Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2013

Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement. In 2008, Booz separated its operations from the U.S. The Investment Division looks for situations where PIP can improve the performance of an organisation through both financial and operational assistance.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 15, 2014

Services include Strategy Development, Operational Improvement, and Transaction Support. Momentum’s vision is to become the leading independent consultancy in Australia providing the highest quality consulting services which integrate three key elements of organisational change: strategy, operations and people. Port Jackson Partners.

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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. No other occupation offers you an insight into corporate strategy or operations in such a short time. Having had a glimpse of this world, I decided to leave academia and apply to consulting firms.”

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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. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. Improved pricing.

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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.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

For many executives battling through economic headwinds in emerging markets, the answer tends to be wherever they think someone will provide the strongest boost to top-line growth, which usually means hiring an additional sales or marketing manager to support the commercial front lines. Somewhere else?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. This question has been top of mind lately among manufacturers aiming to drive profitable growth, triggering a fundamental shift to the way a business operates that increasingly focuses on outcomes. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

It can even involve immersing yourself in the stakeholder experience by going through it, e.g. the senior executives of an airline might travel at the back of the plane to get a feel for what economy passengers experience. For some managers, this seems initially like putting the cart before the horse. The reason? Be prepared to adjust.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2016

For example, in the hospitality industry most brands operate with the roles of host/guest. In the taxi and livery industry, cabs and limo services have operated with the roles of driver/passenger. ” In the airline industry, innovators have also redefined the brand roles. Airbnb has disrupted that model.

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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. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Another interesting example of small, high precision data being used to make big gains with AI can be found in the airline industry. In 2015, Boeing launched the Aerospace Data Analytics Lab in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to develop AI technology for airlines. How can you put these ideas to work for your company?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Disney has reinvented the customer experience by translating what it exclusively knows about park operations into software, substantively enhancing its customer value proposition. The software, called Personal Book , allows Nordstrom to promote sales, special appearances, and store events in a more targeted manner.

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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. of all retail sales. That said, Wall Street is on edge about brick-and-mortar’s future, so much so that even modest same-store sales declines are viewed as apocalyptic.

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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. When you think and operate in unique ways internally, you can produce the unique identity and image you desire externally.

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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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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

A retailer’s point of sale (POS) system falls into that category. With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Selecting project managers.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

This kind of competition often drives consolidation mergers, in which two firms combine their production and sales. The clearest example of this pattern is in airlines, where Star Alliance, Oneworld, and SkyTeam compete against each other as groups of allied firms.

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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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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The airline industry has experienced great volatility from deregulation, takeovers through mergers and acquisitions, and, as always, unpredictable forces of nature. ” Krolick also noted that a meaningful number of United Airlines employees are also pilots—these are super-superconsumers. Sales & Marketing Adapted from.

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LSA Global

MARCH 1, 2021

Examples of companies that compete on cost are Amazon, Walmart, Dollar Shave Club, McDonald’s, RyanAir (an Irish low-cost airline), IKEA, and Tock (a new restaurant reservation system developed during COVID-19). Buyers always like to get more for less whenever possible.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

To help these sellers get online quickly and address their objections to e-commerce, last year Amazon created Amazon Tatkal, a self-described “studio on wheels” that provides a suite of launch services, such as registration, imaging, cataloging, and sales training. But Amazon also had to adapt delivery and fulfillment. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

These products are typically not for sale, but they do go through a defined development process and provide clear business benefits. One airline paired its automation efforts with its customer service training so that agents could spend more time looking fliers in the eye and talking to them, and less time staring at a screen and typing.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

This entails identifying whether exposure to a certain promotion, ad, or specific touchpoint (such as a sales encounter) for a demographic can generate future sales. This can help increase short-term sales as well as build long-term brand loyalty. Mapping adds a new layer to this type of monitoring.

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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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2016

Some very well-known companies such as Whole Foods (founder John Mackey dedicates a whole chapter to love in his book Conscious Capitalism ) and Southwest Airlines (their NYSE ticker code is LUV) make explicit reference to love. Love is like an operating system. They let their actions, policies, products, and services do this instead.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

As a consultant, there is no better position to be in for sales conversations than that of the trusted advisor — a position that publishing your white paper helps you take. Knowing that your lead is interested in the topic of the white paper is critical information when coming up with your inbound sales outreach strategy.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2015

For us housewives, this is welcome news for our daily shopping,” said Anita Mueller, who was perusing sales on Banhofstrasse, Zurich’s main thoroughfare, on Monday morning. TUI Suisse, one of Switzerland’s biggest tour operators, cut prices by 15% on vacation packages to sunny destinations around Mediterranean Sea.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 24, 2016

Boeing, however, changed course and began building home furnishings and boats to counteract its lack of aviation sales. By adding airmail planes to its fleet, in addition to servicing the rapidly expanding market for commercial airlines, Boeing saw sustained post-war success.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2020

Over time, the executives get so engrossed in running the day to day operations of the business that they forget that the purpose of the business is to serve it’s customers. From airlines to banks we experience this all the time. You are not transparent or operate in bad faith. Shifting employee attitudes.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2020

Over time, the executives get so engrossed in running the day to day operations of the business that they forget that the purpose of the business is to serve it’s customers. From airlines to banks we experience this all the time. You are not transparent or operate in bad faith. Shifting employee attitudes.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

MARCH 18, 2013

Everyone knows consultants are driven by money, but most dont realize just how "coin operated" their firms can be. and sales effectiveness (seriously!) skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, March 18, 2013. They Have Money! Propose Something! Just like a cigarette machine, most consulting firms will happily devour your last dollar!

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

It includes full-fledged exits by corporations like Clorox , one of the first corporations to cease its operations in the market in 2014 (to later be seized by the Venezuelan government), and companies like Bridgestone and General Mills , which sold their Venezuela businesses to local industrial groups and private investors, respectively, in 2016.

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