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5 Factors Determining Success or Failure in the Shift From Project to Product

Planview

Dependencies are difficult to tackle in software development since value streams are complex, structured more like an airline network than a manufacturing line. Organizations are more likely to operationalize a product model when all internally consumed capabilities are available as self-service.

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Case Study: Challenge the Boss or Stand Down?

Harvard Business Review

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. Given the market opportunities in the Eastern region, Tom and his team will have the most-aggressive growth targets — 15% for the airline, hotel, and car rental markets combined.

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Why Peanuts Matter

Harvard Business Review

Although many people didn't notice, Nintendo took a similar route in the video game industry, where new technologies were making games complex; intimidating would-be players; and increasing R&D, manufacturing, and software development costs enormously. In the 1990s, low-cost airlines such as Southwest Airlines in the U.S.

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Why Your Customer Loyalty Program Isn’t Working

Harvard Business Review

Aggressive moves by airlines to migrate frequent flyer metrics from miles flown to dollars spent have caused bargain-hunting road warriors worldwide to whine about “disloyalty programs.” Airlines have clearly calculated that customers who spend more are more valuable to them than customers who fly more.

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How Smart Speakers Are Poised to Reinvent the Travel Industry

Harvard Business Review

If consumers start turning regularly to smart speakers for their travel needs, they could end up interacting less and less with traditional airline, hotel, and even online travel agency brands. They also may provide airlines, hotel chains, and rental car companies more clout when setting up smart-speaker partnerships.

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A Brief History of the Ways Companies Compete

Harvard Business Review

Scale drove consolidation and globalization of industries throughout the mid-twentieth century and it still does today, such as in steel, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. Scale and efficiency are mostly about competing by lowering costs.

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How the Software Industry Redefines Product Management

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, software is emerging as the proving ground for the future of management practices, the way auto manufacturing used to be the proving ground for new management practices (think of the Toyota Production System ). Multi-function teams build software enhancements that are rolled up into “releases” which are deployed every six weeks.