Want: Airbnb Experiences, for companies. Factory tours of everything from Airbus to McDonalds.
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Cross-discipline knowledge exchange! We provide the Python, they provide the bison! Just imagine the burger assembly lines powered by itertools.izip()! MmmmMmm...
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I’m a fan of “exec exchange” for this reason. (https://www.inc.com/leigh-buchanan/ceo-swap.html … https://www.fastcompany.com/3066911/why-this-ceo-trades-jobs-with-other-execs …)
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Brand loyalty. I still prefer the products of companies I’ve toured years later.
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For very large ticket items I can see that being worth it to the company. For less pricy items, less so.
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"Reinvesting rent in social capital" is a time-honored tradition in many places, and factory tours are approximately the least odious ways of doing this, since they focus on the work rather than the curated epiphenomena of the work like e.g. company museums do.
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Japanese factory tours (and analogous tours of working spaces, which literally include McDonalds here: http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/family/adventure/ …) are enormously popular internally and externally.
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When I visit countries now, this is primarily what I do--visit companies. It's fantastic--and would/will continue to have majority of my travel be this
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maybe i'm pointing out the obvious, but revenue? tours don't have to be free...
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Exactly. AWS was established to get revenue when servers were not being used off-peak. Same applies here.
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