All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers. The airline has also been able to scale quickly to cope with spikes in seasonal traffic, cutting application latency and improving the overall customer experience. flights, allowing the airline to expand twelvefold to cope with the spike in traffic that it experienced at the time.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating new behaviours is more disruptive than being the first to apply technologies established in one market segment into another: streaming video to personal technology on airplanes is interesting, and doubtless it will allow airlines to eliminate in-seat entertainment systems that add weight and burn jet fuel, but it brings established behaviours into a different context. Innovation Strategic IT

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Need to free up a few hours a week to focus on innovation and spend less time interpreting data and troubleshooting? ” — Alfredo Obaldia , IT Operations Manager, Copa Airlines. Dynatrace news. Are you looking to scale your team but don’t have the budget?

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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. Treating them as utilities relegates them to being costs, starving them for investment and suppressing the innovative punch they should pack.

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ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 28, 2021

Widely used to track ecommerce shopping carts, financial transactions, airline flights and much more, in-memory computing can quickly store, retrieve, and analyze large volumes of live data.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Not to mention, the acceleration of innovation - a WSJ article recently cited a McKinsey study that had suggested 10 years of innovation was compressed into a 3 month window - has created opportunities that were not practical just a year ago.

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Smashing Magazine Graphics

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.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Some of the Middle East's most established enterprises, such as Actel, Al Tayer Group, Batelco, flydubai, Hassan Allam, Middle East Broadcasting Center, Silah Gulf, Souq.com, Union Insurance, United Arab Shipping Company, and many others, are using AWS to drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time-to-market. One story from the Middle East I particularly like is flydubai, the leading low-cost airline in the region.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

We know that innovative technologies always take off whenever barriers to entry fall for market participants. In particular small and medium-sized companies with innovative strength can benefit. Airlines or rail transport companies could also use this for their quality control by running an algorithm based on the image data of the freight; the algorithm would recognize damaged goods and automatically sort them out.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Airline crew pairing and composition problem is an area of deep research. For instance, if one of the pilots get sick, the airline still has to run flight by allowing a replacement pilot to take over. I also have a strong feeling that long-lived teams are not good for innovation and disruption. When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e.

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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). As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies.

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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.). The predictability and stability demanded by debt service obligations don't give rise to innovation and disruption; they create stagnation and sclerosis.

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