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

Daniel Burrus

Southwest Airlines has a notable history with both intrapreneurship and solving both internal and external company pain points creatively. But at Southwest Airlines, an internal employee named Marty Cobbs decided to take passengers by surprise by livening up the safety instructions with humor.

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The implementation of the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework?

Paul Hobcraft

So how to set about making this change and who should be involved as it is a more radical design of a holistic nature is what I am outlining in this post. Here I will offer up some thoughts on how to make this change and who should be involved, as it is a more radical design of a holistic nature.

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Innovation Sighting: Adjustable Airline Seats

Innovation in Practice

From Fox News : The airline legroom wars may finally be coming to an end. Engineering firm B/E Aerospace has filed a patent for a “legroom adjustable” seat design that allows flight attendants to move a seat forward or back depending on the size of a passenger, reports the Telegraph.

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Building the innovation stack

Paul Hobcraft

These stacks follow an established logic, such as working through idea discovery, relating to given problems, exploring solutions, and determining the final model or design and the execution delivery to achieve this. Still, this becomes the end game in design We need to move back to describing innovation stacks a little more.

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Can AI Help Reframe Business Problems?

Stephen Shapiro

Work with airlines and other partners: Collaborate with airlines and other partners to find ways to improve the baggage handling process. Work with airlines and other partners: Collaborating with airlines and other partners to coordinate baggage handling procedures can also help to reduce wait times.

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

Mills-Scofield

We can’t design with atoms and ignore gravity, conservation of energy and Newton’s laws of motion. 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. Boeing 737 Max in production.

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Understanding the Building Blocks of Hospitality

Business and Tech

Jan Carlzon, ex-CEO of SAS Airlines, described each occasion when a guest interacts with the hotel or restaurant as “moments of truth.” At MSU, for example, we have world-class engineering, design, technology, and hospitality schools, so we can bring different pieces of knowledge together to provide the best solutions.

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