Social Business: Where It's Been & Where It's Going
"Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future". - T A Sachs I've always been a firm believer that in order to look to the future, we must look back to and fully grasp the past (and the present). Having had several recent engaging conversations with smart people who I respect, I've picked up a hint of exhaustion around usage of the word "social". Could it be that some who saw the "change" coming years ago are weary of having carried that torch for so many years as we move into the heavy lifting? It's natural to want to move to the next thing—but I'm convinced that today we are largely still talking about the "social media" era. The best of "social business" is yet to come in my opinion and we have a lot of work to do in between. Digital: The Interactive RevolutionWhen I entered the workplace—the world was already in the process of going digital. Digital Media: Information Goes OnlineThe second wave of the digital revolution began to gain steam as the internet became move pervasive.
Aspects juridiques de la vente de voyage sur Internet
Comme de nombreux autres secteurs économiques, le secteur du tourisme a été gagné lui aussi par la fièvre de la vente numérique. Voilà maintenant plus de 10 ans que les consommateurs ont de plus en plus recours à Internet pour réserver leur billet d’avion, de train ou encore pour se confectionner un voyage. Pour cela ils n’ont qu’à se rendre sur l’un des nombreux sites dédiés à la vente en ligne de voyages : Opodo.fr, Lasminute.com, Expedia.fr, pour ne citer que les plus connus. Toutefois, la vente traditionnelle de voyage en agence continue de représenter une part importante du chiffre d‘affaire dégagé par ce secteur, ce qui s’explique par le besoin d’échange et de proximité exprimé par certains consommateurs. C’est la loi du 13 juillet 1992 qui a pendant longtemps régi la vente de voyage. Le droit de rétractation de 7 jours francs laissé au consommateur en matière de vente à distance reçoit une exception dans le cadre d’une offre de vente de voyage sur Internet.
SCAMPER - Creativity Tools from MindTools
Improving Products and Services This tool can help you develop new products and services. © iStockphoto/aladin66 It can often be difficult to come up with new ideas when you're trying to develop or improve a product or service. This is where creative brainstorming techniques like SCAMPER can help. This tool helps you generate ideas for new products and services by encouraging you to think about how you could improve existing ones. We'll look at SCAMPER in this article. About the Tool SCAMPER is a mnemonic that stands for: Substitute.Combine.Adapt.Modify.Put to another use.Eliminate.Reverse. You use the tool by asking questions about existing products, using each of the seven prompts above. Alex Osborn, credited by many as the originator of brainstorming, originally came up with many of the questions used in the technique. Note: Remember that the word "products" doesn't only refer to physical goods. How to Use the Tool SCAMPER is really easy to use. First, take an existing product or service. Adapt
Projet de loi de développement et de modernisation des services touristiques
CHAPITRE UNIQUE - Des agents de voyage et autres opérateurs de la vente de voyages et de séjours Article 1er - (Titre Ier du livre II du code du tourisme) - Réforme du régime de la vente de voyages et de séjours Commentaire : Le présent article tend à réformer le régime juridique de la vente de voyages et de séjours en supprimant le principe d'exclusivité applicable aux agences de voyages et en remplaçant les différents régimes existants d'autorisation par un dispositif déclaratif unique pour l'ensemble des vendeurs de voyages, afin de mettre en compatibilité notre législation avec la directive « services » et de simplifier l'organisation administrative du secteur. I. A. Au lendemain de la mise en place des congés payés et du départ de 6 millions de Français en vacances pendant l'été 1936, la loi du 19 mars 1937 institue une licence pour les agences de voyage, dont la création n'était auparavant soumise à aucune condition. B. - de voyages ou de séjours individuels ou collectifs ;
World Changing Ideas: 20 Ways to Build a Cleaner, Healthier, Smarter World
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Six Ideas That Will Change the World
The Next Plastic Plastic has changed little since its heyday in the 1960s. It's still ubiquitous, oil based, and dirty as hell for the environment. Makes you wonder what we've been doing all these years. For one thing, not listening enough to chemist Geoffrey Coates. In his lab at Cornell University, he's been reinventing plastic. The key is limonene, a citrusy-smelling chemical compound made from orange rinds that when oxidized and mixed with carbon dioxide and a catalyst can be turned into a solid plastic. Since 1999, when Coates and his colleagues first began experimenting with limonene, they've discovered a number of other natural materials, such as pine trees and soybeans, that can be manipulated into biodegradable polymers as well. While Coates's natural polymers are more expensive to produce than most current plastics, he stresses that this isn't just another radical innovation that will never make it out of the lab. --Doug Cantor
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The Bootstrapper's Bible
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Disrupt and Delight: 5 Principles for Sustainable Brand Innovation
Raphael Bemporad speaking at Sustainable Brands 2012 According to Raphael Bemporad of BBMG, we live in an age of radical contradiction. There’s universal hit of the economic downturn and hoarse voices filled with pain at 99% rallies, but at the same time, there is the tremendous hope which got President Obama elected – the same hope that keeps us working in the sustainable business trenches to make business better. When he took to the stage at Sustainable Brands 2012 Bemporad shared an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote which aptly describes sustainability practitioners at this moment in time: “The true test of a first-rate mind is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time.” With that context, Bemporad shared BBMG’s challenge to brands: Disrupt and Delight. 1. People who share an idea about what’s sacred can work together more cohesively because the shared understanding breeds trust. 2. BBMG looks to the same principles to deliver sustainable brand innovation. 3. 4. 5.
