Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Why is the airline industry so terrible? Chasing the next-higher-margin consumer requires both new firms and incumbents to leverage their resources, processes, and priorities. Chasing the next-higher-margin consumer requires both new firms and incumbents to leverage their resources, processes, and priorities.

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Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 8

CO2

JUNE 17, 2013

The world is depleting its resources at about 1% per year, the world population has grown to 7.1 The airline industry has found, for instance, that under stressful conditions pilots who go into command-and-control mode have a higher failure rate than those who ask for feedback from their crew before making any decisions.

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Charisma Teamwork Class Airlines 129

Surviving Leadership

JUNE 29, 2017

Whether or not you personally like Southwest Airlines (and I love them, so there), you can’t argue with their success in a tough industry. And they attribute it to their “culture” – from how they operate, to how they hire, to how they make, spend, and save money. ” There are bigger issues at stake.

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Human Resources Diversity Airlines Learning-by-Doing 70

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 23, 2011

This way, you can make a proper evaluation of your organization’s progress that takes into account not only the accomplishments and issues you’re aware of, but also those aspects about your operations which you ordinarily don’t have the time to review and reflect upon.

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Review Goal Course Learning-by-Doing 191

HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Here’s something to ponder on: Employers invest time and resources hiring and training employees. The company is going to have to shift internal resources or pour in more funds to accommodate the absence of a trained employee. Special hours of service eligibility requirements apply to airline flight crew employees.

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Learning Curve Training Short-term Competitive Advantage 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Airlines are arguably more operationally complex, asset-intensive, and regulated than hospitals, yet the best performers are doing a better job by far than most hospitals at keeping costs low and make a decent profit while delivering what their customers expect. katyau/Getty Images. These examples are relevant to health care for two reasons.

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Airlines Health Care Transportation Operations 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

America’s largest airline and the most profitable – the airline that love built. Southwest Airlines, has been touted as a servant leadership company as well. Herb Kelleher who built Southwest Airlines on servant leadership, Kelleher used to say my most important leaders are my flight attendants. You read it yourself.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

America’s largest airline and the most profitable – the airline that love built. Southwest Airlines, has been touted as a servant leadership company as well. Herb Kelleher who built Southwest Airlines on servant leadership, Kelleher used to say my most important leaders are my flight attendants. You read it yourself.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Boundaries prevent unhealthy people from taking up too much of your time, energy, or resources – all precious commodities in the workplace. They want to operate where they are most comfortable. All airlines are the same, except for their people. How to Turn Disagreements into Great Decisions for Your Small Business.

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Competitive Advantage Bottom-up Airlines Project 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Eighteen years ago, five airline companies—Lufthansa, Air Canada, United Airlines, Thai Airways and Scandinavian Airlines—formed an alliance with a vision to offer better services to their customers. Even when dealing with any one airline, they could enjoy access to the resources of several airlines.

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Airlines Hotels Operations Open-book 8

Next Level Blog

JULY 14, 2010

In the interest of developing a comprehensive resource, feel free to add your own in the Comments. Doing so abdicates all control of the trip to the airlines. If that’s the case, here’s that list that will be so helpful to you and the rest of your family this summer vacation season. Under no circumstances will luggage be checked.

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Travel Blog Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 227

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

When different groups disagree over a limited resource, negotiation becomes necessary. Now, we'd like to explore how inventive negotiations could help resolve a still-ongoing dispute over a very limited resource: real estate in Southern California. Now, we're not talking about shutting down Camp Pendleton.

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Resources Airlines Real Estate Long-term 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

That's exactly what Portuguese airport operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal did in its quest to attract more major airlines and connecting routes. Their findings quickly confirmed that ANA's focus on its customers' customers would benefit the airlines, as well.

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B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms , especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think pulp and paper, steel, airlines) and which are often located away from the metropolitan areas where data scientists live. And the results are often wasted resources and disgruntled employees.

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Bottom-up Operations Training Efficiency 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Twenty thousand years ago most people lived in small, nomadic groups, and these groups offered individuals more protection, resources for securing food, and mating opportunities than they would have had on their own. This effect can be so strong as to cause followers to give their lives for the cause.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

When I was at Delta, we spent enormous resources in terms of time and money on planning. Airline operations are a huge optimization challenge. Maybe it’s not an exact apples-to-apples comparison, since you can’t break up an airline into multiple moving parts (at least not yet).

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Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Below are five strategies to free up the resources you need to compete on excellence and empathy: Underperform. One way Zappos funds its legendary service is by relying on a very lean operation. Use airline check-in kiosks for inspiration. So how else could you fund it? What would your customers be willing to give up?

Airlines 14

Airlines Call Center Retail Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Let’s look at an example that most of us directly interact with for hundreds, if not thousands, of hours annually: the airline industry. Pilots are a critical pool of talent for an airline; there must be a sufficient supply with appropriate skills to operate the airline. the legally required element).

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Airlines Disaggregation Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Woolworth Company – companies that were once the best in their field but failed to untangle themselves from deeply embedded routines, and fatally flawed resource allocation processes. Companies that survive build structures and systems that allow them to waste resources. Take Southwest Airlines as an example.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas. GE is an icon of management best practices.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

My sole purpose for publishing this piece is to share a valuable resource with you. –– Frank Sonnenberg. Success with change does require skill with “organizational” things like adjustment of priorities and redeployment of resources. Being Change-friendly operates from a platform of respect and caring, not intimidation and contention.

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Hotels Stress Resistance Restructuring 125

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

And Dell strictly limits the number of components in its computers as a way of controlling its customized assembly operations. Even automobile companies and airlines seem to have learned this lesson. The narrowing of choices by these companies has not only made it easier for their customers but has also increased revenues and margins.

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Productivity Products Supply Chain Airlines 14

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. Hointer’s salespeople are as much information resources as people who sell. That distinction’s not subtle.

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Competitive Advantage Airlines Retail Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

At the same time several other countries such as China and Argentina are beginning to develop their shale oil and gas resources by adopting the technology and business model as well as building an investment and supply chain ecosystem that supports this development. These “unconventional oil and gas producers” in the U.S.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

His favorite, Southwest Airlines, certainly doesn’t lack for press about its positive organizational culture and cheerful customer-facing employees, but the example makes a more nuanced point about the contribution of people in a capital-intensive business. Therefore, they cease to provide a competitive advantage.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Storytelling Airlines Human Resources 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

About one quarter of these CCOs formerly held operations positions. They have power and influence resources. Even if their teams are small, their voice on the executive management team means they have influence over how the company prioritizes and spends resources. Consider one example.

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B2C B2B Forrester Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

It must be lived by top management as exemplified in their behavior and in the design of their management and human resource policies and practices. These practices have allowed Southwest Airlines to develop high employee commitment, to be admired for their customer service, and to outperform the industry. Consider what happened to HP.

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Company Teamwork Commitment Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

Singapore Airlines and Nordstrom)? In other words, will we sell it for more or make it for less — and allocate sales resources accordingly? Clarity about that will help your salespeople (and everyone else) focus more efficiently, qualify customers more effectively, and allow your firm to allocate resources more profitably.

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Market Segmentation Mass Marketing Price Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Trying to cover it all would be operationally overwhelming and a waste of resources. While breadth is a virtue for a public policy audience, managers need ways to prioritize and focus resources. The 20 companies we studied did not attempt to cover the spectrum of the SDGs; they made choices and allocated their resources.

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Development Company Innovation Goal 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

And that’s not just social media accounts; it’s bank accounts, retailer gift card accounts with cash and credit cards attached, airline loyalty accounts with years of accumulated frequent flyer points, and other accounts with real value. This statistic is alarming, but in fact it significantly understates the scope of the threat.

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ROI Long-term Banking System 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Typically they end up as an app or a custom feature in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. One airline paired its automation efforts with its customer service training so that agents could spend more time looking fliers in the eye and talking to them, and less time staring at a screen and typing.

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Strategy Content Enterprise Architecture Agility 8

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. Our team at RelayHealth would tell you that they have benefited from the financial and customer resources that McKesson brings to the table.

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Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The airline industry has experienced great volatility from deregulation, takeovers through mergers and acquisitions, and, as always, unpredictable forces of nature. ” Krolick also noted that a meaningful number of United Airlines employees are also pilots—these are super-superconsumers. Unlocking Energy. Adapted from.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

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 there sufficient resources devoted to solving issues that occur with scale-up? Operators in the business units love hitting goals and finding new efficiencies.

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