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It’s High Time Airlines Got Personal

BCG

Airlines need to get personal with their customers. Thanks to digital innovators such as Amazon and Netflix—not to mention travel industry disruptors such as Uber and Air-bnb—consumers’ expectations are on the rise. If other companies can offer a customized experience, why can’t a hotel or an airline?

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5 Questions to Stress Test Your Unique Value Proposition

LSA Global

Niches include: specific industries, market segments, geographic areas, buyer roles, degrees of complexity, types of approach, client challenges, amounts of risk, size of companies, levels of importance, meaningful causes, or packaging/bundling of solutions. When Should You Stress Test Your Unique Value Proposition?

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The Barriers to Recruiting and Employing Digital Talent

Harvard Business

But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms , especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think pulp and paper, steel, airlines) and which are often located away from the metropolitan areas where data scientists live. And they can create a lot of value by generating new business.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

I begged my favorite Econ teacher to let me into his Industrial Organization course and fortunately I got a spot. Half of the class was devoted to examining different models and learning the game theory behind strategic decision making; in the remainder of the class, we applied that knowledge and analyzed different industries.

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Data From 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works

Harvard Business

What if we applied the same thinking to innovation? What if we applied the same thinking to innovation? After all, innovation, like marketing and sales, is a pipeline. The innovation teams at these companies use them to track and process all the ideas and whether the company committed to putting them into practice.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business

The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. So let’s focus on these two first, and then run quickly through seven other interesting stories. The early signs from the Trump team are not promising, in my view.

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