Proposal to avoid managerial derailment and failure Southwest Airlines strict adherence to its mission to provide the highest quality of customer service delivered with a sense of warmth‚ friendliness‚ individual pride‚ and company spirit is a key factor to the company’s success (About Southwest Airlines Co‚ 2013). The airlines ability to commit to employees to provide them with a stable work environment that ensures equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Southwest prides itself on
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Southwest Airlines Tracy D. Braswell Benedictine University The domestic airline industry is emerging from its lost decade. Carriers suffered two recessionary swoons (one due to September 11) and a fivefold jump in fuel prices causing fifteen carriers to go bust. As frequent fliers know too well the salvation for most airlines has been to stick passengers with fees‚ reservation changes‚ bags‚ food‚ movie and headset to name a few. None of it‚ however‚ went to Southwest Airlines two and a
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The mission of southwest Airlines is dedication to the highest quality of Customer Service delivered with a sense of warmth‚ friendliness‚ individual pride and Company Spirit (Ruppel‚ 2012). The people of Southwest are the single greatest strength and most enduring long term competitive advantage (Kelly‚ 2012). Southwest Airlines started out as Air Southwest Co in 1967; serving only three local airport hubs in Texas. The hubs were San Antonio (SAT)‚ Dallas (DAL) and Houston International Airport
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1. Data mart definition A data mart is the access layer of the data warehouse environment that is used to get data out to the users. The data mart is a subset of the data warehouse that is usually oriented to a specific business line or team. Data marts are small slices of the data warehouse. Whereas data warehouses have an enterprise-wide depth‚ the information in data marts pertains to a single department. In some deployments‚ each department or business unit is considered the owner of its data
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Networks Volvo utilized data mining in an effort to discover the unknown valuable relationships in the data collected and to assist in making early predictive information. It created a network of sensors and CPUs that were embedded throughout the cars and from which data was captured. Data was also captured from customer relationship systems (CRM)‚ dealership systems‚ product development and design systems and from the production floors in their factories. The terabytes of data collected was streamed
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is a necessity for a businesses trying to maximize its profits. A new‚ and important‚ tool in gaining this knowledge is Data Mining. Data Mining is a set of automated procedures used to find previously unknown patterns and relationships in data. These patterns and relationships‚ once extracted‚ can be used to make valid predictions about the behavior of the customer. Data Mining is generally used for four main tasks: (1) to improve the process of making new customers and retaining customers;
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Imagine Widgets Airlines‚ Inc. operates 18-seat commercial flights between New York City and Washington‚ DC. After 10 seats have been sold on each aircraft‚ the company has reached the break-even point. Should Widgets consider offering a discounted fare for seats 11 through 18? Yes. Widgets Airlines‚ Inc. should offer a discount on the remaining seats. What are the advantages and disadvantages of not offering a discount on seats 11 through 18? The advantages of selling at a discounted price
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Censored data & Truncated data Censoring occurs when an observation or a measurement is outside the range and people don’ t know the certain value. The value is always above or below the range that people set. However‚ truncated data means that because of the limits‚ such as time‚ or space‚ people lose some data. Truncation is to cut off the data. In other words‚ we have collected and use the data‚ but the data is not in the range we have. It is called censored data. We don’t use the data because
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Kingfisher Airlines Limited Executive summary This report provides you an analysis and evaluation of the current and prospective problem‚ which is making Kingfisher Airline Limited in losses from last few month. Through the help of asking questions to frequent flyers and stake holders this survey conducted. Results of data analysed from the public show’s that the services which provides Kingfisher Airline limited to their passengers is not enough and the fares of it is so expensive compare to
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Southwest Airlines Resources Tangible Resources Financial Resources - Southwest has always managed its cash well . In the financial year 2001 ‚ the airline had generated 64 ‚446 ‚773with an operating income of 821 ‚659 and a credit value very good Physical Resources - In all the cities it operates instead of having agents or computerized booking system Southwest has its reservation centre and vending machines at the airports . Previously Southwest only operated in cities near Texas ‚ but started
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