Vijay Dandapani
Vijay Dandapani
Since August 1993, Vijay Dandapani, the President and Chief Operating Officer of Apple Core Hotels, has been instrumental in the company's growth and development, including acquisitions, six hotel renovations and the implementation of state-of-the-art computer systems. A hotel industry veteran, Dandapani, is also a member of the Board of Directors for the following associations: Hotel Association of New York City, NYC & Company, NYSHTA (New York State Hospitality & Tourism Association), and the International Hotel Motel & Restaurant Show at Javits.
Web Police? Google knows best
That Google is referee & judge to any and everything dependent on its search engine has long been a source of joy to some...
Innovation: scourge or blessing?
Avoiding Innovation's Terrible Toll is the headline for an article in the Wall Street Journal's management section which explores the life span of corporations....
Leadership in a digital marketplace
The McKinsey Quarterly, a publication from the consulting powerhouse, McKinsey & Company, recently put out a practice brief entitled "How centered leaders achieve extraordinary...
e-commerce: attracting sales and talent
Open source financial website Finchannel notes despite the fact that several pre-holiday surveys have confirmed shoppers' intentions to spend either the same or less...
Digital Waste: Dumping on Social Media
WPP affiliate and cutting-edge market researcher TNS Global has come out with a study that suggests putting a brake on the shifting of marketing...
Engaging customers via employees
The prolonged recession, NBER's definition notwithstanding, has challenged companies, big and small, when it comes to employee engagement. Assuming a forthcoming emergence (doubtful to...
Longevity and the sage consumer
Consulting firm ATKearney has come out with a path breaking consumer study spanning 23 countries including population giants India and China that foretells an...
Diversity marketing: when not to ask or tell
In an agnostic business environment found in most parts of the Western world it is expected that purveyors of products and services will not...
Ancillary fees as revenue enhancers: turning chump into chunk change
Fees for "ancillary" services have been proliferating across industries for the past several years with airlines and hotels being at the forefront in coming...
White noise: tne x-factor on lowering the boom on decibels?
A recent report in the Wall Street Journal notes that "the hottest tracks on digital playlists (are) sounds of an oscillating fan, a waterfall...
Divining consumer intent: reading tea leaves?
Major property damage, thousands of canceled flights and some opportunistic price-gouging by a few merchants including hotels in the wake of Hurricane Irene all...
Cookies on steroids: Caveat emptor for consumers?
A recent Wall Street Journal report about "stealthy super-cookies" has expectedly alarmed privacy advocates and consumers. The Journal article citing research findings from Stanford...
Crisis PR: why the turtle approach won’t work
The social paroxysms roiling Britain seem to have upended the country's tourism czars historically cool-under-fire response mechanism. Visit Britain, the country's official tourism promotion...
Taking the air out of bnb?
Early last week the Wall Street Journal reported that "the billion-dollar start-up club has a new member: Airbnb Inc. (the) San Francisco Internet company,...
Psychometrics: how not to fit square pegs (employees) in round holes (jobs)
Businesses of all stripes spend gobs of money every year in trying to get a read on their consumers using a range of pyschometric...
Predicting pricing power: A mug’s game?
Hotel giant Marriott International's shares slipped 8% when the company came out with a tepid forecast for the rest of the year that lowered...
Customer for satisfaction: reaching beyond the sky?
A recent survey by Atlanta based Polaris a full service market research company found that "fully one-third of Americans believe customer service is...
Excelling at XL
Health issues are certainly a big factor behind the demographics that point to larger and heavier customers with over two thirds of the US...
mCommerce: Not all it is cracked up to be?
Late last week a Forrester analyst released a portentously titled report "The Mobile Commerce Train: Coming But Not Here Yet" that immediately garnered considerable...
Gaming for talent
News on the US' unemployment rate remains relentlessly dreary with national ratio stuck stubbornly past the 9% mark. Nevertheless, there are pockets of paucity...