Hilton Case
Hilton Case
Hilton Case
Hilton was perhaps the most internationally recognizable name in the lodging
industry. The milestone of Hilton Hotels :
1919
: The firm began its operations with the Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas
under the guiding leadership of Conrad Hilton.
1946
: The company went public under the name Hiton Hotels Corporation
1964
2000
2005
2006
: Hilton announce the opening of the 1000 hotel in North America since
the acquisition of Promus
MAIN ISSUE
1. How Hilton could compete in the highly competitive global lodging business
and could improve their services delivery and consistency accros the family of
Hilton brand all over the world?
DISSCUSSION
IT infrastructure is a competitive advantage for Hilton. Hilton hotels
Corporation made a comprehensive, integrated infrastructure known as OnQ. OnQ
embodied both the one stop shopping nature of an integrated solution and a readiness
to serve costomers on cue. It was an ambititious custom built enterprise system
designed to support the property-level operations of each hotel in the Hilton family,
regardless of size and segment.
OnQ was a critical component of Hiltons aggressive expansion strategy,
enabling the firm to open more hotels, at a quicker pace,and with more consistency of
delivery than otherwise possible. Hilton felt that oursourcing was not a viable option
because they think the most outstanding services could be reach if all technology
components need to work flawlessly together.
Upon becoming a diversified brand management company, Hilton focused on
enchancing the value of its portfolio and ensuring consistency of delivery of each
brands promise. For Hilton, Customer Really Matter (CRM) is a way to use
technology to give power for the company to solidify relationships with our best
customers. CRM made all of the information can integrated and easily available.
Customer analytics was the less visible component of the CRM strategy, but a critical
one, as it ensured that Hilton could measure results and quickly act when needed.
The satisfaction and loyalty tracking (SALT) survey was the key component of
the CRM initiative and it was an important component of Hiltons measurement
system. Management carefully monitored the ratings a property received on overall
experience, ability to recommend, and willingness to return.
Competitve Advantage of Hilton is they have a lot of pieces that work well
together. Since they are the only company that has the same technology platform and
distribution footprint throughout all the brands, they can leverage their strengths
consistently across the entire systems. They believes that unless they do something
consistently across a lot of our hotels and there is sufficient repetition and
reinforcement, it does not matter that you have superstar hotels, thats the brand
promise.
Hilton had not been the first to make its foray into deep personalization of
guest experiences. The Ritz Carlton had pioneered in the luxury egment and
Wyndham International had introduced to the upper upscale segment. But Hilton had
been the first major multibrand operator to roll out a strong, integrated customer
relationship management effort that was tightly integrated with its frequent guest
program and was delivered chain wide.
SOLLUTION
Hilton want to satisfy the customers with the consistency service all over the
world. They used CRM effectively, maximize the potential of OnQ, and execute it
consistently and flawlessly across the network. The company also can use the social
customer relationship management that used the sosial media as a platform for the
future. They can inform the customer anything and interact directly with the customer
all over the worlds.