Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2013

The core of the innovative service strategy must include rethinking the authority of the front line—the venue for in-the-moment inventiveness. “We have a strategic plan,” said Southwest Airlines founder and retired CEO, Herb Kelleher. You just finished reading The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service !

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 6, 2017

They’re on the ground, in the midst of the action, and are best at coming up with their own strategies for how to accomplish those goals.” Former Alaska Airlines CEO John Kelly was a master at knowing when to take charge through one of his conative capabilities – innovating solutions.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In Guy’s presentation, he spoke about the 11 steps organizations need to take to become more innovative, with the first step being that we ensure that whatever initiatives we take must create a sense of meaning and value. Some other posts you may enjoy: How Do You Show Up As A Leader In Your Organization?

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Think of the restaurant industry or the airline industry. Now we need to think about how to re-deploy those people, either permanently, or temporarily. Mulligan tackles in, Hire Purpose , education, training, the classroom, the workplace and workers.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Think of the restaurant industry or the airline industry. Now we need to think about how to re-deploy those people, either permanently, or temporarily. Mulligan tackles in, Hire Purpose , education, training, the classroom, the workplace and workers.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 29, 2013

In fact, if we look at some of today’s successful companies – organizations like Zappos, Southwest Airlines, and The Container Store to name a few – we can see clear evidence that their leaders understand the importance of addressing this core psychological need.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett’s new book, The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force That Transforms Performance , follows up his and John Kotter’s earlier work with updated research, current examples, and pertinent observations. Results (Four Rs, innovation, growth, and profitability).

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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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Southwest Airlines receives a job application every two seconds. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. 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. Insight Center.

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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? So how to improve?

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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. All airlines are the same, except for their people. Relate Articles: Marketing and Sales – Some Sales Are Simply Not Worth Making.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 22, 2011

I can’t remember the contents of the article, but I remember the headline of “Obliterate, don’t innovate&#. Join the Bud to Boss Community to Connect to Resourcing Relationships Our new Bud to Boss Community will provide resources and support to help you become the best leader you can be.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

You don't know how to sequence the human genome. The point is, if you can think, you can innovate. Let other people do the hard work of figuring out how to make an airplane fly and a TV screen thinner. You can be the one who figures out that putting the TV in everyone's airplane seatback could make for a great new airline.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

To me this is a great example of extending Deming’s ideas with a great deal of useful content on how to effectively become more customer focused. 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).

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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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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. Keep it simple.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Slywotzky with Karl Weber Crown Business (2011) How to create a demand-creating culture Many books published in recent years offer excellent advice on how to create and then sustain what I call a hyphenated culture: quality-driven, customer-driven, innovation-driven, results-driven, etc. The given [.].

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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. So how to thank all of those who were bringing their hearts to work? For me, the point of his story was simple but profound: empathy is the engine of innovation. Here, too, the CEO had a plan.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2012

What are you doing to innovate it? They don’t have to talk about their competition – Apple is the innovator. Blackberry, American Airlines, Barnes & Noble, Microsoft, and Tiger Woods to name a few. They’ll tell you why, and how to improve. Create internal excitement about innovation and new ideas. Here are 5.5

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Then recently I was traveling on a major airline (Okay, it was American. Teach them good customer service skills and how to ask the right questions to determine the real problem. Help them understand how to gauge customer attitudes and emotions. Which I tried – successfully for the most part – to control.).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The American Medical Association recently announced a partnership initiative to encourage innovation and flexibility in continuing education , using blended or new approaches. Education technology companies and publishers are working hard to build these kinds of systems, as are industry groups, particularly in the healthcare arena.

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Skills How To Learning-by-Doing Airlines 8

Lead on Purpose

MAY 26, 2009

I then called Delta Airlines to cancel our flights. When I explained the situation to the customer service agent, she immediately called another person who, without any questions beyond what was necessary to understand our situation, immediately approved the full refund of our points with no obligation to rebook with them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

For airlines, it is on-time performance. While Verizon worked on shifting the momentum from landlines and voice to smartphones, FiOS (fiber-optic communication systems), and cloud services, mini-innovators created software and streamlined processes. Territories get hardened, and people seem to be out for themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. Brad Power ( bradfordpower@gmail.com ) is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. How should they better prioritize innovation? These Labs were filled with talented technologists and innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Strategy, they believe, is about how to create value for customers; operational effectiveness is about how to do so at the lowest cost. However, many companies don't realize that yoking strategy with operational effectiveness can lead to innovative business models. didn't offer peanuts to passengers on short-haul flights.

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Airlines Real Estate Operations Business Model 11

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. When Innovation Is Strategy. Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

And within another 15, the nascent automobile industry found itself rocked by yet another innovation: Henry Ford's system of mass production, which obliterated hundreds of competitors who could not produce cars as quickly or cheaply. innovators. Innovators, however, can either be linear or non-linear. entrepreneurs.

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Heron Shaw Entrepreneur Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

To do that, the team next looked inside and outside the health care for ideas about how to improve the hospital’s service. For example, they learned about scheduling from the just-in-time practices of the upscale Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn and KLM, the Netherlands’ flagship airline. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Business Improv: Experiential Learning Exercises to Train Employees to Handle Every Situation with Success by Val and Sarah Gee The secret to business growth is right before your eyes – it’s the creativity and innovation percolating in each one of your employees every minute of every day. Business Improv !

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Strategy Kotter RASCI Motivation 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The late Julian Simon (better known, perhaps, for his optimistic views about population growth and resource abundance) thought up the idea for having airlines auction off overbooked seats and persuaded the Civil Aeronautics Board, which used to regulate airlines fares and entry, to permit the idea in the 1970s. Economics and logistics.

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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. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

One business buzzword we hear almost everyday is “culture,” as in, our organization has a “strong” or “innovative” or even a “toxic” culture. For me, an organizational culture is defined by how people inside the organization interact with each other.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

I call this new breed of companies the “inclusive innovators.” For example, Southwest Airlines focused on responsible consumption and on climate action; Johnson & Johnson/Janssen chose good health and partnerships for the goals; and MasterCard chose good jobs and economic growth, reduced inequalities, and partnerships.

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Development Company Innovation Goal 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

No Fighting, Kids Don’t Want Me to Recline My Airline Seat? Think Bigger The Lovers, the Haters, and How They Helped Drive Innovation at Kraft Knowledge@Wharton Sometimes a breakthrough innovation is staring you right in the face, disguised as an incremental product extension.

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Six Sigma Airlines Tactics Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2012

Especially after looking at Sophie's Diana books, the airline ticket stubs, and her passport stamps. We wanted the press to report the mystery and nothing more. Our hope was that 15-year-olds would hear of these mysteries and reach their own conclusions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. commercial airlines and automakers failed to address this challenge along the way and ultimately had to resort to an extreme measure — bankruptcy — to deal with their obsolete assets.

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