IdeaScale

JANUARY 24, 2019

Tim Harford: How Frustration Makes Us More Creative . Harford explores the creative power of frustration, starting with Keith Jarrett’s legendary Koln concert, which stemmed from the wrong piano being delivered, and uses that as a launching point to explore how frustration stimulates creativity.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 28, 2015

I’m not sure where to start with the brand experience problems for Southwest Airlines in this picture. The entire Southwest Airlines ticketing area was decorated for Halloween. We talk about Southwest Airlines frequently example in Brainzooming branding and content marketing workshops. Extending Branding Strategies Too Far.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

It contains many unexpected and incongruous items covered with flowers e.g. an Emirates Airlines plane, two cars stacked one on the other or two houses leaning together. Your corporate Miracle Garden could be used by individuals who want somewhere for serious contemplation or by groups for a creative brainstorm meeting.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 17, 2015

From Fox News : The airline legroom wars may finally be coming to an end. Attribute Dependency accounts for the majority of innovative products and services, according to research conducted by my co-author, Dr. Jacob Goldenberg.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 23, 2017

One of the paradoxes of creativity is that in order to think originally, we must first familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others. Adaptation is a common and inescapable practice in creativity. One day he and I had a discussion about creative thinking and I brought up the principle of adaptation. GECKO GLOVES.

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whataventure

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Enjoy the following business model strategy to boost your creativity. Get inspired by Jumeirah’s or Singapore Airlines’ luxurious solutions, and decide for yourself. Singapore Airlines. Research shows that serial entrepreneurs develop business models more successfully than others by building on proven strategies.

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New Markets Advisors

AUGUST 20, 2018

The term “creative destruction” was coined by famed economist Joseph Schumpeter in the 1940s. there are several contexts in which a plan based on the premise of creative destruction is usually worthy of consideration. Even Southwest Airlines?—?famously industry, company dynamics, competitive advantages, and so on?—?there

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Here's a nice example of the Attribute Dependency Technique, one of five in the innovation method called Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT). It's a great tool to make products and services that are "smart." They adjust and learn, then adapt their performance to suit the needs of the user. Continue reading →

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

I was standing in line at the Baltimore airport, about to board an earlier-than-planned Southwest Airlines flight through Chicago on my way back home. I see three take-aways from this story: The benefit of creative structure to generate LOTS of ideas, because the winner may be cool product name number eighty-three.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 1, 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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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 3, 2017

The Role of Creativity in the Life of a Product Manager by Mukesh Gupta. It really took off, once an airline pilot, Robert Plath , affixed two wheels (instead of four) and a long handle to suitcases that rolled upright that the luggage with wheels took off. It is inherent nature of mankind to be biased against creativity.

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Stephen Shapiro

JUNE 2, 2020

This is more than those of American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta, and JetBlue combined (approximately $4 billion , $7 billion , $12 billion , and $2 billion , respectively – at the time of writing). That is, until Covid-19. Now everyone is scrambling to go virtual.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 10, 2017

They talk about Zappos, Southwest Airlines, and Aravind Eye Hospitals to drive home the point about turning a constraint, such as resource, time, and method, into a winning opportunity. Sometimes, people find solace in boundaries to focus and find inspiration for creative ideas. “I Didn’t think you’d ever read this, right?)

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CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Frequent readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with the concept of creative destruction , the intangible but daunting market force where an invention that is vital takes out that which has become defunct, and the nascent replaces the established. I think I may make this an annual feature. Why chronicle the abdicated?

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IdeaConnection

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Several airline passengers have a little more money in the bank thanks to an open innovation competition in Germany. They were the winners of the inaugural Frankfurt Airport Innovation Challenge, which asked members of the public from anywhere in the world for their ideas to improve the passenger experience. ” Implementation.

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eZassi

MARCH 29, 2017

Examples include: Airline Frequent Flyer Programs. Each of these systems gives rewards for participation, whether it’s crossing the street safely or getting a free airline ticket. These can be a simple as restaurant gift cards, or as creative as a 15-minute telephone call with the innovation department manager. One Day Sales.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

This calls for interaction, creativity, and the articulation of many different opinions. So, step one : Major players will not be able to compete on short haul, but the new airline can’t handle all the demand on its own. Train MBA students and executives in strategic and creative thinking. Expect new entrants.

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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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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

What if rebels are actually your agents of change, the ones who see things differently, bring creative solutions to long-lasting problems, and are brave enough to commit themselves and get things done? They're creative, can cultivate serendipity, and can easily merge even those dots that look very strange and far away to others.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

I just got A-List status on Southwest Airlines. Getting There, Here, and Yon. This flight attendant’s favorite (and frequently repeated) phrase, “Go long.” ” Okay, sure. Whatever you say. I need to learn the perks, and figure out how to take advantage of them.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

This calls for interaction, creativity, and the articulation of many different opinions. Step one : Major players will not be able to compete on short-haul, but the new airline can’t handle all the demand on its own. 5) Training MBA students and executives in strategic and creative thinking. Expect new entrants.

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 27, 2012

People have bet against railroads, phones, airlines, television, personal computers, and even guitar bands as fads—and that was before they had customers! More importantly, he worried about management culture as the path to product culture, where innovation means never-ending creativity, not tossing the dice and getting lucky on a good roll.

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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. Penney, and Radio Shack.

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BrainZooming

JULY 21, 2016

I was on a late Southwest Airlines flight where I think they decided to just not do any drink service because the flight attendants didn’t want to work. I experience the agony of defeat. Calling “gate checking” luggage “valet service” is an intriguing, albeit completely false customer experience ploy.

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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. At the end of each chapter, there is a section called “Five actions you can take today (without the boss’s permission)”.

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Planview

MAY 9, 2017

Several of your team have achieved elite status on their preferred airline. A few our “early adopter” clients, by applying creativity to their problem-solving skills, have started to experiment with and derive value by cross-pollinating their practices of innovation and quality. Is that a good sign? We share a simple example below.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 28, 2019

Southwest Airlines also understands this. What name more creatively describes what you really do at work? Gracefully walking the high wire of the Experience Economy , they know their success is intimately connected to their ability to elate the public -- to uplift, inspire, and activate joy. Head of Steam. How about YOU?

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CorporateIntel

JUNE 22, 2012

This mostly customer-friendly way of doing business is now every bit as normal for us as sitting on the back side of a travel agent’s CRT monitor waiting for him to input an airline seat query into Sabre not even a full generation ago (like, when I was in college).

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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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Planview

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

How is AFWERX harnessing the ideas and creativity of these contributors? Revolutionizing Pilot Training Open Challenge : In the last several years, the USAF has been losing pilots to the airline industry. Impact – Impact to the Air Force in efficiency and effectiveness. What challenges are happening now?

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CMOE

MARCH 10, 2021

Virtual retreats can have cost benefits over in-person retreats but usually require logistical coordination similar to an in-person retreat because you have to get more creative about how to accomplish objectives and use technology to build a highly engaging experience. Don’t hesitate to tap into the creative minds of your team members.

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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. “Aren’t there any more creative, less costly ways to solve this problem?” ” Ken asked.

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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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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As the Journal article states, “The fledging aviators in the JetBlue program would still have to meet this requirement (1,500 hours of flying), but by assessing students at various intervals short of 1,500 hours, the airline seeks to show that its curriculum can produce outstanding pilots who have spent fewer hours in actual aircraft.”

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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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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 17, 2017

When Richard Branson was mistreated by British Airways, he went on to start Virgin Airlines. Seeds of Opportunity: Good entrepreneurs always find a seed of opportunity in everything that they encounter or experience. When Elon Musk is frustrated by traffic jams enroute to work, he creates a business “The Boring Company”.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Global research into more than 200 brands in 11 industries, including hair care, airlines, cars, and media, led the authors to identify 29 distinct types of relationships, ranging from complete strangers to best friends and including both negative and positive types of connections. Marketers Don’t Need to Be More Creative.

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