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Hi Fly: A Lean Airline Story

Melissa Perri

But on one trip back from London, I got a surprising test message. I had never heard of this HiFly airline before. HiFly is an airline for hire. Because their planes are unmarked, they can fly routes for all major airlines and private companies. It also greatly reduces the risk for starting new airlines.

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Webinar: How Southwest Airlines’ Agile Transformation Helped Them Adapt to Unpredictable Challenges

Agile Velocity

According to Airlines for America, U.S. passenger airlines incurred $35B in net losses in 2020 because of the pandemic. For the past few years, Southwest Airlines has been building Agile capabilities within their organization to adapt to any challenge thrown their way. Director, Technology at Southwest Airlines.

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Going from College to Product Manager

The Product Guy

At Hewitt, I was a Business Analyst on the TWA (Trans World Airlines) and Nalco Team. After re-prioritizing the backlog, I created a new process where at the end of each sprint, the team would present a demo, and we would test and close the JIRA tickets together.

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TEI 308: How innovators lead transformation – with Tendayi Viki, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Bring in aspects of entrepreneurs like innovation, confidence, testing assumptions, focusing on the market, and making sure you generate revenue, but don’t bring in aspects like ego, brashness, vanity, or overconfidence. Instead, make innovation a legitimate part of your company. People also try to avoid legal and compliance.

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The Top Mobile In-App Feedback Tools of 2022

Alchemer Mobile

We think we’re pretty great – and so do many leading enterprise brands such as CNN, WeatherBug , FanDuel , Capital One, JetBlue, Dunkin’, Zillow, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Safeway, Alaska Airlines, and more. Apptentive allows companies to measure shifts in customer emotion and gather actionable feedback across their mobile customer journeys.

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How Culture Add Changes the Conversation on Hiring

Mind the Product

Southwest Airlines was able to align employees on providing a cheap, no-frills experience for customers by hiring people who bought into its vision of air travel. You might know or have hired with some of these biased and subjective tests before. For a time, culture fit helped companies to improve their bottom line.

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Product in Practice: Adopting the Discovery Habits is An Iterative Process

Product Talk

The idea was that her trio would test out the concepts from Continuous Discovery Habits and then guide the broader product organization at Going to adopt the habits. But people with children, with school schedules, teachers, they are beholden by budget, calendar, airline preference, or seating preference.”