Hospitality Management and Digital Transformation
Balancing Efficiency, Agility and Guest Experience in the Era of Disruption
Business and Digital Transformation Series

Hospitality managers are at a critical inflection point. Digital technology advancements are ramping up guest expectations and introducing nontraditional competitors that are beginning to disrupt the whole industry. The hospitality managers whose organizations are to thrive need to get their organizations into a position where they can effectively leverage digital technologies to simultaneously deliver breakthroughs in efficiency, agility, and guest experience.

Hospitality Management and Digital Transformation is a much-needed guidebook to digital disruption and transformation for current and prospective hospitality and leisure managers. The book:

? Explains digital technology advancements, how they cause disruption, and the implications of this disruption for hospitality and leisure organizations.

? Explains the digital business and digital transformation imperative for hospitality and leisure organizations.

? Discusses the different digital capabilities required to effectively compete as a digital business.

? Discusses the new and/or enhanced roles hospitality and leisure managers need to play in effecting the different digital capabilities, as well as the competencies required to play these roles.

? Discusses how hospitality and leisure managers can keep up with digital technology advancements.

? Unpacks more than 36 key digital technology advancements, discussing what they are, how they work, and how they can be implemented across the hospitality and leisure industry.

This book will be useful for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying strategic management, IT, information systems, or digital business?related courses as part of degrees in hospitality and leisure management; as well as practitioners studying for professional qualifications.

Part I: Digital Technology Advancements, Digital Disruption, and Digital Business Transformation

1. Introduction and Need for This Book
2. IT, Information Systems, Strategic Information Systems and Digital Technologies
3. Digital Technology Advancements and Digital Disruption: Game Changing Opportunities and Existential Threats
4. Digital Business, the Digital Business Imperative, and Digital Business Transformation

Part II: Digital Disruption and Digital Transformation in the Hospitality and Leisure Industry

5. Digital Disruption and Digital Transformation in the Hospitality and Leisure Industry
6. Impact of Digital Disruption and Digital Transformation on Hospitality and Leisure Managers

Part III: Leveraging Digital Technologies to Thrive in the Digital Era: Roles of Hospitality and Leisure Managers

7. Role of Hospitality and Leisure Managers in Digital Business Strategy, Digital Innovation, Digital Learning, Adaptability and Agility
8. Role of Hospitality and Leisure Managers in Digital Customer Engagement, Digital Stakeholder Engagement, and Digital Customer Experience
9. Role of Hospitality and Leisure Managers in Enterprise Architecture Management, Technology Sourcing, Data Management and Data Analytics
10. Role of Hospitality and Leisure Managers in Cyber Security, Information Privacy, and Digital Ethics
11. Role of Hospitality and Leisure Managers in Digital Leadership, Accelerated Change and Transformation, Digital Risk Management, and Digital Governance

Part IV: Keeping Up with Digital Technology Advancements

12. Keeping up with Digital Technology Advancements

Part V: Digital Technologies Deep Dive

13. Data, Data Management, Data Analytics and Data Science Technologies
14. Internet of Things (IoT) Technologies
15. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies
16. Video Analytics, Computer Vision, and Virtual Reality Technologies
17. Robotics, Drones, 3D and 4D Printing Technologies
18. Network and Connectivity Technologies

19. Blockchain and Other Distributed Ledger Technologies

Richard Busulwa researches and teaches in the Business School at Swinburne University of Technology, home to Australia’s first fully immersed Industry 4.0 facility. His digital business research explores different digital technology advancements, how they drive disruption, and their implications for particular industries, business functions, and professions. He is the author of Strategy Execution and Complexity: Thriving in the Era of Disruption (Routledge) and Start-Up Accelerators: A Field Guide (Wiley). Before entering academia, Richard worked as managing director, COO, CFO, divisional manager, and sales executive in the hospitality, IT, telecommunications, and healthcare industries. He is co-founder of Leapin Digital Keys, the world’s first NBIoT smart lock platform.

Nina Evans is Associate Professor of STEM at the University of South Australia. She also holds a professorial lead position in the STEM academic unit. Nina has had a long career in ICT and STEM education leadership that has included time as vice dean, associate head of teaching and learning, and industry liaison manager. Nina started her career as a chemical engineer and completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in computer science/IT, education, an MBA and a PhD. Her research and teaching interests are in digital innovation, ICT leadership, information/knowledge management and governance.

Aaron Oh is a professional hotelier, general manager, and hospitality management educator. He has more than 12 years’ experience in operations management and property development of independent and boutique hotels such as the five-star Mayfair Hotel, The Point Brisbane Hotel, and Adabco Boutique Hotel. Aaron teaches hospitality property development, hospitality information systems management, and strategic management at the International College of Hotel Management, the only affiliate school of the Swiss Hotel Association in the Asia Pacific region.

Moon Kang is a hospita