The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Yet it isn’t the tech that disrupts, it’s socio-economic change that creates conditions that a technology can exploit. Although a wide range, it suggests that airlines and hotels will have to appeal to leisure travelers to fill seats and beds. Tech isn’t the catalyst , but it can be the beneficiary.

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. Corporate IT costs will rise.

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. Nor should they on a technology utility. Their success is measured in revenue and yield.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

As Steve Jobs wisely said, Don’t Be Trapped by Dogma – Which is Living With the Results of Other People’s Thinking In my view, technology executives and engineering leaders are overly obsessed with the Spotify model. Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies. And there lies the problem.

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

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It needs to be developed, and developing it requires a capability in technology (design, coding, testing, etc.) New technologies disrupt by creating new behaviours and expectations among its users. A company investigating a disruptive technology for its potential doesn't have to own the means by which it does that investigation.

Social Media 40

Social Media Entertainment Airlines Technology 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2024

airlines stand to lose passenger volume on short haul flights to autonomous vehicles available through transportation-as-a-service. The technology is more complex, the liability (for passenger, pedestrian and property) is greater, and the business models that exploit it are as yet unknown and unproven.

Transportation 40

Transportation Airlines Strategy Design 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018.

AWS 107

AWS Airlines Latency Games 107

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The key technologies have changed. as GE famously expanded from selling nuclear power plant technology to servicing nuclear power plants in the 1980s). It’s growth by girth, not by invention, innovation or creativity. The socio-economic factors have changed. The regulatory environment has changed. The supply chain has changed.

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.). The operating company is, though.

Airlines 40

Airlines Entertainment Retail Engineering 40