Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

So, how did one airline company disrupt the airline industry through a low-budget carrier? The Rise of Icelandic Travel in the United States: Iceland is anticipated to have more tourists than their entire population this year according to Vox. This is quite alarming.

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Michael Roberto

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Travelers in my area have been enjoying incredibly low fare trips to Europe on Norwegian Airlines. Have they replicated the Southwest and Ryanair low-cost operating models and applied it successfully to intercontinental travel? The Wall Street Journal has expressed skepticism about the airline in the past as well.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2021

Keeping Us Safe for Resuming Travel. We all have had imposed on us severe travel restrictions. Airlines are looking to encourage us back onto their planes. Using Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio, the need was to design and simulate air quality.

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BrainZooming

JULY 21, 2016

Summer travel is a fascinating study in how little people think about the ways their bodies AND their clothes will be stretched beyond normal limits. I was on a late Southwest Airlines flight where I think they decided to just not do any drink service because the flight attendants didn’t want to work.

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Michael Roberto

MARCH 26, 2018

Last week, my wife and I tried to book some flights on Southwest Airlines using credits we had for some cancelled flights from last year. We explained that we wanted to travel sooner than that, and we didn't understand why it would take a month to receive our own money. It did not take nearly that long.

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IdeaConnection

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Several airline passengers have a little more money in the bank thanks to an open innovation competition in Germany. Such was the success of the open innovation challenge that the airport is looking to launch future challenges to help improve passengers’ travel experiences.

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The Human Factor

JANUARY 16, 2019

When you travel on business, you must present yourself in a light of authority and success. Travelling in style is one thing, but travelling with purpose and power is another. When travel on business for a meeting, you are never to be thought of as the number two. Travel on your own time and whenever you feel like it.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 17, 2023

Ultimately this could lead to cheaper and greener air travel, as lower or non-existent fuel duties and greater plane capacities offer consumers an inexpensive way to travel longer distances. Helsinki’s Whim app has led the way since 2016, offering travelers both pay-per-ride and subscription payment options.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

From hockey formation based on how birds fly to the future of air travel. kg and 3-meter scale model of the futuristic airplane, developed by researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and partner Dutch airline KLM, to take the highly anticipated aircraft along its next developmental steps.”

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 20, 2019

Teixeira’s thinking closely matches what I’ve been exploring in my other articles on disruption across industries like packaging , manufacturing , safety , and travel. This time, it was the intermediaries– travel agents, industrial equipment distributors, and full-service stock brokers–that got disrupted.

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IdeaConnection

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

As part of its efforts to innovate and maintain a leading position in its market Singapore Airlines (SIA) is ramping up its open innovation endeavors. Settings its Sights on Being the World’s Leading Digital Airline. With the launch of our Digital Innovation Blueprint, we aim to be the leading digital airline in the world.”.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

They (and frankly a lot of the rest of us) are anxious to get out, go out to eat, to go to a ball game, get together with friends, travel and explore. As vaccines demonstrate their effectiveness, and travel bans are lifted, we may see an explosion in the consumer market.

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Michael Roberto

MARCH 5, 2018

News reports this morning indicate that United Airlines has announced a significant change to its employee compensation policies. United Airlines President Scott Kirby issued a memo to employees explaining the change. The company has eliminated quarterly employee bonuses amounting to roughly $1,200 per year.

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Phil McKinney

AUGUST 24, 2023

He has consistently challenged the status quo across various industries, pushing for electric vehicles and space travel, demonstrating the power of visionary thinking in reshaping industries and the world as we know it.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2021

Keeping Us Safe for Resuming Travel. We all have had imposed on us severe travel restrictions. Airlines are looking to encourage us back onto their planes. Using Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio, the need was to design and simulate air quality.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2021

Keeping Us Safe for Resuming Travel. We all have had imposed on us severe travel restrictions. Airlines are looking to encourage us back onto their planes. Using Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio, the need was to design and simulate air quality.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

JULY 11, 2020

It’s not practical to travel right now. Even if you could survive a plane ride with an airline that’s filling middle seats and ignoring social distancing protocols there’s still the issue of not having anything to do or anywhere to go once you get to your destination. Trump got his wall alright. Barbados gets it.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 17, 2023

Ultimately this could lead to cheaper and greener air travel, as lower or non-existent fuel duties and greater plane capacities offer consumers an inexpensive way to travel longer distances. Helsinki’s Whim app has led the way since 2016, offering travelers both pay-per-ride and subscription payment options.

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whataventure

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Get inspired by Jumeirah’s or Singapore Airlines’ luxurious solutions, and decide for yourself. Jumeirah Group’s hotels and resorts are regarded as among the most luxurious and innovative in the world and have won numerous international travel and tourism awards. Singapore Airlines. Affordability.

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Rmukesh Gupta

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The Situation : My job entails a lot of travel and that has resulted in me amassing a decent number of miles on an airlines frequent flier program. So, excitedly, I downloaded the app and was eagerly looking forward to my next trip on the airlines, which was coming up in the next couple of days. How can we help them with this?

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Innovation Leader

MARCH 4, 2015

Two members of the airline’s Customer Innovation R&D team discuss a recent test of a new system aimed at delivering a more personalized travel experience.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 19, 2020

A few more similarly accelerating technology Hard Trends that increase in-person trust are contact-less kiosks for self-service in retail stores, and hotel and airline check-in using facial recognition and/or voice and smartphone. When you lose trust, is it easy to get it back? A New Type of Customer Conversion.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MAY 11, 2020

So suffice it to say, like most people I absolutely can not wait to travel again. But truth be told I am actually more excited about the long-term future of traveling than I am about any one near-term trip I had planned. Now she can enjoy air travel again. Everyone can.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Here's a nice example of the Attribute Dependency Technique, one of five in the innovation method called Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT). It's a great tool to make products and services that are "smart." They adjust and learn, then adapt their performance to suit the needs of the user. Continue reading →

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For countless travelers, the term “smart airport” is an oxymoron. The technology failures that caused the widely publicized shutdowns of both Southwest and Delta Airlines in 2016 underscored the very real need to update aging IT infrastructure. Thanks to new technology, many other aspects of airline travel have definitely improved.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

What You Get Traveling. I just got A-List status on Southwest Airlines. First trip of the year, and I started getting a sore throat by the first morning. How did I not build up more immunity than THAT? A scratchy throat makes for a long week. I felt like Bill Belichick. Getting There, Here, and Yon. ” Okay, sure.

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Adam Hartung

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

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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New Markets Advisors

AUGUST 20, 2018

In the airline industry, for example, airlines may offer an array of options that includes Economy, Premium Economy, and First Class, among others. Airlines getting rid of First Class or Business Class tickets, for example, could alienate valuable business travelers who tend not to balk at higher price tags.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

Do you once in a while travel by plane? Many people who travel by plane can rather be frustrated to think of luggage belts and all the inconvenience they are bringing in their lives – imagine how much time it takes to wait for your suitcase – but Vanderlande makes much money with it. Take-away #7 You need a geek for great tech.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 13, 2020

But globalization, trade, interconnected airlines, access to education and travel means that what were once local outbreaks, easily controlled and perhaps quarantined, now spread exceptionally quickly.

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The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 4, 2017

Airlines, car manufacturers, and software companies are usually creating and capturing value in this way. Let´s see some examples of this business model: Ryanair, the European biggest low fare company, founded in 1985, is widely known among their customers for its aggressive pricing strategy, imitated by many other airlines.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 25, 2020

Walmart, Deutsche Bank, AT&T, Walgreens and American Express Global Business Travel are among the many companies that already have Robotic Process Automation strategies. American Express Global Business Travel uses RPA to automate the process of canceling an airline ticket and issuing refunds. Seek expert help.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 15, 2017

Conversely we can see why it is difficult to innovate in the airline industry. Even a very heavily regulated industry such as air travel has plenty of potential for innovation if only the participants would think beyond product innovation. When multiple factors are changing, disruption is easier to accept.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 11, 2014

They allow people to save address and payment information on ecommerce sites, airport and airline preferences on travel sites, and topical preferences on news sites. American Airlines provides a lot of functionality in its iPhone app for people who are not signed in. Accounts provide a lot of value for website visitors.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 30, 2016

One of the most prominent and heavily used applications that still rely on a robust command line interface is Sabre , the largest systems provider for airline bookings in North America. Why does a command line interface work so well in the case of airline reservations? Long before GUIs became mainstream, command lines were king.

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Adam Hartung

MARCH 13, 2016

The airline consistently ranks near the bottom in customer satisfaction, and on-time performance. Retired since 2004, is Mr. Bethune really in step with the needs of airline customers today? Does he really have a current understanding of how the best performing airlines keep customers happy while making money? However, Ms.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Robotic Process Automation: giants that already using this strategy and application: Walmart, Deutsche Bank, AT&T, Vanguard, Ernst & Young, Walgreens, Anthem and American Express Global Business Travel are among the many companies that already have Robotic Process Automation strategies. A chatbot, could help ease some of that wait. .

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