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How could SouthWest Airlines spend A Billion Dollars for IT Modernisation

Rmukesh Gupta

One of the biggest news story this last Christmas season was the cascading effect of flights being cancelled by Southwest Airlines. According to their SEC filing, they had to cancel more than 16700 flights over the holiday period in December, costing them an estimated $725million-$825 million.

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Internal Branding Strategy – 3 Ways to Be Smarter than United Airlines

BrainZooming

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. 3 Ways Your Internal Branding Strategy Can Be Smarter than United Airlines.

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When Creative Destruction is the Right (or Wrong) Foundation for Innovation

New Markets Advisors

The term “creative destruction” was coined by famed economist Joseph Schumpeter in the 1940s. New technologies and new business models are fundamentally redefining entire industries. there are several contexts in which a plan based on the premise of creative destruction is usually worthy of consideration.

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Why Innovation Is Booming and Always Has Amid Crises

Stephen Shapiro

In 1977, after investing hundreds of millions of dollars in ATM technology research and development, Citibank decided to install machines across all of New York City. The technology was confusing to first-time users, the machines were not always accurate (they sometimes dispensed the wrong amount of money), and they were impersonal.

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The Role of Creativity in the Life of a Product Manager

Rmukesh Gupta

The Role of Creativity in the Life of a Product Manager by Mukesh Gupta. It was still a struggle trying to convince someone to invest in the technology and develop it into product. It takes an inventive mind or a creative one to recognise the opportunity that is disguised as a problem or a challenge.

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

The team calls itself a curiosity driven research group at Stanford, trying to invent novel technologies with clinical applications with a current focus on resource-poor settings. Sometimes, people find solace in boundaries to focus and find inspiration for creative ideas. “I Have you heard of the “Prakash Lab”? And you might agree.

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Start-to-Finish Guide to Planning Virtual Team Retreats

CMOE

Collaboration technology like virtual whiteboards, sticky notes, polls, and surveys. With most Virtual Team Retreats the most crucial logistical concerns are related to technology. If you are the retreat leader or working with a facilitator, rehearse key elements of the agenda and the technology. Manage Logistics.