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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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Best Project Management and Tracking Tools

IdeaScale

With project management tools, you’ll have a software to start tracking your favorite ideas and prioritize the ones you love. When your company is working on multiple projects at the same time, it’s difficult to focus on the details. Many of these softwares can also calculate the time and money spent on each project.

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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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Basic or Luxury? Getting Your Value Proposition Right – Business Model Inspiration #4

whataventure

Get inspired by Jumeirah’s or Singapore Airlines’ luxurious solutions, and decide for yourself. Clever manages to offer products at a low price by not placing importance on the brand itself and the values related to it, thereby reducing, e.g., design and marketing costs. Singapore Airlines. Affordability.

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Smisek’s United Ouster – Were You Really Surprised?

Adam Hartung

Smisek organized the merger of Continental (his former employer) with United, creating the world’s largest airline at the time, things have not gone well. Since announcing the merger in 2010, more has gone wrong than right at United: Computer glitches have hounded the airline. ” Sounds like a lot more internal focus.

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

They talk about Zappos, Southwest Airlines, and Aravind Eye Hospitals to drive home the point about turning a constraint, such as resource, time, and method, into a winning opportunity. Good judgment and experience will come into play when you have conflicting constraints threatening to derail a project. Well, some do.

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Robotic Process Automation: what changes with the automation process

mjvinnovation

The best option is to start with a project and learn from the process. For example, companies like airlines employ thousands of customer service agents, but customers are still waiting in line. This is often overlooked by companies hiring foreign aid to run the project – and may prove to be a serious mistake. .

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