Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

There is a myth In the sectors that are termed hard-to-abate industries such as petrochemicals, cement, steel, trucking, airlines, and shipping it is not possible to find non-fossil alternatives, and demand keeps rising. Then what is hard-to-abate mean when it comes to difficult sectors of the economy?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 18, 2020

Already we are seeing some worryingly severe consequences, with global stock market volatility, consumer retail hysteria, and whole airline fleets grounded indefinitely. You’re no doubt already familiar with using your Qmarkets platform to engage your employees on a companywide basis.

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 4, 2019

Source: Southwest Airlines Yesterday, Southwest Airlines co-founder and long-time CEO Herb Kelleher died at age 87. The company delivered strong profits, satisfied its customers, and kept its employees engaged and productive. What can we learn from Kelleher’s leadership at Southwest? You can’t just follow the herd.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

Digital products in the hands of customers, such as banking, airline or music apps, represent the last piece of the digitization puzzle since many of the back-end systems and processes became computerized over the last several decades. Leaders must learn new skills to help teams navigate the obstacles they will encounter.

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Rmukesh Gupta

APRIL 10, 2019

Like Southwest Airlines’ obsession on being the lowest cost airlines or Alcoa’s obsession of having zero incidents in their factories or Amazon’s obsession on serving the customer what they want (even if they themselves don’t know what they want) or Apple’s obsession on design. .

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Qmarkets

JUNE 1, 2017

His Doctorate degree (2012) in Management focused learning in the areas of organizational change, leadership theory, and strategy. 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.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 25, 2020

With RPA technology, however, software that has the ability to adapt, learn and self-correct deals with the exception and interacts with the payroll system without human assistance. American Express Global Business Travel uses RPA to automate the process of canceling an airline ticket and issuing refunds. Engage IT early and often.

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Rmukesh Gupta

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Hotels, airlines are known to have done this for ages and done well. This could be an option for airlines seats, cineplexes, conferences, railway/bus tickets, car parking, workshops, fund-raisers, limited edition items, etc. Uber , Ola and AirBnB all are known to have surge pricing in place. So do cineplexes.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 2, 2015

This is developing the brand promise ‘inside-out’ and communicating it ‘outside-in,’ implying employees are learning about the new big brand promise at the same time as customers. He was flying on United Airlines as it introduced ‘United Rising.’ We’re always the last to know.’.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

His Doctorate degree (2012) in Management focused learning in the areas of organizational change, leadership theory, and strategy. 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.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 1, 2016

This blog post is for you if you plan to become or already are a leader who intends to lead their team in a world where change is the only constant and engagement (employee/customer) is extremely difficult to build. One of the best examples of this behaviour that I have come across is by Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

It's about time we acknowledge the power of rebels, and create a supportive environment for them to unleash their talent, suggested Simone van Neerven, now Founder at reBella and Innovation Catalyst, and former innovator at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, during our recent Innov8rs Unconference 2022. Here's what that means in practice.

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KindlingApp

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Whether you are stuck on making decisions or want to increase engagement, each chapter comes with multiple examples that can be adopted to an organization’s process. The authors cite lessons from corporations such as Toyota, Southwest Airlines, and Kraft to drive home the significant benefits of a correctly executed innovation program.

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CMOE

MARCH 10, 2021

The organization is looking to reduce travel expenditures and allocate those resources to facilitation support from an organization effectiveness or learning and development vendor. As you structure the virtual retreat, look for ways to vary the delivery method, so you can keep engagement and productivity high. What is the budget?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

For example, Delta Air Lines, one of the leading airlines, managed to get back to their leading position even after bankruptcy. Organizations should make changes in their strategy, governance, engagement, and incentives. The Harvard study cited above also advices that alternative ways to balance portfolios are needed.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Well–conceived, well–designed, and well–delivered customer experiences are the core foundation for achieving the sort of marketplace leadership that has become the hallmark of companies like Amazon, Apple, Disney, Southwest Airlines, and Zappos.

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Planview

MAY 9, 2017

You found yourself rapidly ascending the learning curve. At some point you were surprised to learn that, in the past year, your team and you had facilitated a couple hundred value stream mapping exercises. Several of your team have achieved elite status on their preferred airline. Is that a good sign?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Many commentators talk glibly about employee “engagement,” as if that concept were all-encompassing and easy to define. Next come the elements of true engagement, such as the feeling that you’re part of an extraordinary team, that you’re learning and growing, and that you can make a real impact.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The process of engaging with the AFWERX Challenge is very interactive. Revolutionizing Pilot Training Open Challenge : In the last several years, the USAF has been losing pilots to the airline industry. How does AFWERX Challenge work? Participants can view, comment, rate and community vote on each other’s submissions.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 3, 2017

We will then try to learn what did the product managers (in some cases, entrepreneurs themselves) do so that their products became successful. For many months, he spent a lot of time in the New York Public library trying to read and learn everything there was to the imaging process. What do we learn from them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

In order to increase profitability, airlines now charge separately for many previously bundled services — such as checking baggage, providing seats with leg room, eating meals on-board, etc. And indeed these previously free services have generated substantial incremental revenue for the airlines.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

As businesses enter the unchartered waters of machine intelligence – where machines learn by experience and improve their performance over time – researchers are trying to predict its impact on jobs and work. How robotics and machine learning are changing business. Insight Center. The Automation Age. Sponsored by KPMG.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

I decided to test his claim by interviewing current and former C-suite executives, including Bob Crandall, former CEO of American Airlines; David Norton, former CMO of Harrah’s casinos; Will Ethridge, CEO of Pearson Education; and Pat O’Keefe, former CEO of Watts Water Technologies. And when it came to expanding our presence in the U.S.

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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). Men are being dragged along, but they've revealed a comparative lack of engagement. Southwest Airlines? They unleash the creativity of their employees and learn from their best customers. Stage 2: Anger.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

Once companies are logging and storing detailed data on all their customer engagements and internal processes, what’s next? Firms value accurate demand forecasts because inventory is expensive to keep on shelves and stockouts are detrimental to both short-term revenue and long-term customer engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

It engages my mind. As a child I felt no particular interest in pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, computers, oil and gas, health and beauty aids, medical devices, airlines, or shipbuilding, all of which I’ve simulated or war-gamed. I love my career in competitive strategy, research, and teaching. ” I chose the latter.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. My point is, inside the walls of your company, there are superconsumers who are passionate and engaged. Longer tenure reduces the challenge of a steep learning curve.” Unlocking Energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Which of our customers would key buyers most like to learn from? Have we engaged our references and advocates in long-term relationships? Of the five steps the firm uses in its sales process, three must include some form of customer reference content or engagement. Can your organization answer these questions?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Many of the things we need to know to be successful – to innovate, collaborate, solve problems, and identify new opportunities – aren’t learned simply through schooling, training, or personal experience. Coactive vicarious learning. As a manager for Bain & Co.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

The best, like American Airlines, make it feel natural. That limits the ability of companies to engage authentically and emotionally with their customers. A loyal customer who likes and follows a brand for engagement today may need technical support tomorrow. It forces customers to learn company hierarchies and department.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Which of our customers would key buyers most like to learn from? Have we engaged our references and advocates in long-term relationships? Of the five steps the firm uses in its sales process, three must include some form of customer reference content or engagement. Can your organization answer these questions?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

It may walk like a person and talk like a person, but without the nuance, context, and tone that make for real engagement, what’s left rings false. While this type of engagement represents a step forward in personalizing experiences with customers, clumsy efforts at retargeting often feel intrusive and annoying.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

But what I find so unsettling about the explosion of inequality in the nation is that it flies in the face of everything I've learned about what it takes to build a prosperous organization. It's also why great old-line companies such as Southwest Airlines, Publix Supermarkets, and W.L. It's better for the C.E.O.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Nike itself didn’t do the giving; it simply enabled a platform for fans to engage deeper within the community with other fans. That level of engagement will require building new interactions that engage small groups of fans within a community — fans at the “tribe” level — that share the same interests.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

More evidence of this trend comes from the Conscious Capitalism movement, whose membership includes companies like Southwest Airlines, Google, the Container Store, Whole Foods Market, and Nordstrom. Marcus Buckingham’s work on employee engagement has shown that engagement is critical to organizational success.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

A community-driven business doesn’t have to run itself the way its community does, any more than an airline’s backoffice should be run by two people in a cockpit. Community-driven businesses should learn two important lessons from the Reddit rebellion. The new CEO, co-founder Steve Huffman, is off to a good start.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

And now we hear often about the “gamification” of work—using elements of competition, feedback and point scoring to better engage employees and even track performance. First, there has never been a greater need for companies to learn new ways of doing things in response to a complex and dynamic business environment.

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