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Herb Kelleher's Legacy at Southwest Airlines: 5 Important Lessons

Michael Roberto

Source: Southwest Airlines Yesterday, Southwest Airlines co-founder and long-time CEO Herb Kelleher died at age 87. The company delivered strong profits, satisfied its customers, and kept its employees engaged and productive. At Southwest, Kelleher chose to run an airline in a very different manner. Think systemically.

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Four Mind-Bending Business Models to Shake Up 2016

Leapfrogging

But perhaps the greatest innovations in business won’t be what companies decide to sell, but how they’ll go to market in ways that create entirely new business models. It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. 2016 will see things go further.

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Four Mind-Bending Business Models to Shake Up 2016

Leapfrogging

But perhaps the greatest innovations in business won’t be what companies decide to sell, but how they’ll go to market in ways that create entirely new business models. It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. 2016 will see things go further.

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Cutting Complexity with Lisa Bodell of Futurethink

InnovationManagement

In this episode, Lisa and Mark reconvene to share more essential tools for leaders and teams to simplify their work environment from her second book, Why Simple Wins , they explore insights into how companies like SAP, Southwest Airlines and Syngenta are putting simplification principles into action.

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Coopetition

CREATORS

the similar pursuit of collaboration and competition between firms producing or developing complementary or related products. The motivation to engage in coopetition can vary: Competitors may aim to increase the size of the current market, create a whole new market, become more efficient or improve their competitive position.

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What is Digital Transformation in Business and Why is it Important?

Moves the Needle

Digital Transformation (also known as “DX”) is the phenomenon that virtually all companies are incorporating digital technology at some level. The digitization might be specific internal processes, tools, or operational components, or can refer to a complete revamp of a company’s products and services. The term is not new.

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Collaboration in the Time of the Coronavirus: How to Innovate Effectively During a Crisis

Qmarkets

Although we are inevitably seeing the cancellation of business gatherings and events, along with increasingly severe “social distancing” restrictions concerning movement and the sharing of public spaces, this doesn’t mean that innovation at your company needs to be stifled.