Strategy and Disruptive Innovation in the Hospitality Industry 1

Strategy and Disruptive Innovation in the Hospitality Industry

1. Discuss one or both of the following two topics: 

· What is strategy?

· What are different types of strategy?

2. What is Design Thinking? Examples of Design as a Business Strategy

3. Read “The Biggest Obstacles to Innovation” and responds to the following prompt: Based on the reading, what are the most common barriers to innovation and how to overcome them?

4. Identify a real-world Innovation Lab and the innovation(s) they’re responsible for. What can you find out about how they’re set up or operate? What might an Innovation Lab look like for Hospitality?

5. Identify and discuss a blue ocean strategy in the hospitality industry.

6. Conduct a SWOT Analysis of different types of business models.

7. How should Hospitality prepare for the next global pandemic?

8. What are the roots of unethical behavior and how does one behave ethically?

9. Why do we resist change and how can we overcome our resistance (individually and collectively)?

10. What have you learned about disruptive innovation in the hospitality industry?