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The answer is: 10 years to change a culture

Jeffrey Phillips

Many of us who work in the consulting and strategy space often talk about the difficulties in understanding and more importantly, changing a corporate culture. That is, we want the culture to adapt to market needs and changes that everyone can see but inertia keeps the company from making.

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Branding Strategies – A Scary Mistake for Southwest Airlines

BrainZooming

I’m not sure where to start with the brand experience problems for Southwest Airlines in this picture. When it comes to bad decisions about branding strategies, this scary mistake is all tricks and no treats. The entire Southwest Airlines ticketing area was decorated for Halloween. Extending Branding Strategies Too Far.

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Future-Centered Design: How to Turn Great Ideas into Action Plans

Daniel Burrus

As a matter of fact, some of the most transformative ideas that have gone on to change the world have been from a lower- to mid-level employee. Most likely, at first the answer will be no, but you can change that! Great ideas do not always come from the top down.

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When Software Can’t Change the Laws of Physics (or Leadership)

Mills-Scofield

There have been major 737 design upgrades and changes over the years; it is usually easier to do variations on a theme in terms of design, testing, certification, regulatory approvals, etc. And certainly, proactively notifying airlines and pilots that new training was required should have been a no-brainer. then create new.

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Strategy to Execution to enable Intelligent Enterprise

Rmukesh Gupta

All organisation have a stated strategy – one that they would like to execute on. However, most organisations are not able to execute the stated strategy, which leads to the organisation not being able to live up to its potential and deliver what they promise to their stakeholders. So, where do things go wrong? .

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Change Your Thinking, Improve Your Results

Daniel Burrus

Change Your Thinking and you will Change your Results. Just ask Delta Airlines , the British bank Tesco or any other company whose legacy software caused breakdowns and data breaches. Like legacy technology, legacy thinking refers to thinking, strategies and other actions that, in their own way, are outdated.

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Strong Airline Profitability? Is it Really About Fees?

Michael Roberto

Source: Dallas News For decades, the airline industry has been characterized by abysmal profits. The list of airline bankruptcies is seemingly endless. airline industry profitability is very strong at the moment - "healthier than ever" according to the headline. airlines averaged $19.65 airlines averaged $19.65