LSA Global

AUGUST 20, 2018

The founder of Southwest Airlines, Herb Kelleher, said it best: “Everything [in our strategy] our competitors could copy tomorrow. Will your business thrive with tight structures or flexible guidelines, emphasis on low costs or high quality, predictable products or innovation? But they can’t copy the culture—and they know it.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

Each presents distinct opportunities for profit and competitive advantage, from product improvements to new revenue streams to possible industry game changers. Innovate products, services, and processes. Use data to uncover hidden insights, and use those insights to create or improve products, services, and processes.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2018

They don’t want to spend the resources to expose their decision-makers and creators to the people who actually use the product or service, so they build a moat around them. If they had talent, they’d make you go away without actually being upset. All they seek to learn is, “how cheap can we mollify customers?”

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

At MyEdu, we had developed a college student profile product, and Blackboard – one of the largest educational software companies in the world – purchased our company to supplement their existing product portfolio with this rich new capability. It might be to buy talent. I was at a startup that got acquired.

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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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Harvard Business

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. Airline JetBlue has turned its Twitter account into a highly responsive, 24/7 customer service line. They begin with different values, invest in different assets, and choose different leaders.

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Management Consulted

JULY 5, 2015

However, one of the most unnerving things about strategic consulting is that you’re supposed to be able to increase productivity across this very same landscape without respect to the size, type, and complexity of the client. Whether it’s Betty Billionaire or Sammy Startup, you’re there to add value.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

The first use case involves predicting demand for consumer products that are in the “long tail” of consumption. This method works well for popular products in large regions but tends to fail when data gets thin because random noise overwhelms the underlying signal. Predicting demand.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. “The learning curve in any industry is steep, but it is particularly so in the airline industry. .

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Consultant Ninja

MAY 4, 2009

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2018

So we can expect that, in addition to formal mergers and acquisitions, the M&A of the future will consist of a potpourri of joint ventures, minority investments, alliances and incubator-type investments—anything that helps keep the relevant people on board and productive—which sounds very similar to Rockefeller’s strategy.

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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. This statistic is alarming, but in fact it significantly understates the scope of the threat.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on. He said while his successor had considerable talents, he failed to conform to these social rules. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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Henman Performance Executive

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A well-conceived change effort, therefore, needs to protect core principles, the enduring character of an organization—the consistent identity that transcends trends, technology, product line, or services. The Pony Express did not become the railroad, and the railroad did not become the airlines. Talent Management. Teambuilding.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function. We love it!

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

One global technology company my team works with, for example, discovered that, on average, its sales employees didn’t understand or know about 22% of its product features, even though they believed they did. Unconscious incompetence can be found at every function, discipline, and level in organizations.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

That is because, ultimately, competitive advantage comes from people, rather than products or patents. ” However, we’ve all too often witnessed these intentions morph into “the war for talent” and the proclamation to “hire the best people fast” (as these telling examples of Yahoo and Netscape testify).

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Software, sensors, and analytics are shifting value creation from stand-alone products to combinations of products and services. “Inside AT&T’s Talent Overhaul” 5. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

They are incredibly strategic, looking 20 to 30 years ahead, to understand how society is evolving, how they can shape it, and how they can get the talent to do this. ” Talent is drawn to them, to help them achieve their purpose. But they don’t just wait for talent to turn up. Disruptive experts.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. Others want to attract and retain diverse talent. IKEA is expanding its circular offerings like reselling used furniture and creating new products from leftover textiles. Then came 2016.

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