Integrating the Virtual Club Experience Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet,” observed Danny Hillis who, as it turns out, is actually a big fan of technology. He’s a successful entrepreneur who pioneered the concept of parallel computers and part-time MIT professor whose wry definition
Relevance and Creativity Steered River Oaks Country Club through 2020 Words like reimagined, modified, adapted and reinvented pepper a recent lively conversation with COO and General Manager Joe Bendy, CCM, CCE, and Club Manager Casey Newman, CCM, of Houston’s River Oaks Country Club (ROCC) about
Late Thursday afternoon Pete finished up his daily routine and peeled off to visit his club. He followed a light snack with a squash lesson—charging both to his account—before he headed home. Pete is a relatively new dues-paying member at the Country Club of Virginia
The word “connectivity” is synonymous with the word “club.” Connectivity takes a club beyond being a commercial provider of services, programs and facilities. In today’s world where instant gratification is often the goal, the concept of connectivity among members can easily get lost. A club
Michael McCarthy, ECM, CEO and general manager of Addison Reserve Country Club (ARCC) in Delray Beach, Fla., says that when he arrived at the club in 2007 he quickly recognized that the membership at the club was forward-thinking. That same year, the club opened a
Does your club know where it wants to go? If not, then the embrace of technology will likely offer little substantive improvement. It will really offer little more than the short-lived thrill that comes from the embrace of new gadgetry. It’s possible to lose sight
The Country Club of Virginia: Membership has its privileges Late Thursday afternoon Pete finished up his daily routine and peeled off to visit his club. He followed a light snack with a squash lesson—charging both to his account—before he headed home. Pete is a relatively
Desert Mountain Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., recently unveiled an innovative technology that provides hikers critical information to selecting and enjoying the club’s 20-mile private trail system—via QR code. Members and their guests take more than 12,000 hikes each year on Desert Mountain’s trails, consisting of
Michael McCarthy, CEO and general manager of Addison Reserve Country Club (ARCC) in Delray Beach, Fla., says that when he arrived at the club in 2007 he quickly recognized that the membership at the club was forward-thinking. That same year, the club opened a state-of-the-art