Planview
MARCH 20, 2023
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.
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. 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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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 10, 2015
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.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 7, 2018
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.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 22, 2015
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.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 13, 2014
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.
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