The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

A small merchant wanting to do more business digitally didn't have the balance sheet to finance development of digital capabilities, let alone drive consumer behavior change to use those capabilities. Airlines and large industrial firms are national champions and governments have a history of rescuing their champions.

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Hardware Technology 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Personally, I think – and this is clearly linked to the rise of AI and ML – that there has never been a better time than today to develop smart applications and use them. We know that innovative technologies always take off whenever barriers to entry fall for market participants. Because three things are coming together.

Artificial Intelligence 149

Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 149

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

That involves regularly pruning features rather than adding them, continuously exploring common expectations and frequent frustrations, adding value by innovating where customers are most frustrated and establishing exposure hours with customers for the entire team. The latter two haven’t been released yet. A must-read. A must-read.

Airlines 127

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 127

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Team performance model such as Tuckman's Team-Development Model (Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing) don't factor aspiration and career goals of individual team members. Airline crew pairing and composition problem is an area of deep research. Several reteaming models have been developed to support teams' fluidity.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation. Airlines are pursuing new revenue streams with captive in-flight technology.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

During the 1950's and 60's, companies also pursued conglomerate strategies: bringing seemingly unrelated businesses under one roof, sometimes seeking synergies (as Sears did owning a retail merchandiser and retail brokerage - "buy your stocks where you buy your socks"), and sometimes not (as LTV did owning a steel company and an airline).

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Logistics 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

Suppose that the operating company is in a firefight for market share, where the primary weapons are customer-facing technology (as is happening in retail, entertainment, and, to a lesser extent, airlines - all of which have capital intensive asset-cos side-by-side with cash generative op-cos.).

Airlines 40

Airlines Entertainment Retail Efficiency 40

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It needs to be developed, and developing it requires a capability in technology (design, coding, testing, etc.) Still, this is more disruptive than developing technologies that mimic existing functionality in the same segment: being late to the game with a "me, too" strategy does not generate much in the way of behaviour change.

Social Media 40

Social Media Entertainment Airlines Media 40