Consultant Ninja

JULY 27, 2009

I fail to see the logic that the government will be more efficient at building operational structures than the private sector. No need to worry about supply side; a free market consisting of only young, healthy, rich people basically runs itself. Question: In the Obama plan, which one of these three cost drivers is getting reversed?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

Some of these recent deals were too rich or too clever for their own good, and others pushed industry consolidation one bridge too far. And, crucially, the DOJ did not see benefits to the concentration — no countervailing pro-competitive or efficiency effects that might have tilted the balance in favor of approval.

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Guidelines Airlines Industry Company 30

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

It can be argued that in many industries substantial numbers of digital applications — for example, online channel to customers and ERP systems — have become so pervasive that they have become mandatory for survival in the industry. The organization currently depends on these investments for success.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2013

When a good like this (and it might be a service as well) comes to market, it sometimes transcends the value equation and enters a new realm, one of scarcity and social proof. The fact that others believe a good is overpriced is precisely why a certain segment of the market chooses to purchase it.

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B2B Airlines McKinsey Travel 50

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

And that’s not just social media accounts; it’s bank accounts, retailer gift card accounts with cash and credit cards attached, airline loyalty accounts with years of accumulated frequent flyer points, and other accounts with real value. A similar problem exists with phishing.

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Data ROI System Education 31

freshminds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Customer comments are also helpful for retailers themselves to understand their market better – fashion chain Zara for instance has been tweaking products in response to customer reviews by sending the comments straight to the manufacturer. Payment Apps. Optimising the in store experience. Social media incentives.

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Retail Comparison Sales Media 40

Prudent Pedal

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In my last post, How to Evaluate Your Marketing Leader , I laid out a rubric for managing partners to assess the performance of their marketing leaders. My approach delineated between my two schools of marketing thought in the professional services world–the Productivity School and the Growth School. Be a leader.

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Marketing How To Airlines Productivity 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Similar failures among cockpit crews can lead to airline crashes. In the pharmaceutical industry, the conflict surrounding a clinical trial design, for example, represents a value inflection point where managed or mismanaged conflict will yield disproportionate value creation or destruction.

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Productivity Survey Resources Training 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. These are the seven areas: 1.

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Education Enterprise Productivity Examples 28

Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

All businesses, regardless of industry, have become what I call O2O businesses—their primary marketing objectives are focused on driving people online to drive them offline. Jon Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing. ? ?. Partnership Marketing. Outbound Phone Marketing. Email Marketing. Partnership Marketing.

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Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68

Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

American Airlines, our worst possible domestic airline, always does best in routes where travelers don''t have a choice. If you have a system, a point of view and a process for growth, then a market that already exists is your friend, the next place you can grow. Most companies (and non-profits) fear competition.

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Airlines Travel Efficiency System 46

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Software doesn’t simply make existing products smarter or existing processes more efficient; it enables new models of delivery, engagement, and innovation that are far more productive and informative than the old. Today, Delta has industry-leading operations in metrics such as on-time arrivals, flight cancellations, and lost bags.

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Software Company Intellectual Property Airlines 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

The pervasive adoption of mobile devices has driven an explosion of contextual user information, including geolocation data, which has become a valuable resource for marketers. However, a lack of technical skill sets among marketers has made it difficult for them to use this data (when they have access to it) effectively.

Data 28

Data Media Guidelines Travel 28

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Building models with web search data as one of the inputs reduces mean absolute forecast error, a standard measure of prediction accuracy, for monthly national sales predictions on the order of 40% from baseline for auto makes with relatively small market shares, compared to traditional time-series models. Improved pricing.

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Data Advertising Operations Case Study 49

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Sales and marketing were once disciplines ruled by emotions. After all, innovation, like marketing and sales, is a pipeline. Some companies use this software for process innovation; others develop new products; others seek efficiencies and cost savings. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. In one end go raw concepts and notions.

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Data Airlines System Sales 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The efficiencies of online business have continued to fell the old giants of retailing. The remix of this sector, too, started early on, with automotive and airline mergers in the late 1990s and then again around the great recession. How we make things. Who owns whose assets. The global remix is not new at all.

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Healthcare Automotive Chemicals Retail 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. If your culture and brand are mismatched, you can end up with happy, productive employees who produce the wrong results.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2010

We also provender the cheapest prices on the market. url=[link] NY[/url] In the last few years, the entire US industry has seen a drastic change - change that has represented more of growth. Do you think the best way to get the cheapest plane tickets is by calling the airline? Understand how prices are set by airlines!

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Consulting Airlines Hotels Sales 40

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. For some, it’s about the commercial opportunity to appeal to a new or growing market of rights-focused consumers.

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Energy Chemicals Banking Financial 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

On increasing industry concentration, and whether that suggests a decline in competition: We’re not really interested in concentration for his own sake. We use market concentration as a proxy or a signal about whether a market is competitive. The poster child for this was airline regulation.

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Policies Airlines Industry Efficiency 28