The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

With conferences also heading online, the business travel market has ground to a halt as people have learned to communicate without jumping on a plane to do so. This is especially likely if, as expected, costs rise as the airline industry struggles to regain some semblance of financial stability.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Squeezing another penny out of costs, getting product to market a few weeks earlier, responding to customers’ inquiries a little bit faster, ratcheting quality up one more notch, capturing another point of market share–those are the obsessions of managers today. ” Welcome to the era of growth through innovation.

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Six Sigma TQM Airlines Wilde 150

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2013

The nightly news shows the weather report, ball scores, stock market numbers and a crawling headline simultaneously on the TV screen. The core of the innovative service strategy must include rethinking the authority of the front line—the venue for in-the-moment inventiveness. Television has become both high definition and multi-media.

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Innovation Strategy Customer Loyalty Loyalty 58

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

This month we are featuring Leading Voice Chip Bell , author, renowned keynote speaker on innovative customer service, and consultant/speaker to such organizations as Microsoft, Nationwide, Marriott, Lockheed-Martin, Cadillac, Ritz-Carlton, Caterpillar, Verizon, USAA, Harley-Davidson, and Victoria’s Secret. trustworthiness.

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Levitt Godin Customer Loyalty Airlines 150

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2020

” The next step for the project is to both seek investment to further develop the technology and secure partners from across the hospitality, tourism, and technology industry to bring the technology to market. .” The post Is Virtual Tourism A Viable Future For The Travel Industry? first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Tourism Travel Industry Video 126

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 16, 2012

Guest post by Rick Lash, from the Hay Group: The matrix has often been described as a new type of organizational structure that is flatter, more interconnected, more global and more innovative. Innovation and the Ghost Organization. Dinosaurs in an Asteroid Storm. They make bold connections outside their own area of expertise.

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Environment Self-aware Leadership Emotional Intelligence 250

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In Guy’s presentation, he spoke about the 11 steps organizations need to take to become more innovative, with the first step being that we ensure that whatever initiatives we take must create a sense of meaning and value. That this is something that only we could do.

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Organization Conference Audience Globalization 274

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2015

When it came time to drive cows to market, the hot tattoo was a convenient way to identify a particular cow. The CEO of eBay said in an interview, “Most good innovation comes from customers. Brand lovers contribute ideas that help the brand innovate and grow. And, it is the dream of every brand manager.

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Brand Airlines Wilde Tools 150

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

Poor Managers Enervate, Effective Leaders Energize Management at an airline with deteriorating customer satisfaction issued a directive urging staff to smile and be nicer to passengers. Yet despite our very tight job market, highly effective “magnet companies” attract and hang on to good people.

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Energy Crisis Leadership Absenteeism 52

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 30, 2021

The highly competitive nature of the market means that wages generally have to be kept incredibly low for farms to be profitable. The authors also highlight how the growth in low-cost airlines has made it easier for workers to find work in other countries. This has led to a situation whereby there are around 5.5 A different picture.

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Supply Chain Airlines Globalization Price 120

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Why is the airline industry so terrible? Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. Which brings us back to the airline industry. Finally, they would take over the international air travel market.

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Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 10

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

3) Don’t let “freedom from” obstruct “freedom to.” Social media can help liberate employees from traditional hierarchies and structures that stifle collaboration and innovation but only if new frameworks replace what previously existed. Sticking with Southwest Airlines, why do their flight attendants entertain their passengers?

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How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Warren Buffett got burned with an airline investment in the 1990s. airlines, taking a 4.16% stake in American Airlines, smaller stakes in United and Delta, and an undisclosed stake in Southwest Airlines. ” Some of that profit is the result of innovative pricing models. billion in the four largest U.S.

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Airlines Price Hedge Industry 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2014

However, innovations in the neurosciences to developments in social media have revealed that profitability should no longer be relegated to sales figures and profit margins alone. Control, one of the six core emotional needs I discuss in Empathetic Marketing , fuels our motivations in every aspect of our lives.

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ROE ROI Letter Airlines 50

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

One of the best sources of understanding is experience, such as in-market know-how, familiarity with competitors and customers, or expertise in leading during turbulent times. None of us want to see pipelines, oil rigs, or airlines compromising safety for speed. Information doesn’t necessarily mean understanding.

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Power Competitive Advantage Airlines Information 100

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Systems and Structures The first three principles of strategic leadership involve nontraditional but highly effective approaches to decision making, transparency, and innovation. By setting up ways for people to bring their innovative thinking to the surface, you can help them learn to make the most of their own creativity.

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Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

But since deregulation in 1978, airlines in the U.S. airlines filed for bankruptcy. Airlines suddenly leveled off. In the past few years, profits have become positive across the industry, and market caps are soaring from prior lows. airlines earned an estimated $12.4 So what happened? In 2012, the major U.S.

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Airlines Industry Transportation Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

In the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the most impressive fact few reporters choose to explore in any depth is that the Boeing 777’s engine was capable of communicating long after the pilots went silent. Because the airline had the option, but declined , to pay about $10 per flight for real-time access to it.

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Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Similarly, business travel not only provides a healthy proportion of passenger numbers, but a large proportion of airline profits, not to mention the numerous ancillary businesses, from hotels to conference providers, that rely on professionals getting out and about. Shifting sands. This pandemic is no different.

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Reis Transportation Real Estate Tourism 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. Are people moving from the innovation lab or pilot test team to help with the roll-out? So how to improve?

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Project Innovation Press Release Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Sales and marketing were once disciplines ruled by emotions. What if we applied the same thinking to innovation? What if we applied the same thinking to innovation? After all, innovation, like marketing and sales, is a pipeline. Once you put innovation into a system like this, you can track everything.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The digital marketer who effectively runs Qantas Airlines'' highly regarded — and very successful — loyalty program has an unusual iPad problem. Flight attendants on Australia''s flagship carrier can now get up-to-the-minute data on the airline''s most elite and valued frequent flyers displayed on their onboard tablets.

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Marketing Airlines Workshop Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share. So I’ll pose a question now: What questions should corporate innovators use to increase their odds of success? Identifying the Threat of Disruption.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We recently attended the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, where we moderated several panels and workshops on the topic of innovation. The experience gave us some insights into a unique approach to innovation called jugaad , which entrepreneurs and enterprises are practicing in complex emerging markets like India.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2012

What are you doing to innovate it? They don’t have to talk about their competition – Apple is the innovator. OUCH QUESTION: Is your brand, product, or service market superior, and you haven’t elevated yourself to that position? Blackberry, American Airlines, Barnes & Noble, Microsoft, and Tiger Woods to name a few.

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Brand Reputation Customer Loyalty Industry 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. Re-visit big, inflexible projects — The 80/20 rule often applies to corporate innovation portfolios; a few projects consume the lion's share of cash.

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Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Consider these 11 ideas from the Radical Times Webcast series by SAS Marketing Director Jonathan Hornby: 1. Innovate quickly.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 22, 2011

I can’t remember the contents of the article, but I remember the headline of “Obliterate, don’t innovate&#. Tagged as: Boeing , future flight , NASA { 4 comments… read them below or add one } Thabo Hermanus January 23, 2011 at 7:59 am Kevin, this really pushes the boundaries and the pictures are awesome.

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Creativity Workshop Blog Video 183

Lead on Purpose

MAY 26, 2009

I then called Delta Airlines to cancel our flights. Filed under: Leadership , Trust , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | social media , Communication , customer service , honesty , Marriott , Delta , Hilton , Universal Studios « Book Review: Halftime The power of persistence » Like Be the first to like this post.

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Examples Hotels Productivity Products 113

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Nowhere else in the executive suite of a typical corporation are two functions as closely intertwined as sales and marketing. Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Consider Southwest Airlines, which shook up the airline industry with its low-cost, high-customer service approach to air travel. Historically, corporate Goliaths have taken one of two approaches to this kind of upstart competition—try to muscle them out of the market or bring them into the fold through acquisition.

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Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

The airline industry is a cautionary tale of what happens when companies emulate new business models without bringing over the associated mental models. For over 40 years, Southwest Airlines has been a disruptive force in the airline industry, creating an entirely new category and a record 43 consecutive years of profitability.

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Airlines Business Model Strategy Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

While Uber deserves kudos for being innovative, let’s be truthful: Its success has come from creatively exploiting a regulatory loophole. Consider the regulation-to-deregulation evolution in the long distance telephone market. This exact scenario is occurring in the taxi market. Pricing Marketing Strategy'

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Industry Innovation Price Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

But the gravest concern we've heard, that the ruling creates a legal climate that will stifle innovation, is unfounded. It's a model that works when you're competing to provide a safer car, a faster computer, or a cheaper airline ticket, but it's of little use when the goal is a better user experience.

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Innovation Supply Chain Short-term Long-term 15

Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

Some surface unpredictably (dress for an out-of-town business meeting after the airline lost my suitcase); some regularly (pack a healthful lunch for my daughter to take to school). Often innovative solutions can be found if you expand the scope of what you see as the system. Dr. Deming talked about these same ideas.

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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

” In this form of marketing, fans who share a common interest are encouraged to engage with little to no prompting by the brand. Done well, we believe that tribe marketing empowers a brand to behave like an effortless host at a cocktail party. ”) will most likely share with others who share that same interest or passion.

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