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The Price is Right: Decoding the Art of Product Pricing

Tom Spencer

MARCH 8, 2024

One of the most common problems business leaders face is how to price a product. From entrepreneurs putting a new product on the market to executives at a public company revamping a product line, effective pricing is a key pillar of any successful sales and marketing strategy.

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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2023

While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail. Why waste years scaling up a product that from the outset never performed the job that customers needed doing? It has come to be known as product-market fit.

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How One Airline Is Using AR to Improve Operations

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2022

Lessons in enterprise AR’s potential from China Southern Airlines.

Airlines

Airlines Operations Enterprise Productivity

Crazy Airline Gobbledegook Nonsense

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The airline business is like nothing on earth, and airline people are some of the most common interactions we consultants have. Aircraft - This is one of the most common words to escape from the lips of airline people. But no one outside the airline industry says aircraft. Airline personnel have mastered passive voice!

Airlines

Airlines Operations Travel Engineering

Moving Beyond Stage-Gate Project Management

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This article describes how German automaker BMW and European airline Air France have developed new approaches to managing large projects aimed at creating fundamentally new products, ideas or that profoundly alter human behaviors.

Management

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Venezuela Strengthens Currency Controls in Impossible Mission to Stop Capital Flight; Airlines Collapse; End of the Line

MishTalk

JANUARY 23, 2014

In an effort to get money out of Venezuela, airline ticket sales had been booked solid for months. One airline cancelled all flights. Venezuelan bonds plunged to the lowest in more than two years after the government announced the latest partial devaluation of the bolivar, this time for airlines and foreign direct investment.

Airlines

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Warren Buffett Is Betting the Airline Oligopoly Is Here to Stay

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Warren Buffett got burned with an airline investment in the 1990s. airlines, taking a 4.16% stake in American Airlines, smaller stakes in United and Delta, and an undisclosed stake in Southwest Airlines. airlines had one thing in common: their largest investors. billion in the four largest U.S.

Airlines

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Airlines’ New Basic Economy Fares Show the Power of No-Frills Pricing

Harvard Business

MARCH 3, 2017

American Airlines and United Airlines recently joined Delta in offering passengers a lower-priced option to fly: basic economy. At first blush, it’s difficult to see how a further degradation of airline service can enhance profits and attract customers. Want to save a couple of bucks on your next flight?

Airlines

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. This includes not only commercial airlines, but also cargo planes and military aircraft. The Aviation Market. per year over the same period.

Trends

Trends Engineering Travel Airlines

Crude Plunges Following OPEC Decision to Not Cut Production

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Nonetheless, and in spite of falling prices and pleas from Venezuela to restrict production, OPEC decided to take no action. The group maintained its collective production ceiling of 30 million barrels a day, Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, said yesterday after the 12 nations met in Vienna. Brent crude dropped as much as 8.4

Productivity

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Sometimes “Small Data” Is Enough to Create Smart Products

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Another interesting example of small, high precision data being used to make big gains with AI can be found in the airline industry. In 2015, Boeing launched the Aerospace Data Analytics Lab in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to develop AI technology for airlines. How can you put these ideas to work for your company?

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Mergers & Acquisitions: Strategy

Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2013

MERGERS have had a ubiquitous presence in the news recently as leaders in the airline , publishing , and telecommunications industries have taken steps to consolidate. Just this week, two of the largest advertising entities, Omnicom and Publicis, announced a $35.1 billion merger.

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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

Southwest Airlines: Southwest Airlines is known for its strong commitment to servant leadership. As a result, the airline has consistently ranked high in customer satisfaction and employee engagement. The company’s founder, Herb Kelleher, believed that putting employees first was the key to success.

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. This is a change from the differentiation strategies of the past.

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Manufacturing Companies Need to Sell Outcomes, Not Products

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. A piece of machinery to meet a product need? Product development teams will need to focus on delivering products as a service to enable real-time service level monitoring. Product performance data helps inform future improvements.

Productivity

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Leadership in World 2.0 is Going to Look a Lot Like World 1.0

Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

To be sure, if you own cruise ships, an airline, or a live concert venue, you’ll have to deal with serious changes to your business models for a while. Manufacturing plants will still have human beings assembling products, even if they’re wearing personal protective equipment.

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

When partners in an alliance come into conflict, it can be just what is needed to produce a technically and commercially successful product. ” This idea that disagreement and conflict between groups can be productive is not new. Similar failures among cockpit crews can lead to airline crashes. The results were fascinating.

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Consultant Ninja: Technology/Device Social Crutch: Management.

Consultant Ninja

MARCH 4, 2013

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman

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The Secret Sauce to a Superior Customer Experience

Rick Conlow

MARCH 22, 2023

Websites that are unresponsive or marketed products that are unavailable. Delta Airlines employees never seem to be happy. Automated chat services that cannot help and overall slow responses. How do the above play out in organizations? For example, Target consistently is out of stock on items, and has website problems.

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Consultant Ninja: The Etymology of Consulting: Management.

Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Consulting Management Airlines

Consultant Ninja: How Consultants Manage Frequent Flyer Miles.

Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Labels: Consulting , Productivity , Visualization. They don't seem to have a miles program of their own, but you can accrue airline miles. They don't seem to have a miles program of their own, but you can accrue airline miles.Good Article. Productivity. (6). Check it out. Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 9:15 PM.

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The Sunday circular

Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 12, 2020

In essence, there were two prices for these products, based on how much the consumer wanted to spend and how they chose to allocate their time. If a consumer cared about saving money more than time or hassle, they could clip the coupons, bring them to the store and pay a different price than people who couldn’t be bothered.

Airlines

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What Motivates Business Leaders and Investors?

Tom Spencer

JULY 18, 2021

A common approach employed by successful creatives is to harness their love for a specific person and convert that passion into productive energy. Buying shares in Hertz or Spirit Airlines in mid-March 2020 could have made sense if you reasonably believed that other speculators would push the price of these stocks higher.

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Real Estate Airlines Trends Energy

Consultant Ninja: America's "Lost Decade" of Housing: Management.

Consultant Ninja

JULY 26, 2011

I guess, before companies start hiring again, business and corporations increasing production, it is unlikely that individuals start purchasing houses. Productivity. (6). I wonder if this is a good buying opportunity or the market will stay flat for some time ahead. of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40).

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Real Estate Consulting Airlines

Consultant Ninja: Consulting Verbatims: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

JUNE 20, 2011

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Consulting Management Airlines

There’s A Rule of Law and A Law of Rules

Alan Weiss

MAY 12, 2020

But why is it we make production cars capable of 200 MPH (or even 150 MPH with a governor)? In “normal” times airline flight attendants will announce that they are there primarily for our safety. If the speed limit were 75 MPH, people would do 95 MPH.

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The reverse value/luxury curve

Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

For most products and services, we rate them on a curve. Of course the seat on the discount airline was cramped, but that’s okay because it was cheap. Of course this Camry doesn’t look or ride like a Porsche, don’t be stupid… But, the opposite is true in the high end.

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McKinsey Airlines Software Course

Consultant Ninja: Future Demand Borrowing, Revisited.

Consultant Ninja

JANUARY 25, 2010

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Analysis

Consultant Ninja: Future Demand Borrowing, Revisited and.

Consultant Ninja

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Bain

Consultant Ninja: Yes, this blog shall continue: Management.

Consultant Ninja

JULY 22, 2009

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Management

Consultant Ninja: Resiliency, Panic, and Anxiety: Management.

Consultant Ninja

JULY 29, 2012

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Consulting Management Airlines

Consultant Ninja: Thee Sunbeam method of Government Stimulus.

Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Government Consulting Airlines

Consultant Ninja: Engineers as Rock Stars: Management Consulting.

Consultant Ninja

AUGUST 12, 2009

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

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Consultant Ninja: "It Flies": Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

DECEMBER 15, 2009

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Management

Consultant Ninja: The Math of Jefferson County, Alabama's Sewer.

Consultant Ninja

AUGUST 13, 2011

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Analysis

Consultant Ninja: Gotta Keep Dry During Typhoon Morakot.

Consultant Ninja

AUGUST 13, 2009

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Bain

Consultant Ninja: A Veritable Gold Mine. Gold I tell you.

Consultant Ninja

JULY 23, 2009

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Bain

Career Security in a Recession

CaseInterview.com

MAY 1, 2020

That job offer from the major airline that looked very appealing before seems like a terrible idea a few weeks later. If you want to lead a redesign of a particular product, you need to sell someone on why your approach makes the most sense.

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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

The airline industry is a cautionary tale of what happens when companies emulate new business models without bringing over the associated mental models. For over 40 years, Southwest Airlines has been a disruptive force in the airline industry, creating an entirely new category and a record 43 consecutive years of profitability.

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How to Evaluate Your Marketing Team

Prudent Pedal

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

My approach delineated between my two schools of marketing thought in the professional services world–the Productivity School and the Growth School. If you are a Productivity School firm, use the Productivity School questions. Think Ritz Carlton, Southwest Airlines, or London’s Underground subway.

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Marketing How To Airlines Productivity

Consultant Ninja: New Word: Drecession: Management Consulting.

Consultant Ninja

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman Consulting Management Airlines

Defense, then Offense

CaseInterview.com

JUNE 1, 2020

The reason this occurs is that these two things happen in a recession: First, some opportunities get destroyed (think: airlines, hotels, restaurants). In your market, this might be a product opportunity. What you can do is show a customer how what they demand can be met by your product. economic history.

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Show report: CX and EX inextricably linked, with empathy as the glue

1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2023

Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian’s announcement that in-flight wi-fi would be free for loyalty members went over with flying colors, drawing hoots and rousing applause. The event, held live after a three-year hiatus, is so named because it focuses on the four pillars of experience management: customer, employee, brand, and product experience.

Report

Report Healthcare Airlines Trends

Do You Have an Aligned Risk Culture?

LSA Global

JULY 5, 2023

Risky Corporate Cultures Compared to companies that want to mitigate risk, companies with a risky corporate culture celebrate taking chances, have formal processes and systems to create deliberate risk taking, and release new products and services broadly before all problems are resolved.

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The Price is Right: Decoding the Art of Product Pricing

Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Trending Sources

How One Airline Is Using AR to Improve Operations

Crazy Airline Gobbledegook Nonsense

Moving Beyond Stage-Gate Project Management

Venezuela Strengthens Currency Controls in Impossible Mission to Stop Capital Flight; Airlines Collapse; End of the Line

Warren Buffett Is Betting the Airline Oligopoly Is Here to Stay

Airlines’ New Basic Economy Fares Show the Power of No-Frills Pricing

Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Crude Plunges Following OPEC Decision to Not Cut Production

Sometimes “Small Data” Is Enough to Create Smart Products

Mergers & Acquisitions: Strategy

Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Manufacturing Companies Need to Sell Outcomes, Not Products

Leadership in World 2.0 is Going to Look a Lot Like World 1.0

The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Consultant Ninja: Technology/Device Social Crutch: Management.

The Secret Sauce to a Superior Customer Experience

Consultant Ninja: The Etymology of Consulting: Management.

Consultant Ninja: How Consultants Manage Frequent Flyer Miles.

The Sunday circular

What Motivates Business Leaders and Investors?

Consultant Ninja: America's "Lost Decade" of Housing: Management.

Consultant Ninja: Consulting Verbatims: Management Consulting Blog

There’s A Rule of Law and A Law of Rules

The reverse value/luxury curve

Consultant Ninja: Future Demand Borrowing, Revisited.

Consultant Ninja: Future Demand Borrowing, Revisited and.

Consultant Ninja: Yes, this blog shall continue: Management.

Consultant Ninja: Resiliency, Panic, and Anxiety: Management.

Consultant Ninja: Thee Sunbeam method of Government Stimulus.

Consultant Ninja: Engineers as Rock Stars: Management Consulting.

Consultant Ninja: "It Flies": Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja: The Math of Jefferson County, Alabama's Sewer.

Consultant Ninja: Gotta Keep Dry During Typhoon Morakot.

Consultant Ninja: A Veritable Gold Mine. Gold I tell you.

Career Security in a Recession

To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

How to Evaluate Your Marketing Team

Consultant Ninja: New Word: Drecession: Management Consulting.

Defense, then Offense

Show report: CX and EX inextricably linked, with empathy as the glue

Do You Have an Aligned Risk Culture?

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