Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

3) Don’t let “freedom from” obstruct “freedom to.” Social media can help liberate employees from traditional hierarchies and structures that stifle collaboration and innovation but only if new frameworks replace what previously existed. Sticking with Southwest Airlines, why do their flight attendants entertain their passengers?

How To 110

How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book. LARRY: Sure. Thank you, by the way.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

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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Succession Maslow Motivation Airlines 261

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

In the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the most impressive fact few reporters choose to explore in any depth is that the Boeing 777’s engine was capable of communicating long after the pilots went silent. Because the airline had the option, but declined , to pay about $10 per flight for real-time access to it.

Airlines 8

Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 8

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?

Project 11

Project Innovation Press Release Survey 11

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. Where can you find long-term strategies for your business? Remove them and you will find more time to focus on innovation.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

While Uber deserves kudos for being innovative, let’s be truthful: Its success has come from creatively exploiting a regulatory loophole. Consider the regulation-to-deregulation evolution in the long distance telephone market. AT&T once had a monopoly on long distance service and was thus regulated by the government.

Industry 8

Industry Innovation Price Long-term 8

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. Create internal excitement about innovation and new ideas. And they do it at their price. What’s up in your world?

Brand 50

Brand Reputation Customer Loyalty Industry 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

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. In other words, Hointer is figuratively — if not literally — training its customers to shop on their own terms.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Airlines Retail Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

But everyone else was making similar loans and as long as they could be off-loaded through securitization, the company could continue to make money and was under pressure to do what all the other major banks were doing. If the analyst didn't like the fact that this might constrain profits in the short term, he could sell the stock.

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CEO Benchmarking Long-term Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Alan Mulally creates a “working–together” spirit at Ford Motor Company that focuses and re-energizes the automaker, reversing a decades-long slide in market share. Herb Kelleher fosters a culture of employee empowerment and cost containment at Southwest, enabling the airline to become one of the world’s most admired and profitable carriers.

Airlines 9

Airlines Automotive Competitive Advantage Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

American Airlines said it would pay $1,000 to all 127,600 of its people, and Wells Fargo raised its base wage from $13.50 It may sound lofty, even a bit naïve, but there is a model for how a more robust and sustainable definition of success can work — and it’s been working for a long time. to $15 per hour.

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Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

A healthy low-price position has a long-term orientation built on consistency and sustainability, not quick results. airline industry in the early 1990s highlights this distinction. The choice of the price position affects the overall business model, the product quality, branding, and how to innovate.

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Price Airlines Govindarajan Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

And then we have Clay Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations : how a new technology that is initially not good enough for mainstream customers, initially gains a foothold with a set of low-end customers who are happy with a less expensive, “good enough” product. Several U.S. Clearly, this is not an exemplary approach.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

But where they have succeeded, they have left public corporations increasingly swayed by short-term results (which are easy to measure) at the expense of future success. Typically, there is a very clear medium-term investment thesis that downplays short-term pressures, with a view to an exit within three to five years.

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Short-term Long-term Leveraged Buy-out Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

And the long-term trends that have driven corporate restructuring are not going away — globalization, technical change, and ever fiercer competition between firms. The term remix describes the mash-ups of music, images, and words that appear all over the web. IBM’s surveys of top executives have picked up on this trend.

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Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Innovate products, services, and processes. You tell her what you’re thinking about, and she thinks through your clients’ opportunities all night long. More recently, sports venues, airlines, and others have begun using variable pricing to capture maximum revenue from consumers. Test options and learn quickly!

Company 10

Company Insurance Content Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

A similar pattern hold for airlines. Although some lost their way temporarily, all are characterized over the long term by their simple focus on their historic core, which allowed them to continuously grow their profit pools, and tap into new ones. Compete for the long term. And for telecom. And for many others.

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Creativity Long-term Kotter Cost of Capital 14

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.

Development 11

Development Company Innovation Goal 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Apple, Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Southwest Airlines, Procter & Gamble. The organizations I admire don't just lead their industries in terms of innovation or financial performance or market share. Who are the Top Five organization's on Fortune's list for 2011? Anybody shocked? Who were the Top Five in 2010 ?

Company 15

Company Collins Airlines Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Instead of using deep discount sales to attract customers, starting this week the chain will simply offer three prices: (1) "Every Day", (2) "Month Long Value" (theme sales such as back-to-school related products in August), and (3) "Best Prices" (clearance). Penney is typically sold at a 50% discount from list price. So what happened?

Price 15

Price Strategy Discount Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

This would reduce options for customers (huge oil companies themselves) and may reduce innovation, they reasoned. This case highlights the second lesson of the season: It is tough to argue that long-term good will come from short-term pain. That is in the end a good thing.

Guidelines 8

Guidelines Long-term Short-term Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. The accuracy rates of these predictions surpass what is possible with well-accepted risk scoring systems such as the one that emerged from the famous Framingham Heart Study , the ongoing long-term cardiovascular cohort study that is now in its third generation of participants.

Health Care 11

Health Care System Technology Airlines 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. This approach was credible as long as economic inequality was kept within reasonable bounds. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term. These are the seven areas: 1.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I don't care what field you're in or what kind of company you work for, what qualified as average performance ten years ago is below-average today, and what is average today isn't nearly good enough to create long-term success and outsized value. Friedman and Mandelbaum have nailed it. Average is over. What's your extra?

Airlines 16

Airlines Mission Statement Sharpe Brand 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

If it would have an immediate business impact, such as the impact that an airline’s loss of its reservation systems would have, then it is likely to be a key operational investment. When this happens, it is important that they become fully integrated into the core operating environment and are possibly re-engineered for long-term use.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Barriers to entry are withering, innovations are easily copied, and disruption is everywhere. As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. The current investigation into airlines notwithstanding, the U.S. It’s become part of the conventional wisdom.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

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?

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

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. Have we engaged our references and advocates in long-term relationships?

Reference 15

Reference Tips Media Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

This approach to employment allows leaders to predict and control what will come out of the job, at least in the short term. But this approach doesn’t produce the most productive, innovative work environment. One of the chief features of being human is our longing for opportunities to be valued as our authentic selves.

Power 8

Power Outsourcing Self-aware Airlines 8

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. Have we engaged our references and advocates in long-term relationships?

Reference 12

Reference Tips Media Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

I’d like to share the features of our innovative planning process, with an eye toward helping other institutions adopt the elements that will work for them. We invited presentations from designers of major hotels and airline lounges, who taught us about functional waiting areas and sustainable furniture and materials.

Health Care 8

Health Care Construction Planning Restructuring 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Before the pandemic, there were also clear gender divides in terms of remote work, with women typically more enthusiastic about remote working than men. They have been joined by companies like Ford, REI and JPMorgan Chase, all of whom have announced long-term plans for remote working.

Reis 69

Reis Transportation Real Estate Tourism 69

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

” Over the past year, I’ve discussed with Tavares and many other business leaders how core metrics impact behavior and performance over the near and long terms. “In-store experience” has long been a core metric for retailers, and for good reason. billable hours).

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8