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Building the innovation stack

Paul Hobcraft

These stacks follow an established logic, such as working through idea discovery, relating to given problems, exploring solutions, and determining the final model or design and the execution delivery to achieve this. We stack them and they interlink. Different innovation thinking needs always require different adaption.

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The Interdependence of Empathy and Gratitude in Customer Experience

Tullio Siragusa

Tangible Examples of Empathy and Gratitude inAction Several companies exemplify the seamless integration of empathy and gratitude in their operations: Singapore Airlines : When a customer faced a medical emergency and had to cancel a trip, Singapore Airlines promptly refunded the airfare upon receiving a hospital discharge note.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business Review

Every business is, willingly or unwillingly, a competitor on a software playing field, no matter which sector it’s in. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king. You may be thinking: but my company isn’t a software company.

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Google Will Change Web Marketing in 2012

Harvard Business Review

While easing users into changing search results pages , Google has also designed a new method for websites to structure data so that its crawler can better pull information. Google acquired ITA Software in 2010, a software company that created airfare and travel management software for airlines and resellers.

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How the Software Industry Redefines Product Management

Harvard Business Review

Quick, name a product that was developed without using software. Software has become a crucial part of almost all goods and services. The rapid pace of change in software (e.g., For an example, I spoke with Andy Singleton , CEO of Assembla , a firm that helps software development teams build software faster.

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The Problem of Bolt-On Acquisitions in a Digital World

Harvard Business Review

At MyEdu, we had developed a college student profile product, and Blackboard – one of the largest educational software companies in the world – purchased our company to supplement their existing product portfolio with this rich new capability. It’s reasonable to expect that our knowledge would pervade the acquiring company.

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How Customer Service Can Turn Angry Customers into Loyal Ones

Harvard Business Review

Using data from Twitter (where one of us works), we designed an experiment to study customer service interactions in two industries that generate a significant number of customer service complaints: airlines and wireless carriers. from March 2015 to April 2016. Is the interaction praise or scorn? Is the interaction praise or scorn?