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The Secret Sauce to a Superior Customer Experience

Rick Conlow

I travel often. Websites that are unresponsive or marketed products that are unavailable. Delta Airlines employees never seem to be happy. Furthermore, companies with awesome service have higher customer loyalty and financial success. A superior customer experience is rare. The poor examples outnumber the good.

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Sometimes “Small Data” Is Enough to Create Smart Products

Harvard Business

With the USPS facing harsh financial challenges in recent years, the impact of this automation is immeasurable. Another interesting example of small, high precision data being used to make big gains with AI can be found in the airline industry. However, when planes travel around the world, communication starts to breaks down.

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Minto Pyramid Principle

CaseInterview.com

Hypothesis 1.1.3 – We can introduce a new product. Hypothesis 1.2 – The financial analysis indicates a significant profit per year. Then we'd go to the travel department, book our airline tickets, and go get the data (at the client site, visiting our client's client to interview them, etc.).

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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

Harvard Business

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. See More Videos > See More Videos > All loyalty programs are vulnerable to a blockchain revolution, but the travel industry is perhaps the most at risk. The average U.S. Early adopters could benefit considerably.

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

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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.

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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business

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 Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business

This kind of competition often drives consolidation mergers, in which two firms combine their production and sales. Either way, these national firms compete differently from private firms in less regulated economies, because of the financial backing of the state and the protection granted by national industrial policies. competitors.

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