Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For example, security concerns and unreliability becoming commonplace, like the recent Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis caused by a decades-old scheduling system. Architecture modernization initiatives aim to convert aging architecture into modern architecture, applying the latest tech innovations and architectural patterns.

Architecture 97

Architecture Innovation Airlines Technology 97

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. Its two core competencies are speed and scalability.

Logistics 84

Logistics Airlines Ecommerce Scalability 84

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. No surprise that the analyses range from the very narrow to the very broad.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail C++ Transportation 52

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

As a result, the race to improve digital capabilities for small merchants is now on, so there is reason to expect that considerably more innovation will be accessible to small merchants on a metered rather than a R&D basis. Airlines and large industrial firms are national champions and governments have a history of rescuing their champions.

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Hardware Technology 52

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

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.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

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 Airlines 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2024

E.g., airlines stand to lose passenger volume on short haul flights to autonomous vehicles available through transportation-as-a-service. Autonomy is a much different opportunity. A bet on autonomy is a bet on the belief that autonomy brings entirely new and different use cases into the transportation sector.

Transportation 40

Transportation Airlines Strategy Design 40

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

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 Technology 40

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.

AWS 107

AWS Airlines Latency Games 107

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It’s growth by girth, not by invention, innovation or creativity. The intermediate-term success of this strategy is a return to modest growth and sufficient cash flows to make its interest payments and modest - if only occasional - dividends. - requires both a capacity for innovation and a growth market.

Innovation 40

Innovation Airlines Strategy Technology 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 Engineering 40