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JetBlue Acquires Spirit Airlines: Will Straddling Work?

Michael Roberto

Source: Getty Images The bidding war for Spirit Airlines has ended. Today, we learn that JetBlue has completed the deal at a price of $3.8 The combined airline will have 458 planes—up from JetBlue’s fleet of just over 280 jets now—and will have over 300 more on order. JetBlue and Frontier both sought to acquire Spirit.

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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. What can we learn from Kelleher’s leadership at Southwest? Here are five simple, yet powerful, lessons that come to mind as I reflect on the Kelleher era at the airline: Make tradeoffs. Think systemically.

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The implementation of the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework?

Paul Hobcraft

Emphasize the importance of staying competitive in a rapidly evolving business landscape and the potential risks of falling behind. Ecosystem design is becoming organizations’ “go-to” solution to accelerate their competitiveness. Showcase success stories and case studies : As you learn you can justify.

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Four Mind-Bending Business Models to Shake Up 2016

Leapfrogging

It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. Sharing internal processes, employee programs, and other organizational best practices are rapidly becoming strategies for creating external competitive differentiation. . 2016 will see things go further.

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Four Mind-Bending Business Models to Shake Up 2016

Leapfrogging

It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. Sharing internal processes, employee programs, and other organizational best practices are rapidly becoming strategies for creating external competitive differentiation. . 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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The Hard-to-Abate sectors need innovation solutions to reach Net-Zero Co2 Emissions

Paul Hobcraft

There is a myth In the sectors that are termed hard-to-abate industries such as petrochemicals, cement, steel, trucking, airlines, and shipping it is not possible to find non-fossil alternatives, and demand keeps rising. Then what is hard-to-abate mean when it comes to difficult sectors of the economy?