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Focus on Your Customer's Customer

Harvard Business Review

That's exactly what Portuguese airport operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal did in its quest to attract more major airlines and connecting routes. Their findings quickly confirmed that ANA's focus on its customers' customers would benefit the airlines, as well.

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Why Every Company Should Consider Creating a “Cyber No-Fly List”

Harvard Business Review

The No-Fly List is only one tactic that the U.S. Because of these challenges, technologies that automate collection, optimization, and integration of threat intelligence play a critical role in helping companies build their cyber no-fly lists. Newly discovered cyber threats are also an important part of the list.

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Let Algorithms Decide – and Act – for Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions. There are no shortcuts.

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The Problem of Bolt-On Acquisitions in a Digital World

Harvard Business Review

It might be an earnings boost, where the post-acquisition company continues to operate independently while increasing the value of the parent company. 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.

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Which Customers to Listen to, When

Harvard Business Review

In the software industry, giants like Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM have all invested heavily in the cloud technologies that are disrupting software. In car rentals, firms like Hertz and Enterprise are making bets on car-sharing operations. For a real-world example, just consider the airline industry.

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Let Algorithms Decide – and Act – for Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions. There are no shortcuts.

Hammer 8
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When Good Management Is a Matter of Life and Death

Harvard Business Review

Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines predicted eleven out of the last three recessions. soldiers operating a radar station saw something that looked like an incoming airplane; they telephoned an officer, who told them to forget it (the attack occurred 53 minutes later). Leaders need to be productively paranoid.