Category Archives: Service Management

Are seats the competitive advantage?

At companies I was with we were not allowed to fly business class.  Is this really a sustainable competitive advantage? And just how big and important is this market segment? And are the airlines, who have been bankrupt so often, ready to be stupid yet again? Note that the most profitable airline (Southwest) does not have special seating.

The supply chain impact of business class seats « The Operations Room

Operations and Service intersect

You can do both well. The home Depot example is revealing.

 

Tweaking retail operations to deal with changing customer behavior « The Operations Room

Operations management in Health Care

Just what we talk about. Failure prevention in the health care business.

Preventing problems in health care « The Operations Room