This article talks about how going green is helping the housekeeping industry. it went over a lot of what we went over in class where the hotel will offer you incentives to not have your room cleaned every day.

This article is about cyber security. I liked this article because it demonstrates cyber attacks on a smaller scale that still shows a massive inconvenience to those who do not back up their data and do not have their security systems up to date. it is clear to me that the easiest attacks of the future are cyber based and to leave yourself vulnerable to save a few bucks is a thing of the past.

This article is mainly an advertisement about this ProfitSage model, but i think it is worth highlighting because it shows real data about how if you implement the right program for your business model, you can raise your profit margins a ton. This example did it by the ability to instantly obtain working stats about financials, and then compartmentalizing it by region... pretty cool stuff that is probably very difficult to program but awesome to have.

This article is largely about selecting the right point of sale system for the type of business that you are running. this article talks in detail about the different types of reports that can be created by a POS system including module forecasting and determining seasonal demands based on online shopping needs and prior sales reports. by enlarge, it seems like a POS system is starting to bleed into managing the establishment as well and probably for the better with less error.

I think this is an interesting read about a smaller airline that ended up saving money by switching to only GDS ticketing. Their largest profit margins are found in domestic but have kept only their most popular flights. I think that this is an interesting way of maximizing profits but i think it would only work because they do not have a fully automated system. If they tried to expand their airline, i bet they would run into bigger problems with GDS.

This article is mainly about the trust issues that companies have with tech companies and vice versa. Companies need to be more careful when selecting a provider who is going to help their company integrate into a more tech savvy system. However, once they do select a company to help integrate, there needs to be trust that the right integration implements will be in place and that the software will be up and running. This article states that every company wants a taylor-made system for their company which i disagree with because it is going to be more expensive to fix/upgrade. The last notable thing about this article is that it is easier for a smaller hotel chain to have effective use of technology than it is for the larger chains. the article says it's because of the red tape that needs to be cut by CEO's and such.

the main reasons employees are slow to change are a new system in place with the same workload, the culture of the company, individual stress tolerance, and no increase in pay for extra work. It is easy to see why some companies are slow to move over to IS if their workforce tends to be hostile to change without an increase in pay, which can defeat the whole purpose of changing in the first place.