This Focused Performance Weblog started life as a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective, but is in the process of evolving towards primary content on interactive and mobile marketing. Think of it as about Focusing marketing messages for enhanced Performance. If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Please Remain Seated Until Your Row is Called for Boarding -- A Wired News article on airplane boarding strategies, reports on an industrial engineering research study, comparing the long-standing back-to-front zone boarding method to window-middle-aisle, "reverse pyramind" (a combination of the two), and Southwestern's unassigned by group approaches. Anazing that people haven't considered the alternatives to this bottleneck sooner, but I guess as pressures grow to turn around planes on the ground sooner, pressures to think a little deeper grow as well.
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