Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2023

It has come to be known as product-market fit. After lack of funding, failure to achieve product-market fit is the most common reason that startups fail. Thus, achieving product-market fit should be a top priority for any founder looking to achieve long-term success. What problems do customers actually have?

Productivity 78

Productivity Marketing Airlines Hotels 78

Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Hes absolutely hammered the sales and marketing division of a particular CPG all week, calling ex and current employees in his quest to dig up the competitive intelligence information the engagement manager has asked him to collect. [Scene: Open workspace at the firms* office.] Timmy calls Bob Johnson, his manager. Consulting. (88).

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

United Airlines has leapt into a brand disaster of mythic proportions. The company’s stock lost hundreds of millions of market cap , but the damage to the brand (and future sales) may be far higher. United (and its airline peers) had better wake up fast to this new reality as well. Three themes seem critical.

Airlines 133

Airlines Video Operations Policies 133

Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Timmys search for competitive intelligence on a CPG competitor to the client has been found out, and his ear was chewed out over the phone by the VP of the target firms sales & marketing organization. Timmy did the only thing he could do; refer him to his engagement manager. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Consulting. (88).

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Bain 100

Consultant Ninja

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Youll hear more about this over the month or two, as November/December closed sales are published as being way down. Source: NWMLS: Tax Credit Boosts November Closed Sales as Pending Sales Drop Through the Floor. Source: NWMLS: Tax Credit Boosts November Closed Sales as Pending Sales Drop Through the Floor.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Management Airlines 100

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Aggregated total sales is a poor proxy because firms need to distribute inventory geographically, necessitating hyperlocal forecasts. The traditional way of solving this problem is using time-series econometrics with historical sales data. Improved pricing. Predictive maintenance.

Data 132

Data Advertising Operations Case Studies 132

Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

In front of him is a pile of resumes, culled off of monster.com, of people who currently or recently worked at a particular division of a major CPG company, on behalf of the client, another competing CPG company in the same market. His goal; to ferret out their trade spend as a % of sales and their sales organizational structure.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Resumes Airlines 100

Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of Hamilton , unabashedly explained that he has a fiduciary responsibility to investors to boost prices since the market has demonstrated that tickets were underpriced. Advertising like “we’ve dropped our previously bloated fixed prices” to boost sales can taint Hamilton ’s brand.

Airlines 113

Airlines Hotels Sports Advertising 113

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retailers such as ALDI and Walmart have used price to position themselves against traditional competitors in their markets, pinching margins all around. Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. and Europe. Improving perception.

Retail 132

Retail Survey Bain Comparison 132

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

If consumers start turning regularly to smart speakers for their travel needs, they could end up interacting less and less with traditional airline, hotel, and even online travel agency brands. They also may provide airlines, hotel chains, and rental car companies more clout when setting up smart-speaker partnerships.

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Travel Industry Hotels Airlines 109

Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others. Provides access to experts or mentorship.

Construction 117

Construction Airlines Data Travel 117

MishTalk

AUGUST 5, 2014

The sanctions retaliation game took another big leap forward today with the EU in the spotlight: Moscow May Force European Airlines to Fly Around Russia. At the height of the Cold War, most Western airlines were barred from flying through Russian airspace to Asian cities, and instead had to operate via the Gulf or the U.S.

Airlines 75

Airlines Tourism Transportation Operations 75

1 to 1

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Whether it''s the airlines embracing mobile to assist customers, a bad-boy company promising to make over its service standards, or the launch of new technology that will change how consumers pay for everyday retail goods, these 10 customer experience incidents will change the course of how organizations deliver customer experiences.

Airlines 55

Airlines Retail Media Sales 55

Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

However, due to its rich history in the region, the firm knows the market deeper, better, and has the best government and private sector relationships. Aon entered the Middle East market in 1985. The firm has 25 regional partners and 2600+ employees from 35 different nationalities working in the Middle East, pulling in $1.3B

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Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Real Estate 160

Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. per year over the same period.

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Trends Engineering Travel Airlines 89

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2016

We can still see the “brand as object” model in the American Marketing Association’s definition : “Name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller’s good or service as distinct from those of other sellers.” Marketers have an opportunity to redefine brand roles in every industry.

Airlines 70

Airlines Industry Operations Sales 70

Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2017

Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. Is anyone responsible for ensuring these projects don’t fall through the cracks, or drop to the bottom of the sales force’s priority list?

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Survey Groups Energy Research 131

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. For instance, in a traditional, customer-centric organization, marketers identify customer segments across multiple dimensions, then define solutions (a mix of products and services) to meet each segment’s needs. What are you really looking for?

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Productivity Company Engineering Sales 70

CaseInterview.com

APRIL 1, 2020

Now, let me elaborate on why, despite coronavirus, a drastic drop in many consumer sectors, and stock market values plummeting, I don’t think we will have another Great Depression. In the case of the Great Depression, Black Monday 1987, and the Great Recession of 2008, the assets in question were stock market prices.

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Banking Insurance Insurance System 119

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Sales and marketing were once disciplines ruled by emotions. After all, innovation, like marketing and sales, is a pipeline. With the right technology, could you manage this pipeline the way you manage a sales pipeline? Now the inspections takes 15% as much time as they used to, and the airlines are a lot happier.

Data 71

Data Airlines System Sales 71

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

Traditionally, antitrust regulation has looked for whether a merger increased or decreased competition in a particular market. In the case of Baker Hughes and Halliburton’s planned merger a few years ago, the Justice Department detailed how it thought the amount of competition would rise or fall (mostly fall) in 30 market segments.

Company 72

Company Airlines Industry Groups 72

Tom Spencer

JULY 6, 2014

However, where one or more of the forces exerts strong pressure on industry profitability, such as in the airline industry, few firms ever do well for very long. For example, Coca-Cola is a leader in the soft drink industry and could, if it wanted to, encourage the production and sale of generic unbranded soft drinks. Cost Leadership.

Strategy& 88

Strategy& Strategy Strategy Industry 88

CaseInterview.com

JUNE 1, 2020

The reason this occurs is that these two things happen in a recession: First, some opportunities get destroyed (think: airlines, hotels, restaurants). Sometimes, you get lucky because the market moves toward you. Other times, you have to find where the market has shifted toward. economic history. This is playing “defense.”.

Case Interview 69

Case Interview Hotels Interviews Marketing 69

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In 1992, to free-up warehouse space, the UK team promised free airline tickets to customers who purchased more than £100 worth of its products. marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. customers in order to boost sales. A famous example is Hoover’s free flights promotion. A little later, the U.S.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

Southwest Airlines: Southwest Airlines is known for its strong commitment to servant leadership. As a result, the airline has consistently ranked high in customer satisfaction and employee engagement. The company’s founder, Herb Kelleher, believed that putting employees first was the key to success.

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Leadership Training Training Airlines 112

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. The airline industry has experienced great volatility from deregulation, takeovers through mergers and acquisitions, and, as always, unpredictable forces of nature. “The learning curve in any industry is steep, but it is particularly so in the airline industry. .

Energy 70

Energy Airlines Culture Retail 70

Rick Conlow

MARCH 22, 2023

Websites that are unresponsive or marketed products that are unavailable. Delta Airlines employees never seem to be happy. Research shows us that the top service companies have higher sales growth and profits over time. Automated chat services that cannot help and overall slow responses. They are like robots doing their jobs.

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Survey Bain Training Training 98

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. market for latex condoms. Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. My group chose to examine the U.S.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, same-store sales or sales per square foot measure success in the retail industry, and various volume measures do it in commodity industries. In a future dominated by autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing schemes, a typical family might decide to own fewer cars or none at all — meaning lower unit sales, all else equal.

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Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 70

Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2013

Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement. Additional areas of expertise include new financial services channels, technologies and markets, retail financial services, and e-business. Booz & Company. Website: booz.com. Consulting. Website: lek.com.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2017

declines in comparable store sales in November and December, resulting in 10% and 15% stock price drops, respectively. A one-price-fits-all-channels mandate can result in a disadvantage in one market. of all retail sales. Well, the news for retailers keeps getting worse. Macy’s and Kohl’s both reported 2.1%

Retail 70

Retail Sales Airlines Operations 70

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

When Amazon decided to enter the Indian e-commerce market, it was clear from the outset that something would have to give. A decade into the new millennium, India, with its billion-plus people and largely untapped e-commerce market, beckoned. And store owners report increased sales of their own while customers are on-site.

Retail 70

Retail Productivity Accenture Transportation 70

1 to 1

MAY 7, 2013

Marketing Research Articles. Sales Effectiveness. Mobile Marketing. Sales Effectiveness. Marketing by Permission! Marketing Blog. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. I look to 1to1 Media and its partners as a trusted source of information on integrated marketing trends. Back towww.1to1media.com.

Media 51

Media Airlines Case Interview Trends 51

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

For instance, Nordstrom further enhanced its vaunted customer service by investing in a new point-of-sale system that integrated with their customer database, providing salespeople with information such as purchase histories and interests. When modular in design, they adapt easily for different markets and can evolve over time.

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Software Company Intellectual Property Airlines 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does.

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Culture Company Cash Flow Operations 71

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Or, as an airline CEO reflected in a recent conversation with us, “In any company I’ve been in, there haven’t been very many people who are capable of standing back and making the complicated things very simple. “My sales force are the heroes of my business,” the CEO of one consumer goods company told us.

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Sales Energy Company Strategy& 70

Tom Spencer

MAY 15, 2014

Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement. Additional areas of expertise include new financial services channels, technologies and markets, retail financial services, and e-business. The Birchman Group. Website: thebirchmangroup.com. Frost & Sullivan.

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