California’s High Speed Pipe Dream Revisited
In September 2008 I wrote this: Don’t you love how the proponents are telling us how much the ticket will cost even though this thing is two decades away from being completed, should the voters be...
View ArticleThe Southwest Airlines excerpts
I saw Jan Marshall, CIO of Southwest Airlines present this morning at the Tibco TUCON conference about sophisticated events-based functionality in baggage tracking and customer communications. On the...
View ArticleOzymandias Crumbles
Over the past 20 years, the American Airlines nonstop between BOS and SFO has been a fixture of the software industry. Almost any time you took it, you’d see friends, and even when you didn’t, you’d be...
View ArticleUnited Airlines – Redemption or More of the Usual
As you probably know, by now, I’ve been a none too happy United Airlines flyer for many years, usually working to the point I get to a Premier Executive status and then I start flying other airlines....
View ArticleUnited Airlines: Conditioning Your Customers to Expect Less
Paul Greenberg wrote a lengthy piece about his complex relationship with United Airlines and their potential for service downgrading as a result of the merger with Continental. But…I still fly United....
View ArticleCustomer Service: Getting the Basics Right
Yesterday I needed to stop at the grocery store to pick up a couple of pantry basics, and because my errand path had me away from the store I usually go to for such items I ended up in a Safeway…...
View ArticleChatterbox takes new angle on file sharing
One thing I really like about today’s Dreamforce keynote (apart from the length — two hours in, it’s still ongoing) is the way the product announcements hang off of customer stories. Instead of CEO...
View ArticleUnited Airlines – Redemption or More of the Usual
As you probably know, by now, I’ve been a none too happy United Airlines flyer for many years, usually working to the point I get to a Premier Executive status and then I start flying other airlines....
View ArticleChatterbox takes new angle on file sharing
One thing I really like about today’s Dreamforce keynote (apart from the length — two hours in, it’s still ongoing) is the way the product announcements hang off of customer stories. Instead of CEO...
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