Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Speed bumps stem from a classic tension between entrepreneurs who found companies or change them and established organizations, whether industry incumbents or government entities. In the case of the FAA and mobile technology, the slow-moving agency is trying its best to be nimbler. On the roads, new technology is growing in importance.

Transportation 8

Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2012

As a business strategist, facilitator, and speaker, Andrea has led more than 250 business innovation initiatives for global corporations, entrepreneurs, and organizations including Royal Dutch Shell (Asia-Pacific), Audi, Allstate, [.].

Entrepreneur 75

Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation Project 75

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When testing ideas are part of the creative process for product, service, or business development, this triangle must be a business priority: To test product, watch prospects interact with it—whether they use a tool, read a book, choose a necklace, or scan an airline ticket. Design stems from USE. Ideas come from everywhere!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

Suppose you were alive in 1884 and were approached by an aspiring entrepreneur who had developed the most efficient and durable horse carriage ever created. entrepreneurs. While inventors are more idea-oriented and entrepreneurs are more action-oriented, they both share an approach to problem solving that is non-linear.

Heron 15

Heron Shaw Entrepreneur Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

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. And it's not exactly like bicycles were a new technology.

Innovation 15

Innovation Retail Airlines Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In 1992, to free-up warehouse space, the UK team promised free airline tickets to customers who purchased more than £100 worth of its products. A nascent technology business might require an adaptive approach and a stable commodity business might require a classical, planning-based approach. A little later, the U.S.

Execution 9

Execution Strategy Gantt Chart Film 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

At an airline, one group handles reservations, another is in charge of the website, another handles your miles, and yet another is responsible for customer complaints. Simply “having” developers that know Jenkins doesn’t instill any institutional knowledge about that technology.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Software Construction Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

As a member of a start-up advisory program, I regularly hear pitches from aspiring technology entrepreneurs. Southwest Airlines exists in a class of its own in large part due to its fun personality. My job is to sort out the companies with potential from those that need to go back to the drawing board. Hyundai is an -er brand.

Brand 8

Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 8

Cooperperson

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

My case led to changing, among other things, job titles, like draftsman to graphic artist, airline stewardess to flight attendant, and manpower to human resources. Addiction to alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, technology, sex, TV binging, depression and suicide ideation rates are off the charts.

Chief Executive Officer 78

Chief Executive Officer Self-aware Education Airlines 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Organic growth depends on discovering breakthrough ideas, leveraging technology, and getting closer to customers. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Indeed, a 2012 Royal Society report emphasized that these “enhancements,” along with other technologies for self-enhancement, are likely to have far-reaching implications for the business world. ” Back in 2008 the narcolepsy medication Modafinil was labeled the “entrepreneur’s drug of choice” by TechCrunch.

Ethics 13

Ethics Stress Policies Morale 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Organizations such as Y Combinator and TechStars have become magnets for some of the most talented US entrepreneurs by providing expert guidance with limited funds. In classic cases of industry disruption, such as in steel or airlines , incumbent firms have tens of thousands of employees.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

These entrepreneurs provide a valuable service and are simply following the capitalist mantra of "buy low, sell high.". Ticketmaster has ticketless technology which requires purchasers to produce government issued identification to gain entry, limiting resale opportunities. But it's time to give the scalpers a break.

Price 11

Price Sports PR Airlines 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

In fact it was a truly bipartisan coalition that drove the de-regulation of the trucking and airline industries in the 1970s. Sharing economy entrepreneur, Shelby Clark, Founder of car-sharing service RelayRides, suggested the idea of metrics-based regulations. Government Technology'

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Southwest’s mission of being the low-cost airline drives everything it does, from the planes it buys to the routes it competes on. One of the greatest challenges of managing an enterprise today is that technology cycles often outpace planning cycles , so firms find themselves constantly having to adjust. Who would they talk to?

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Agility Diversity Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

Some very well-known companies such as Whole Foods (founder John Mackey dedicates a whole chapter to love in his book Conscious Capitalism ) and Southwest Airlines (their NYSE ticker code is LUV) make explicit reference to love. The good news is that love isn’t as absent from our organizations as one might think.

Organization 8

Organization Power Reference Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline. Exogenous shocks (new technologies, economic-political events) were incorporated as well to train players to stay agile and flexible.

Seminar 8

Seminar Learning Curve Strategy Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Bruno Esposito, an industry veteran and entrepreneur, lamented to me, “It took some companies decades to overcome their focus on selling more aircraft engines, even though what airlines wanted was safe, efficient operations and predictability of costs. Power by the hour aligns customers and suppliers.

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

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. ’ Sometimes you need to be reminded of that.”

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology? In 2015, consumers will begin to see SVPA technology baked into their mobile phones. Where/how are people stuck?

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

As Ries writes, some entrepreneurs hear "minimum viable" product as "smallest imaginable" product. Sometimes, entrepreneurs miss a key opportunity to establish market differentiation by interpreting the "minimum" component of an MVP to mean "nothing challenging." One might think of this approach as testing multiple MVPs in parallel.

Ries 15

Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

Southwest Airlines never said, "We want to be the country's most innovative airline." They perfected a new way to be an airline by virtue of what they wanted to achieve as an airline. The Wright brothers weren't trying to build an airline, they were saying, 'Holy s**t, do you think we could fly?'

Innovation 15

Innovation Airlines Six Sigma Lean Production 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

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. In my opinion, Congress should look at re-regulating certain industries (oil & gas, utilities, airlines, banking, trucking, broadcasting). Congressional Hearings.

Strategic Planning 58

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In an earlier age, “general purpose technologies” such as electricity and communications networks were recognized by economists as their own category because they provided vital inputs for all kinds of businesses, revolutionized the way business was conducted in general, and literally redefined what it meant to live in modern society.

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8