal a city's intersections — and separations. GlobalWebIndex - Know Your Audience™ | Make Smarter Marketing Decisions.