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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

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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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Figure 1 : Innovations from NASA will help the US meet its sustainable aviation goals. Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. per year over the same period. A critical decision point is coming.

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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. Manufacturing plants will still have human beings assembling products, even if they’re wearing personal protective equipment.

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Defense, then Offense

CaseInterview.com

The reason this occurs is that these two things happen in a recession: First, some opportunities get destroyed (think: airlines, hotels, restaurants). Sometimes, you get lucky because the market moves toward you. Think Zoom video conferencing; they grew from 10 million to 300 million meeting participants in five months.

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Manufacturing Companies Need to Sell Outcomes, Not Products

Harvard Business

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. A piece of machinery to meet a product need? But in an outcome-centric organization, marketers target individual customers. Becoming outcome-centric requires more than changes to marketing and sales, however. Insight Center.

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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

Few people are in the habit of looking for a gap in the market or trying to identify an unsatisfied need. Successful startups grow by building a product or service that meets the needs of customers. From airlines to banks we experience this all the time. “If it weren’t for these customers, we would be doing just fine!”.

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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

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.