The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The pandemic has been the making of many technologies, and new research from Augusta University explores whether it might do likewise for virtual travel. The team believes that the technology would help to mitigate some of the devastation caused to the travel industry by the pandemic, while also opening up new possibilities.

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Tourism Travel Industry Video 126

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 17, 2012

He was – if you refer to technology and innovation. In Jobs case, I’d suggest this was creativity, innovation and technology. This is seen in Southwest Airlines frequent recognition as the leader of their industry and the comparably infrequent features of Herb Kelleher.

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Servant Leader Leadership Reference Bottom-up 273

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 9, 2021

For instance, the data suggest that when commercial enterprises, such as banks and airlines, are privatized, they are able to produce significant efficiency improvements as a result. What’s more, it’s crucial that the right things are privatized and that they do so under the right regulatory regime.

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Policies Airlines Efficiency Incentives 129

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2022

Lessons in enterprise AR’s potential from China Southern Airlines.

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Airlines Operations Supply Chain Productivity 17

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the new book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. It is the entire world.

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Skills Company Shaw Crisis 65

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

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. It is the entire world.

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Skills Company Shaw Crisis 50

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 31, 2012

Andrea Kates (akates@BusinessGenome.com) is the founder of the Business Genome® project and author of the visionary bestselling business innovation book, Find Your Next (McGraw-Hill, November 2011).

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Airlines Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 70

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 21, 2020

Thankfully, for all of the challenges we’ve had with connectivity and so on, the technology infrastructure has largely supported the transition, and the rollout of 5G and continued development in areas such as augmented reality and telerobotics promise to make more of the work we do possible remotely. The future of work.

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Long-term Travel Airlines Technology 94

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Thanks to technology, we have access to an endless source of data at our fingertips, at any place and at any time we choose. Technology gives us more and more data, but analyzing and understanding ‘more and more’ is arduous and time consuming. Now, I don’t want anyone to think that I don’t value information technology.

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Power Competitive Advantage Airlines Information 100

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Winning in this environment requires more than new technology ; here are ten ways to become truly social in a world that is not just connected, but interconnected and interdependent: 1) Do away with one-way conversations. Sticking with Southwest Airlines, why do their flight attendants entertain their passengers? 6) Give trust away.

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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

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

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Earlier this year I wrote about the 5th edition of the Technology at Work report from Oxford University and Citi, which found that over half of the U.S. Companies like Google have already said that their employees will be working from home into the summer of 2021, with other technology companies following suit.

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Reis Transportation Real Estate Tourism 79

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

But since deregulation in 1978, airlines in the U.S. airlines filed for bankruptcy. Airlines suddenly leveled off. The turnaround can’t be attributed to a bold, Da Vinci-esque initiative such as new carbon fiber aircraft, the pioneering of new markets or even low-cost innovation. airlines earned an estimated $12.4

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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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But somewhere along the way, we recognized that they were based on definable pipelines and applied technology to manage those pipelines. 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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Innovation Airlines Chief Technology Officer Participative 8

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

If I’m going to fly, I have to trust the airline to have sane, sober, skilled, alert pilots. As we let ourselves be vulnerable, we also leave ourselves more open to new ideas, new ways of thinking which leads to empathy and innovation. CS : Yes, I didn’t need to trust them personally, just professionally.

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Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

One big reason why is that hospitals purchase technologies without requiring that they communicate with each other. Yet these technologies rarely share data, let alone leverage it to support better clinical care. But in health care, few things work as expected. How did we get here? But we are far from where we should be.

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Technology Health Care Wireless System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Southwest Airlines receives a job application every two seconds. Given the talent shortage facing our industry, you’d think we’d be tempted to snap up many of those candidates, particularly ones with backgrounds in engineering and technology.

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Airlines Review Engineering Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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?

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Project Innovation Press Release Survey 11

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

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. The company has invested in this brand's innovation in many ways.

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Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

The point is, if you can think, you can innovate. You can be the one who figures out that putting the TV in everyone's airplane seatback could make for a great new airline. Here are a few examples where a simple twist on an existing paradigm changed everything — often in complicated technological businesses. Better Planet.

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Innovation Retail Airlines Technology 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Remove them and you will find more time to focus on innovation. Innovate quickly. Innovate constantly. Get strategic.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

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? It is the innovator’s job. What problem is the customer struggling to solve?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Apple's recent legal victory over Samsung has prompted an outpouring of worried speculation about the future of technology and design that's almost unprecedented. But the gravest concern we've heard, that the ruling creates a legal climate that will stifle innovation, is unfounded. Some of the concerns being raised are valid.

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Innovation Supply Chain Short-term Long-term 15

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. A year later, we did acquire them — but rather than swallow RelayHealth whole, we wanted to preserve its innovative DNA and disseminate it across our company.

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Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Bringing new technology and tools into your organization can increase productivity, boost sales, and help you make better, faster decisions. However, 63% said the pace of technological change in their workplaces is too slow, primarily due to a “lack of urgency” and poor communication about the strategic benefits of new tools.

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Technology CRM Training System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Best known as the technology behind bitcoin, blockchain enables a ledger of transactions to be shared across a network of participants. Related Video.

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Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 13

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

JUNE 12, 2015

The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. For me, the point of his story was simple but profound: empathy is the engine of innovation. These are exactly the sorts of soul-destroying experiences that energize innovators.

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Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2012

Andrea Kates (akates@BusinessGenome.com) is the founder of the Business Genome® project and author of the visionary bestselling business innovation book, Find Your Next (McGraw-Hill, November 2011).

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Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation Project 75

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

At a reception for JetBlue’s most frequent Mosaic flyers, I had the opportunity to listen to the airline’s top management discuss its ambitions to improve operations and enhance customer experience. As both a technology and retailer innovator — not unlike Amazon! Customers Information & technology Innovation'

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Competitive Advantage Airlines Retail Supply Chain 8

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

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. These "channel" systems helped steer business to American Airlines.

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