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. Consumers treat brands like relationships — they reward friends with their loyalty and lash out when wronged. What are you thinking?

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ROE ROI Letter Airlines 50

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The companies that develop the deepest connections will generate more value for their customers and employees (and shareholders). Sticking with Southwest Airlines, why do their flight attendants entertain their passengers? 4) Seek to inspire, not just motivate. 6) Give trust away. 7) Scale your values. Source: [link].

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How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

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.

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Heskett Kotter Books Review 49

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

If consumers start turning regularly to smart speakers for their travel needs, they could end up interacting less and less with traditional airline, hotel, and even online travel agency brands. Use loyalty programs as leverage. Worldwide, ownership exceeds 100 million units and is projected to reach 225 million by 2020.

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Travel Industry Hotels Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

In other words, what are Citibank, American Airlines, Amazon, UPS, and Volvo doing to create engaging apps that bind the user to the company, build brand equity, and provide high exit barriers for customers (and equally high entry barriers for competitors)? Leaders in this space include American Airlines and American Express.

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Stage-Gate Airlines Brand Loyalty 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

I decided to test his claim by interviewing current and former C-suite executives, including Bob Crandall, former CEO of American Airlines; David Norton, former CMO of Harrah’s casinos; Will Ethridge, CEO of Pearson Education; and Pat O’Keefe, former CEO of Watts Water Technologies. So we worked extra hard to protect our key sales people.

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CEO Norton Airlines Short-term 11

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.

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Airlines Disaggregation Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 8

Steve Farber

AUGUST 10, 2010

We need something specific from the other person–an airline ticket, or lunch, or help with a question. In Third Floor relationships, people develop an emotional comfort level that goes beyond facts and information. In Fifth Floor relationships, vulnerability, authenticity, trust, and loyalty are off the charts.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

If you''re not satisfied with these changes you can cancel your account by calling us," the statement said — hardly an attempt at building customer satisfaction or loyalty. Airlines are a good example. If the airlines had assumed that consumers were weak and insignificant, they were wrong. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Companies have to develop guidelines for how to act when a particular event occurs. For example, if a customer tweets about an upcoming trip but hasn’t yet purchased a flight, the airline can turn to its social CRM program to find out that this person is a priority member, and say, frequently tweets about craft beers. decline).

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CRM Company Airlines Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Southwest Airlines’ decades-long strategy of “short-haul, high-frequency, point-to-point, low-fare service” produced what was not only one of the best-performing airlines in the U.S. For example, deregulation killed off icons in the airline business such as Pan Am and TWA.

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Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Last month, when I tweeted to American Airlines about a delay, no one tweeted back to me and no one realized that the tweet was also from a long-standing AAdvantage Gold member. As a result, brands can now match shopper loyalty programs with Facebook users based off of their Facebook ID, phone number, or email address.

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Brand Advertising Airlines CRM 16

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Last month, when I tweeted to American Airlines about a delay, no one tweeted back to me and no one realized that the tweet was also from a long-standing AAdvantage Gold member. As a result, brands can now match shopper loyalty programs with Facebook users based off of their Facebook ID, phone number, or email address.

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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.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

And airlines are gearing up for a price war on trans-Atlantic routes as some low-cost carriers plan service between the U.S. How can companies get more credit from consumers for their pricing, so they can build traffic and earn loyalty? telecommunications carriers now compete fiercely on price as they try to win new customers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

We have found that when this process works well, marketing often takes on an expanded role by, for example, providing sales with data analytics and by supporting the development and testing of sales plays for a specific micromarket or customer peer group. “People nailing that are taking the lion’s share of the business these days.”.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

They're failing to take control and develop a plan. Four main factors go into developing and positioning an app strategy: Brand. For example, companies at the top of Interbrand's Green Brands rankings have developed app strategies that reinforce their green credentials with consumers who deeply care about sustainability.

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Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. household participates in 29 different loyalty programs, according to the 2015 Colloquy Loyalty Census. Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

They have to make choices across the business in terms of investment opportunities or talent development — where to place executives to develop skills as future leaders, for instance. This courtside seat also allows us to observe some of the best (and worst!) 2) Reset the rules of the game.

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Benchmarking Dunning CEO Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Storydoing companies create fierce loyalty and evangelism in their customers. That story is being used to drive tangible action throughout the company: product development, HR policies, compensation, etc. What I mean by this is that when people encounter a storydoing company they often want to tell all their friends about it.

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Storytelling Company Marketing Strategy Media 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 21, 2019

They will pay threefold back with respect, support, and loyalty. The leader develops people. Leadership Tip: Develop people and help them explore their potential. They must obtain a different type of license for different kinds of aircraft, from a sports pilot license to an airline transport pilot license.

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Leadership Diversity Learning-by-Doing Licensing 87

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Profit maximization (short-term): A shipping company increases freight rates by 50% to benefit from a capacity shortage in the market, even though doing so will strike customers as exploitative and damage loyalty. Price leadership: A no-frills airline constantly advertises the lowest fares on any route served.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Companies are now taking advantage of this new marketing reality, becoming more skilled at getting their customers to advocate for them, create peer influence in their markets, and make important contributions in areas like product development and services. Think Apple, or Southwest Airlines, or for a more recent example, Zipcar.

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Social Capital Review Software Marketing 9

Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Supporting team members in this way is a powerful demonstration of love and a powerful way to build loyalty with team members. You share the example of Herb Kelleher and Southwest Airlines as models of love in action and the success it brings. The leader could certainly refer that customer to a competitor who would take care of them.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Although none are perfect, they operate in a way that generates engagement and fulfillment for their employees, delight and loyalty for their customers, positive contributions to their communities and to the environment, and excellent returns for their owners and investors. He has never sold a single business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

For example, Whole Foods developed geo-fences around its stores, as well as its competitors’ stores, to target relevant audiences and achieved a post-click conversion rate that was three times higher than the national average. This can help increase short-term sales as well as build long-term brand loyalty.

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Short-term Brand Long-term Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. How you operate on the inside should be inextricably linked with how you want to be perceived on the outside.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2011

To maintain high worker morale, productivity, and loyalty in such a diverse and changing conditions, IBM has placed new emphasis on the "resources" component of HR in four directions. He exemplifies IBM's unconventional attitude toward developing the talents of its unconventional workforce.

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Learning Curve Globalization Airlines Training 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. Running the business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

You're a United Airlines Premier Platinum member with hundreds of thousands of unused miles, and you've decided you can't take the airline's post-merger disorganization and shoddy service any longer. Hirschman's 1970 classic Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States.

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