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 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.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

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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Airlines Strategy Business Model Metrics 13

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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Innovation Retail Airlines Technology 15

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

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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Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

But according to data from industries including academia, health care, technology, manufacturing, retail, sports, and business services, people are actually “unconsciously incompetent” in a typical 20% to 40% of areas critical to their performance. And when they reach anything that challenges them, they get more support.

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Skills How To Learning-by-Doing Airlines 8

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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CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. 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.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

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 10

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

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies). For airlines, it is on-time performance. Some companies need to be rescued from the brink of extinction (BlackBerry), but that’s not the only kind of turnaround.

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How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

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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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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Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

health care system, a new wave of analytics and technology could help dramatically cut costly and unnecessary hospitalizations while improving outcomes for patients. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Photo by Matthew Payne. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Sponsored by Optum. Ongoing U.S.

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Health Care System Technology Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

airline learned from an internal study that about 10% of the flights into its major hub had at least a 10-minute gap between the estimated time of arrival and the actual arrival time — and 30% had a gap of at least five minutes — it decided to take action. The technologies are new and in some cases exotic. More >>.

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Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 8

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

JUNE 24, 2013

While marketers strategize heavily around how to help consumers decide what to buy, how much time do they spend thinking about how they will pay? This area of innovation is where mobile payment companies want to play, especially in markets where such technology is less than ubiquitous. Or using punch cards.

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CFO Loyalty Technology Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

A fundamental challenge of any firm – especially a huge global company such as GE – is how to balance nurturing tomorrow’s future businesses, with the resource demands for running and improving today’s operations. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.

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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 they can create a lot of value by generating new business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. They are acutely attuned to disruptive innovation, and their size makes them nimble.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

The 9/11 terrorist attacks; the Mumbai, Bali, and London Tube bombings; the attempted bombing of a Delta airlines flight in December 2009; and suicide bomber attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan are examples of the personal magnetism of Oussama Bin-Laden and the Al-Qaeda cause.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Leaders need to focus on how to create meaningful targets that use the best of each approach. Create a technology engine that powers the front lines. Investing in better and more useful technologies is critical for sales to move more quickly and effectively on the leads that marketing can uncover.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. The airline industry has experienced great volatility from deregulation, takeovers through mergers and acquisitions, and, as always, unpredictable forces of nature. Superconsumers can exist in your company across all functions. Unlocking Energy.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

As business strategists, we see endless amounts of writing about how to achieve differentiation. But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology. And we see many executives trying to take this advice to heart.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. These functions are like a nest of hungry sparrow chicks screaming for attention, mouths gaping!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Their innovation efforts tend to be focused wholly on the creation of new value; meanwhile, the question of how exactly they will be compensated for it usually goes unexamined. Price leadership: A no-frills airline constantly advertises the lowest fares on any route served. Why is it that?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Innovation vs. Regulation. Many organizations, particularly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, are saddled with trying to do business, let along innovate, under increasingly crushing regulatory environments. Advanced technology is at the core of virtually every company’s business model today. Humanization.

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Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

While the idea of reaching out to consumers via smartphone apps is clearly not new, companies have been stubbornly hesitant to embrace app technologies. They didn't treat the internet seriously, or if they did, they didn't know how to formulate a strategy once they had moved to the net. Technology.

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Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Some of the most exciting — and challenging — innovations in social media are around how to enable users of sites like Facebook and Pinterest to make recommendations, referrals, or "likes" of the products and services they use. How often do they fail to find a suitable reference at all?

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Reference Tips Media Case Study 15

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Systems and Structures The first three principles of strategic leadership involve nontraditional but highly effective approaches to decision making, transparency, and innovation. By setting up ways for people to bring their innovative thinking to the surface, you can help them learn to make the most of their own creativity.

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Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Some of the most exciting — and challenging — innovations in social media are around how to enable users of sites like Facebook and Pinterest to make recommendations, referrals, or "likes" of the products and services they use. How often do they fail to find a suitable reference at all?

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Reference Tips Media Case Study 12

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. In each simulated time period, the player makes strategic decisions and receives feedback from past decisions—on how fast to grow, how to set prices, or how aggressively to advertise.

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Seminar Learning Curve Strategy Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Bringing new technology and tools into your organization can increase productivity, boost sales, and help you make better, faster decisions. How can you incentivize and reward employees who use it? ” Here are some ideas for encouraging the adoption of a new technology. Choose technology wisely. State your case.

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Technology CRM Training System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But somewhere along the way, we recognized that they were based on definable pipelines and applied technology to manage those pipelines. What if we applied the same thinking to innovation? After all, innovation, like marketing and sales, is a pipeline. Once you put innovation into a system like this, you can track everything.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. Re-visit big, inflexible projects — The 80/20 rule often applies to corporate innovation portfolios; a few projects consume the lion's share of cash. The company has invested in this brand's innovation in many ways.

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