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Ms. Rogers

Margaret Rogers

Vice President, Pariveda Solutions

Margaret Rogers is a vice president at Pariveda Solutions, a consulting firm driven to create innovative,growth-oriented, and people-first solutions. With more than 20 years of experience, Ms. Rogers enjoys empowering organizations with impactful and sustainable transformation to realize their full potential.

Prior to joining Pariveda Solutions, Ms. Rogers worked as a senior director of engagement and digital strategy for multimillion-dollar clients within the D.C. area. Her projects had a wide range of technologies,which included content management solutions, content strategy, analytics strategy, digital asset management, intranet, and e-commerce. She also began seeding the digital strategy practice that included creating execution roadmaps for infrastructures, products, and digital marketing.

Ms. Rogers is passionate about creating strategies and plans based on primary and secondary research to make smart choices where outcomes can be measured. Her experience spans across industries, including nonprofit,retail, media and telecomm, automotive, gaming, and manufacturing, allowing her to repurpose applications for other industries.

Before working with digital strategy projects, Ms. Rogers was the founder of her own consulting services firm focused on content management systems. She had the opportunity to work with international enterprise implementations that spanned across multiple lines of B2B and B2C businesses. Within that experience, she created frameworks to help guide organizations through content creation, organization, and strategy. Prior to her own ventures, Ms. Rogers has also held positions at Accenture, Proxicom, and other digital agencies.

Please visit https://www.parivedasolutions.com/perspectives for more information.

Ms. Rogers can be contacted at +1 844-325-2729 or washingtondc@parivedasolutions.com

Coming up in October 2019...

Revenue Management: Focus On Profit

Revenue Management is still a relatively new profession within hotel operations and as such, it continues to evolve. One significant trend in this area is a shift away from using revenue as the foundation to generate key performance indicators (KPIs) and to instead place the emphasis on profit. Traditionally, revenue managers have relied on total revenue per available room (TrevPAR) and revenue per available room (RevPAR) as the basis of their KPIs. Now, some revenue managers are using gross operating profit per available room (GOPPAR) as their primary KPI. This puts profit at the center of revenue management strategy, and managers are increasingly searching for new ways to increase the profitability of their hotels. Return on Investment is the objective of any hotel investment, so it is only logical that profitability and ROI will be emphasized going forward. Another trend is an expanded focus on direct hotel bookings. Revenue managers know that one way to increase profitability is to steer guests away from online travel agencies (OTAs) and book directly with the hotel. This tactic also reinforces brand identity and loyalty, and encourages repeat business. In addition, it provides a valuable platform to market the hotel directly to the customer, and to upsell room upgrades or other services to them. Another trend for revenue managers involves automation in their software programs. Revenue management systems with automation are far more desirable than those without it. Automating data entry and logistics increases efficiency, allowing managers to spend more time on formulating strategy. As a bonus, an automated system helps with aggregating and interpreting data. The October issue of the Hotel Business Review will address these developments and document how some leading hotels are executing their revenue management strategies.
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