Jour : 18 novembre 2025
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#ai #consulting #digitaltransformation #ai #strategy | Alex Richards | 12 comments
McKinsey & Company just admitted the quiet part out loud: the traditional consulting business model is collapsing with AI as the accelerant. And rivals are scrambling to keep pace. Business Insider reports that 25% of McKinsey & Company’s global fees now come from outcomes-based pricing, not billable hours. That’s a direct challenge to the old…
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Cloudflare is down, bringing X, ChatGPT, Spotify, Anthropic’s Claude and many others with it. A few weeks ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a massive outage that brought to their knees many… | Gregory Mermoud | 20 comments
Cloudflare is down, bringing X, ChatGPT, Spotify, Anthropic‘s Claude and many others with it. A few weeks ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a massive outage that brought to their knees many services. Two thoughts: 1/ Maybe it is time to rethink our strategy here? The Internet was designed to be fundamentally decentralized, yet financial…
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Google Is Building Agentic Travel Booking, Plus Other Travel AI Updates
Google is developing an agentic tool for booking flights and hotels, the company said Monday, as it unveiled several new travel features tied to its artificial intelligence and search systems. The ambition is to turn AI Mode into a travel hub that can plan trips and help users complete them. In a blog post, Google…
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🛌 Bed Time Stories by Testbed Vegas – 17 Nov 2025
Plenty of time down on the Boulevard last week to catch up on all the latest news. We’ll give you the Testbed Vegas perspective on what it means for our fair valley and where we think it might be going. Everything you need for a Las Vegas driven dreamscape! This week, the news cycle in…
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When Google’s AI Becomes Your Travel Agent: Which Hotels Make the Cut?
Google just rolled out new AI-powered features in Search that can plan a trip, find deals, and turn your ideas into bookings. All from a single prompt. So I tried it. I asked Google’s AI mode: “Suggest highly-rated hotels for a family visit to London this Christmas.” Here’s what it came back with: “For a…
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When Google’s AI Becomes Your Travel Agent: Which Hotels Make the Cut?
Google just rolled out new AI-powered features in Search that can plan a trip, find deals, and turn your ideas into bookings. All from a single prompt. So I tried it. I asked Google’s AI mode: “Suggest highly-rated hotels for a family visit to London this Christmas.” Here’s what it came back with: “For a…
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New ways to plan travel with AI in Search
Then, AI Mode will show you a curated list to choose from, with direct links so you can finalize your booking through partners like OpenTable, Resy, Tock, Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, Booksy, Fresha and Vagaro.Agentic booking for restaurants is rolling out this week on AI Mode in the U.S. (no Labs opt-in required), so…
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Luxury hospitality is built on connection, not algorithms: Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group CEO – HOTELSMag.com
Luxury hospitality isn’t built on manuals or presentations. It’s built on something far more enduring: human connection. In an age of predictive algorithms and AI-powered everything, it’s tempting to believe that technology can deliver luxury better, faster, smarter. It can’t. Technology can personalize a stay, but it can’t make a guest feel seen. Algorithms can predict preferences,…
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#hoteldistribution #revenueoptimisation #directbookings #otastrategy | Thibault Catala
If I were starting a hotel distribution strategy from scratch… This is the exact 5-step playbook I would follow: Step 1: Apply the 80/20 rule. Identify and deploy the 20% of channels that will drive 80% of your performance. (Spoiler alert: you already know them..). Yes there are (heavy?) commissions associated to it but thats…
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Issue 95: A Bulletin for Big Ideas and Better Business
ISSUE 95/ OPINION / Creativity 💬 Brian Collins Brian Collins is co-founder and chief creative officer of COLLINS, a transformation design company in San Francisco and New York City. In the spring of 1974, a young man set out to direct a movie about a shark. The movie’s giant, expensive, mechanical shark promptly disintegrated the moment…
