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Consolidation in Europe’s Airline Industry

BCG

Over the past 15 years, Europe’s full-service airlines have flown through turbulent skies as they generally failed to adapt to an increasingly price-competitive short-haul market. The financial, regulatory, and political barriers to various strategic scenarios will determine the exact nature of each airline’s options.

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

Markovitz Consulting

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. The fundamental principles of good business transcend the effects of COVID-19, the shift to work from home, new technologies, and all the other changes we’re living with now.

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3 Ways to Get More Value from Automation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PWC’s Strategy&

Harvard Business

Yet it also gives you an agile way to work: you don’t waste time or dollars when there are no results, and you develop a fast-fail mentality to learn what works and what doesn’t. Now, companies invest in ways that support a smaller, more agile approach so they can adjust as they find out what works.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

For instance, recall the global system-wide outage that struck Delta Airlines in August, 2016 resulting in the unprecedented grounding of all flights. While most firms associate the consequential costs of these types of events as their risk, EvD is a subtler figure, which is revealed in persistent loss scenarios.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business

If it would have an immediate business impact, such as the impact that an airline’s loss of its reservation systems would have, then it is likely to be a key operational investment. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments. Development approaches.

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