Summary: Selling The Business / Blok 2

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  • 6 EXAM preparation

  • 6.1 ILO commercial

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  • What influences commercial department structure?

    • Size
    • ownership 
    • management 
  • What's the difference between a direct and indirect dfistribution channel?

    A channel where guests book directly with the hotel without any intermediaries/third parties involved.
    A channel where a third-party intermediary (tussenpersoon) sits between the hotel and the guest.
  • Key difference between a franchise and a chain/brand hotel?

    In a franchise (like Holiday Inn Express), the owner pays to use the brand but operates independently. In a chain hotel, the corporation owns or leases the property and operates it directly - they have full operational and financial control.
  • 6.2 ILO Research

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  • Steps for conduction experiments:


    1. Selecting matched groups of subjects 
    2. giving them different treatments 
    3. controlling unrelated factors 
    4. checking for differences in group responses
  • 6.3 ILO Innovation

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  • Difference between sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation:

    Sustaining innovation: 
  • Improvements to existing products for existing customers
  • Example: iPhone 14 → iPhone 15 (better camera, faster processor)
  • Companies continue serving their current customers with better products
  • disruptive innovation: 
  • Creates a new market or completely changes an existing market
  • Often starts in a niche market with customers ignored by large companies
  • Initially "worse" than existing products, but cheaper and more accessible
  • What are the 4 Ps of innovation:

    • Paradigm innovation: changes in business model (partnering with airlines)
      • outcome: long-term competitive advantages through revenue stream diversification
    • process innovation: changes in the way products / services are delivered (digital housekeeping checklist) (HOW you do something) INTERNAL CHANGE
      • outcome: increased efficiency (lower costs) (internal change)
    • position innovation: changes in the context with product / services are delivered (conference rooms re-branded to content room (FOR WHO OR WHERE EXTERNAL CHANGE
      • outcome: new markets / market segment
    • product innovation (changes in the products or services (vegan menu)
      • outcome: increase revenue (higher prices or higher demand)
  • What is a good investment? How to justify spending money in innovations?

    • ROI (return on investment): what is the minimum acceptable return 
      • (total benefits - total costs) : total cost x 100 
    • payback time: how long before you need to earn money back 
  • What do the appropriability problem & tech model of innovation explain?

    These concepts explain why innovators often don't capture the value they create - and what they need to do to actually profit from their innovations.
  • The three factors who determine who profits: (1)

    1. Regime of appropriability ( how easy is it to protect your innovation from being copied? 
      1. trademarks, copyright, trade secrets that are hard to reverse, high tacit knowledge (knowledge that is hard to copy)
      2. fashion design= weak (easy to copy, limited protection) / coca-cola formula= strong (trade secret 100+ years)
  • Who controles complementary assets?

    This is CRITICAL - whoever controls the specialized/co-specialized complementary assets often captures the value!
    Apple iPhone:
    • Innovation: Touch screen smartphone
    • Complementary assets: Brand, retail stores, App Store ecosystem, manufacturing relationships
    • Result: Apple controls assets → Apple profits massively
    • HOSPITALITY: Hotel Innovation vs. OTA Control
      • Independent Restaurant vs. Delivery Platform
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