Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Read on to discover innovation best practices from Robert's experience working at a range of renowned companies, including Citibank, Delta Airlines, and most recently Southwest Airlines. It is through this diverse source of participation that ideas take shape in creative ways.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

This calls for interaction, creativity, and the articulation of many different opinions. This could for instance be future competitors or collaborators and the force could be competition from new entrants. 5) Training MBA students and executives in strategic and creative thinking. Expect new entrants.

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CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Well, if Jeff Bezos who is currently sitting on top of the business world knows that sooner or later his company is toast, I think that is about as telling a tale of creative destruction as I can imagine! U S Airways is also likely to evaporate when its merger with American Airlines is completed. No, you forgot, too?

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Video Creativity Strategy Strategy 40

KindlingApp

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

These tactics (and their presence in the book) can help motivate and inspire creativity for middle managers to begin building a business case even without buy-in from senior leaders. On the other hand, we have large clients who run annual idea competitions, and monetary prizes do a great job of driving quick participation.

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Innovation Management Management Innovation Programs Case Study 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

A similar pattern hold for airlines. Some of this, business historians might say, is simply due to what Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" — a desirable culling of businesses that can't keep pace. A list of the top 20 banks today contains only seven that were on the list a decade ago. And for telecom.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

As president of RSA Ground, the subsidiary of Rising Sun Airlines responsible for servicing its planes at airports across Japan, he’d been under enormous pressure in recent months. Ken worked faster and more diligently in an effort to win once, but he wasn’t sure the competition had the same effect on the rest of the group.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

They include the biotech, semiconductor, personal computer, and airline industries. Some of these leaders have become legends, such as Andy Grove of Intel and Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines. Empirical Creativity. So we should expect these leaders to be highly creative — to create new, wonderful products.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Optimists suggest that by taking over cognitive but labor-intensive chores the intelligent machines will free human workers to do more “creative” tasks, and that by working side by side with us they will boost our imagination to achieve more. This is the reason airlines invest in elongated career paths for pilots.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

This is the "focused entry" strategy, a well-worn path in the history of successful startups (see Southwest Airlines). Southwest Airlines? This is where the competitive brain can get delusional. They revisit the blueprints of the business, and redesign a model that can win in a brave, new competitive world.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In a world of hyper-competition and limited attention , the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special. Recently, at a conference of marketers and brand specialists, I learned about a fast-growing company called Kulula Airlines, sort of the Southwest of South Africa. Photo: Iwan Baan. Average is over.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Success on the web is achievable, but it requires adopting strategies from other industries such as airlines and credit cards, which also operate in a more cut-throat, price-focused environment. When you think about it, internet retail today is similar to the airline market before frequent flyer programs were introduced.

Marketing 12

Marketing Competition Industry Leadership 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Apple, Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Southwest Airlines, Procter & Gamble. But for me, the most admirable companies don't just sell competitive products and services. Is this company as consistent as it is creative? Who are the Top Five organization's on Fortune's list for 2011? Anybody shocked? Who were the Top Five in 2010 ?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Within weeks he had secured a contract with a major airline to accelerate kiosk rollout in 20 airports and buy software upgrades across their locations. Tom, you're ambitious and creative," she'd begun, solemnly. Airline kiosks represent a mature, saturated market. Tom, most of our revenues come from the airlines market.

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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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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. Typically, more competition leads to deregulation. Ridesharing is here to stay and as a result of this competition, it’s time to deregulate. Here’s how.

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Industry Innovation Competition Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. The airline industry has experienced great volatility from deregulation, takeovers through mergers and acquisitions, and, as always, unpredictable forces of nature.

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Culture Creativity Strategy Strategy 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

” Oblivious to the plight of drivers, the official Trabant tagline reflected a rather different perspective: “Creativity combined with boldness and the revolutionary will of a working class that has been freed from exploitation have given birth to this inconspicuous and yet sensational car.”

Learning 12

Learning Survey Industry Study 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

We found that the companies most famous for their cultures — from Southwest Airlines to Trader Joe’s — maximize the good motives , while minimizing the bad ones. She found that the play group created poems that were later deemed about 26% more creative than the poems of the pressure group. Culture is an ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

When a unique brand personality manifests itself in a unique customer experience, it enables a brand to rise above competitive comparison. Southwest Airlines exists in a class of its own in large part due to its fun personality. Harley-Davidson, Trader Joe’s, and The Honest Co.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

In researching my book Move , I talked to pilots who told me about creative (but safe) workarounds, like bringing in their personal tablets and taking breaks mid-flight to leave the cockpit and update weather maps using cabin Wi-Fi, or snapping screenshots of route maps before takeoff. Instead of battling it out, why not build bridges?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

So they advertise the available job, offer a competitive compensation package, and a queue forms. buying an airline ticket or configuring a printer). And when employees feel they can bring both their heads and their hearts to work, innovation and creativity thrive, and customers notice that employees authentically care about them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Think Apple, or Southwest Airlines, or for a more recent example, Zipcar. Helping customers build social capital may seem far removed from the concerns a competitive business should occupy itself with. This is an area of tremendous creativity. And here's where it gets interesting.

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Software Review Technical Review Software Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2017

When the builders encountered some technical difficulties while trying to erect the wheel, Richard Branson, the mercurial founder of rival airline Virgin Atlantic Airways, seized the opportunity. Trash-talking is competitive incivility. Our main finding was that trash-talking increases the psychological stakes of competition.

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Competition Creativity Disruption Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. ” You don’t want to rein in creativity, she says, but you do want to focus an innovation team on things that could realistically be commercialized. At Aon Health, part of $11.7

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

A key to this is that, faced with the constraints of extreme poverty and a severe shortage of resources, these Indian hospitals have had to operate more nimbly and creatively to serve the vast number of poor people in need of medical care in the subcontinent. Consequently, value-based competition is not a pipe dream but a reality in India.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

Many sales forces do not have estimates of local market potential readily available, and developing them requires work and creativity. In some industries, such as airlines and pharmaceuticals, data companies sell information on sales of all competitive products by account or local market. Deduce the data.

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Data Marketing Competition Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Consider Southwest Airlines, which shook up the airline industry with its low-cost, high-customer service approach to air travel. Historically, corporate Goliaths have taken one of two approaches to this kind of upstart competition—try to muscle them out of the market or bring them into the fold through acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Jim Whitehurst got a short course in doing just that when he arrived as CEO of the rough-and tumble Red Hat from his post as COO of the rather more buttoned-up Delta Airlines four years ago. Yeaney cites three key benefits: First, the process generated "more creativity, accountability, and commitment." The effect?

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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. Seeing bottom-up initiatives through.

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Training Strategy Strategy Data 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The Financial Times has claimed that they are “becoming popular among city lawyers, bankers, and other professionals keen to gain a competitive advantage over colleagues.” The drug improves their ability to plan and make decisions and has a positive effect on learning and creativity. — and work performance.

Exercises 15

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

From airlines to autos, and from TVs to taxis, individual entrepreneurs have upended one industry after another. ” However, this objection conflates a company’s unique competitive traits with the organizational capabilities necessary for reimagining the enterprise. In that case, neither job is executed well.

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Change Company Entrepreneurship Disruption 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. It doesn’t matter if your company culture is friendly or competitive, nurturing or analytical.

Culture 8

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

What happens if next time it’s not a near-miss , but a direct hit of a commercial airliner by a Russian plane that turns its transponder off? So there are definitely some headwinds that make it more difficult if you’re a country like Brazil or Indonesia just opening up and being more competitive.

Policies 13

Policies System Marketing Leadership 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

” That’s why the All Blacks invented Rippa Rugby to be played in primary schools, the RCA hold a young art competition for 4–18 year olds every year, and NASA runs a 10-week program for school graduates each summer. Stable stewardship: 10+ year tenure, 1+ year handover. Stable stewardship. Disruptive experts.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Faced with a competitive challenge from Netflix, CEO John Antioco came up with what seems, even in retrospect, to be a viable plan. Southwest Airlines has prospered by being “the fun low cost airline” and seeks to be nothing else. That’s what appears to have happened at Blockbuster. Gary Hamel and C.K.

Groups 9

Groups Study System Leadership 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Faced with a competitive challenge from Netflix, CEO John Antioco came up with what seems, even in retrospect, to be a viable plan. Southwest Airlines has prospered by being “the fun low cost airline” and seeks to be nothing else. That’s what appears to have happened at Blockbuster. Gary Hamel and C.K.

Groups 8

Groups Study System Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

And though I love seeing how people are able to make a living unleashing their creativity on Etsy or YouTube, this isn't the ultimate promise either. Social tools were enabling everyday people to break through traditional barriers to connect, build their audiences and careers and get more creative than ever before. Another bonus.)

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