HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Strategic planning of employee onboarding and development ensures consistency. Although the FMLA is one part of fixing the workplace, employers must remain agile to its challenges to continue to grow. Special hours of service eligibility requirements apply to airline flight crew employees. Staff More Strategically.

Learning Curve 40

Learning Curve Training Short-term Competitive Advantage 40

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2011

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. Southwest Airlines, Wal-Mart, IBM, ING, 3M, and Proctor and Gamble are some of the adaptive cultures providing insights to the enduring success growing from their highly effective cultures. Expectations (e.g.

Heskett 49

Heskett Kotter Books Review 49

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Too often, old, legacy processes prevent companies from having that agility. Although the use of social media in BPM may still be in its infancy, its potential for increasing the agility of business processes — allowing for change in the early stages of product development, for example — is immense.

BPM 8

BPM Media Process Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

No longer will all developers be assigned to project work. These products are typically not for sale, but they do go through a defined development process and provide clear business benefits. Now, companies invest in ways that support a smaller, more agile approach so they can adjust as they find out what works.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Enterprise Architecture Agility 8

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

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. As with American Airlines, each competitive advantage with IT is temporary. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Herb Kelleher fosters a culture of employee empowerment and cost containment at Southwest, enabling the airline to become one of the world’s most admired and profitable carriers. Southwest Airlines is the classic example. These characteristics give employees a sense of meaning just from being part of the company.

Airlines 9

Airlines Automotive Competitive Advantage Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Quick, name a product that was developed without using software. It’s used to design and develop just about any product you can think of, from consumer goods to industrial equipment – or any service or experience ranging from retail customer service interactions to luxury hotel stays. It’s difficult, if not impossible.

Software 8

Software Industry Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

This highly resource-constrained and chaotic environment inspires jugaad innovators — i.e., the Indian entrepreneurs and corporations who practice jugaad to develop market-relevant products and services that are inherently affordable and sustainable. Jugaad innovators innovate cheaper: Jugaad innovators are very frugal.

Innovation 19

Innovation Incubator Banking Hypercompetition 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

And coaching or mentoring approaches have great merits for personal development, but are hard to scale. People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline. Live pilots are highly realistic but costly, time consuming and risky.

Seminar 8

Seminar Learning Curve Strategy Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, when Hess Corporation launched its 2020 Change Initiative, CEO John Hess challenged his entire leadership team to come up with solutions that would make the company more agile, cost conscience, and faster at decision making. Emphasize continuous learning.

Succession 8

Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Instead of making the leap to an entirely new form of organization — a radical change not without its pitfalls — perhaps we should think more seriously about the problem of agility itself. Southwest’s mission of being the low-cost airline drives everything it does, from the planes it buys to the routes it competes on.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Agility Diversity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

If it would have an immediate business impact, such as the impact that an airline’s loss of its reservation systems would have, then it is likely to be a key operational investment. Development approaches. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

On the latter, we will be carefully observing how developments such as Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies — and, more broadly, the entrance of hedge funds and large institutional investors — will affect the landscape of startup financing. Still, being astute and agile does not guarantee immunity to disruption.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

His book CULTURE RENOVATION: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company contains Kevin’s extensive experience and research into turning cultures into agile, innovative, and resilient powerhouses. The very first step of our 18 step blueprint is “Develop and Deploy a Comprehensive Listening Strategy.” ” -Herb Kelleher.

Open-book 100

Open-book Learning-by-Doing Definition Company 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Scale drove consolidation and globalization of industries throughout the mid-twentieth century and it still does today, such as in steel, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. Scale and efficiency are mostly about competing by lowering costs.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

buying an airline ticket or configuring a printer). In the organizational-identity condition , groups started with the assumption that newcomers would perform best when they developed pride in their organizational affiliation and accepted the organization’s norms and values.

Power 8

Power Outsourcing Self-aware Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas. I often tell clients not to shirk the tough problems — cut the fat, not the essence.

Ries 16

Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Less than one in 10 firms said they “innovate in an agile way.” In the 1950s, Boeing was an insignificant player in commercial airliners. Leaders must remove all doubt that everyone needs to develop the skills and behaviours that will achieve something novel and special. ” A 2014 survey by Deloitte of top U.S.

Management 8

Management Drucker Survey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Sharon Osen, SVP of global marketing at Swiss luxury beauty brand La Prairie starts with the customer, developing customer archetypes and personas that guide the design of multichannel experience that deliver on real customer needs. Digital CMOs are agile marketers who embrace the mantra “test and fail to learn and scale.”

Storytelling 11

Storytelling Brand Audience Marketing 11