When it comes to airports, many travellers have a simple goal: Spend as little time there as possible. With the global recession causing airlines to cut back on services—and with travellers having less cash to spend at duty-free stores and other shops—the airport experience threatens to get even worse.
One part of the world where a trip to the airport isn’t so enervating, though, is Asia. In the annual survey of airport service quality by Geneva-based Airports Council International (ACI), Asian airports won four of the five top spots. Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South-Korea took the top for the fourth consecutive year. An overview of the complete ranking can be found here.
Breakthrough management ideas for a world in which the game will never be the same. BusinessWeek has published several stories on management ideas structured in the following categories: New ideas for growth, New ideas for talent, and New ideas for partners.An overview can be found here.
The most notable articles are: Outsourcing Tasks Instead of Jobs, The World Is IBM’s Classroom, Performance Review Takes a Page from Facebook, and Six Sigma is Out. Extreme Lean Manufacturing Is In.
Furthermore, some of the most powerful and lasting management methods were launched during tough times, when companies needed new ways to manage costs and grow. Here is a look back at some of the biggest ideas over the past 100 years.
Mobile broadband is taking off! Increased usage of mobile broadband is among others fuelled by the fact that handsets turn into computers, laptops are becoming more like mobile phones, networks are becoming faster, and prices for mobile data traffic is rapidly decreasing. Even industry veterans have been surprised by the rapid take-up of mobile broadband using built-in receivers or plug-in “dongles” to provide internet access to laptops via high-speed mobile networks.
In Western Europe alone, the number of mobile-broadband users will grow by 50% to 27m this year, according to IDC, an analyst firm. Worldwide, there are thought to be around 100m.
However a few questions still remain: Will mobile broadband replace fixed broadband in the longer term? Will emerging economies leapfrog directly to mobile broadband like with mobile phones?
Fast Company has published its yearly round-up of the world’s most innovative companies: The fast Company 50. Most notable is the number of new companies (in total 36) taking positions in the list. With team Obama surprisingly taking the top spot. While established companies like Google, Apple, Cisco, Intel, Amazon, GE, HP, Nokia are still taking a spot in the top 15.
Even in these tough times, surprising and extraordinary efforts are under way in businesses across the globe. From politics to technology, energy, and transportation; from marketing to retail, health care, and design, each company on the following pages illustrates the power and potential of innovative ideas and creative execution. These are the kinds of enterprises that will redefine our future and point the way to a better tomorrow. source
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