XXL Solutions - "do things differently"

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XXL Solutions is a boutique consultancy specialising on the areas of customer management, loyalty, technology and innovation. We offer bespoke solutions for our customers with a small and very efficient team. Our vision is to work WITH our customers to develop truly differentiation solutions, and to accompany them from strategy to implementation. We help our customers from all industries to think

differently and to turn changing staff and customer expectations and new technology into business opportunities. We are based in the heart of Europe, but we are truly international and multi-cultural, with extra expertise in Europe, Russia, Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Cutting edge retailing for aviation and travel - customers should demand nothing lessThank you to the amazing panel memb...
19/12/2023

Cutting edge retailing for aviation and travel - customers should demand nothing less

Thank you to the amazing panel members - a real "super panel": Nicol Seifertová BA MSc at Václav Havel Airport Prague / Letiště Václava Havla Praha, Paul Carroll at Air Asia, Nick Redpath at Airport Dimensions and Mitchell Fordham at eSIM Go.

We realised we brought together more than 60 years of / / / and retailing experience coupled with a lot of innovative spirit and openness to share our insight and current innovative approaches to showcase what cutting edge can look like in aviation and travel.

And how putting the customer at the centre and innovating automatically results in higher customer satisfaction and stickiness as well as increased revenues.

Thanks to technology there are no limits anymore to and commercial creativity, creating a seamless journey across touch points and across partners.

We also touched upon crossing physical and digital boundaries, marketplace and social commerce, the increasing importance of mobile and the metaverse, and what it takes to achieve the transformation to truly put the customer and digital at the centre. And more.

A big thank you to the organisers of a truly personal, inspiring and impactful event in Singapore, Daniel Coleman, Ross Falconer, Corrie Thompson Ryan Ghee Future Travel Experience

Join our panel members for an exciting discussion about “New ideas and opportunities to enhance e-commerce, ancillary revenue and retail in air transport” mo...

Check out my latest article: Aviation of the Future: What Needs to Change to Get Aviation Fit for the Twenty-First Centu...
24/08/2019

Check out my latest article: Aviation of the Future: What Needs to Change to Get Aviation Fit for the Twenty-First Century https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/aviation-future-what-needs-change-get-fit-century-ursula-silling via

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The world around us has changed dramatically, particularly since the beginning of the twenty-first century, mainly due to the broad availability of the Internet. Inventions such as smart phones, apps, virtual face to face conversations, coupled with the rise of Facebook, Google, Amazon & Co.

Looking forward to   with 200 thought leaders and innovators from  ,  ,  , other  ,   and innovative tech companies: thi...
10/02/2019

Looking forward to with 200 thought leaders and innovators from , , , other , and innovative tech companies: think future - Hamburg Aviation Conference, 21-22 February

Attendees include top managers from Thai Airways, Aegean Airlines, Wizzair, Eurowings, TUIfly, LH Group, Vueling, Luxair, Air Baltic, El Al, Easy Jet, Firstair (Canada), Myway airlines (Georgia), Air France, Ukrainian Airlines), Kenya Airways, Hamburg / Brussels / Moscow Domodedovo / Lyon Airport, Fraport, Swissport, Frontier Airlines, A-Rosa, TUI Cruises, Plug and Play, Airbus, Grab, Inflyter, KPMG and more.

Topics include

- innovate and get ready for the future now - by Vueling Airlines

- the road to achieve an innovation culture - by Lufthansa

- no limits - grand opening panel, future visions and what to focus on now - by Hamburg Airport, TUI Cruises, Branchspace, Plug & Play

- how the digital customer can drive revenue for airports, airlines and their commercial partners - by Collinson

- real life stories / experiences around digital assistants, retail and other revenue generators, data and personalisation

Don’t be afraid of leaving the comfort zone and experience how effective it is to work with agile suppliersWe appreciate...
01/12/2018

Don’t be afraid of leaving the comfort zone and experience how effective it is to work with agile suppliers

We appreciated that XXL Solutions` CEO Ursula Silling moderated a panel with four super innovative and super smart best-of-breed providers for the airline industry at the IATA AIR in Rome. Alexander von Bernstorff at inteRES, Hélène Millet at Conztanz, Peter Schoeber at Lufthansa Systems and Urs Kipfer at Datatrans AG demonstrated how they could deliver more speed AND more innovation compared to one-stop-shop vendors, with smart solutions based on NDC and ONE Order..

Questions covered were among others how best-of-breed solutions can create value for airlines, what are the challenge to overcome to deliver, how could they unlock innovation envisioned by NDC & ONE Order?

The final recommendation to airlines from the panel members were as follows:
"The technology is there. Go and start implementing it, with pilots."
"Pick the right partners, which are flexible and have the right service attitude."
"We are likely to stay with this NDC world and the old world co-existing for a while - do not fear the transition, experienced vendors know about it. Let’s go for it."
"Don’t be afraid of leaving the comfort zone and experience how effective it is to work with agile suppliers."

Conclusions from our side: There are huge opportunities of working with best of breed organisations, they can offer lots of flexibility, mix and match and allow to go ahead and do what airlines want to do.It is a bigger risk not to go ahead than just going for it and seizing the opportunity, with pilots and agile implementation.
Airlines can move ahead now, today, thanks to IATA NDC and one order and specialised suppliers such as these four best of breed ones.



https://youtu.be/jKo4M50Of3g

Alexander v. Bernstorff, Director Airline Solutions, InteRES Urs Kipfer, Head of Key Account Management, Datatrans Hélène Millet, Head of Consulting & Airlin...

Exciting roadmap to   , new advisory board members, what aviation and travel can learn from fashion, speaker and partner...
21/10/2018

Exciting roadmap to , new advisory board members, what aviation and travel can learn from fashion, speaker and partner spotlight

Pencil in the dates: 21 - 22 February 2019.

We will keep you tuned about our detailed agenda and amazing line up.

Ask the questions you always wanted to ask, with some workshops for specific hot topics providing additional insight to panel discussions with diverse aspects, case studies and more.

Winding Tree Travel Tech Con Aegean Airlines IBS Software Swissport International AG Station Zürich Futuris - Workforce 2030 - 5 December 2018 Airbus ch-aviation Bold Endeavours Robin Kater / Photography Philip Micallef Carl Michel Bratati Ghosh Hamburg Airport



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Join us to discuss with thought leaders, decision makers, leaders in aviation, rail, hospitality, mobility potential solutions to embrace the new digital opportunities:

Best-of-Breed Innovation in     - unlocking innovation for airlines  Change is in the air. Good to see the right questio...
15/10/2018

Best-of-Breed Innovation in - unlocking innovation for airlines

Change is in the air. Good to see the right questions being asked at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Airline Industry Retailing Symposium in Rome, Italy 23-25 October 2018 .

Looking forward to moderating a panel discussion with super innovative vendors - demonstrating how they could deliver more speed AND more compared to one-stop-shop vendors, with smart solutions based on and .

Honoured to be there with InteRES GmbH Conztanz Systems Datatrans AG Hamburg Aviation Conference - think future

Based on the success of the Distribution Track of the former IATA World Passenger Symposium (WPS), the IATA Airline Industry Retailing Symposium (AIRS) will address in depth the topics of Distribution and Payment.

Looking forward to explore how future needs, trends, innovations will shape the way we   at     (Global   & Passenger Sy...
25/09/2018

Looking forward to explore how future needs, trends, innovations will shape the way we at (Global & Passenger Symposium in 2-4 October18. Great content: airport to Seamless ,World of Interactive & future of experience!

Thanks International Air Transport Association (IATA) for asking us to curate the track: , & best in class & concepts with a holistic view along the .Thought leaders from , & will ensure food for thought

Airbus Viasat Inc.. Panasonic UK Avionics Air Malta Grab flybmi CaraveloTech Brussels Airport Pragma Consulting SkyTeam airBaltic Lufthansa AmericanAirlines Delta Air Lines Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos" Manchester Airport Group KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Air France International Air Transport Association (IATA)

Looking forward to explore how future needs, trends, innovations will shape the way we   at     (Global   & Passenger Sy...
25/09/2018

Looking forward to explore how future needs, trends, innovations will shape the way we at (Global & Passenger Symposium in 2-4 October18. Great content: airport to Seamless ,World of Interactive & future of experience!

Thanks International Air Transport Association (IATA) for asking us to curate the track: , & best in class & concepts with a holistic view along the .Thought leaders from , & will ensure food for thought

Airbus Viasat Inc. Panasonic UK Avionics Air Malta Grab flybmi CaraveloTech Brussels Airport Pragma Consulting SkyTeam airBaltic Lufthansa Delta Air Lines American Airlines Athens International Airport Manchester Airport KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Air France

The recipe of "The Blonde Salad"​ - a social media and a retail success storyOn 1st September this year the 31 year old ...
20/09/2018

The recipe of "The Blonde Salad"​ - a social media and a retail success story

On 1st September this year the 31 year old Chiara Ferragni got married in beautiful Noto, Sicily. Media attention varied from detailed descriptions about the whole 3 days ceremony and of course her outfit(s), branded boarded cards when guests were flown in with a charter flight with Alitalia up to estimates about the cost of the wedding and her wedding dress(es).

Her Dior Couture gowns for her wedding are estimated to have had a media impact for the designer of $5.2m according to Fashionista. The 31-year-old has reached 14.9 million Instagram followers to date. She has an impressive list of partnerships with famous fashion and beauty brands, including Dior, Yamamay, Burberry , Victoria Secret, Yves Saint Laurent.

What is more, in September 2017, Chiara Ferragni was ranked first in the Forbes list of the most powerful fashion influencers. Harvard Business Review have created a case study around her activities.We analysed what has been key to her success. Check out our findings in the enclosed article.

The Blonde Salad by Chiara Ferragni Chiara Ferragni Collection - Milan Store Chiara Ferragni collection

On 1st September this year the 31 year old Chiara Ferragni got married in beautiful Noto, Sicily. Media attention varied from detailed…

Beyond airbnb - hospitality keeps reinventing itself to create experiencesIt was interesting to experience myself how Hi...
14/09/2018

Beyond airbnb - hospitality keeps reinventing itself to create experiences

It was interesting to experience myself how Hilton Hotels Worldwide have changed to appeal to new generation customers. Excellent mobile booking process, great flexibility by staff in the hotel, strong engagement with customers through the app. The digital does not yet go all the way through, for example digital key cards were not available even though it was one of the latest hotels.
Hostels are another group in the hospitality arena which keep surprising and create special experiences, building on digital, art, activities and socialising. Hostelworld is one of the innovative players in the area of digital experiences for hostels.

Going back to medieval times and turning this into an authentic experience is the new "albergo diffuso" concept, a "scattered hotel". The village is the hotel, and guests stay in the original houses, restored to meet travellers' requirements. It is a great example how new concepts aided by technology can create enormous opportunities, and new jobs. Sishouses do something similar, also within the medieval environment of a Borgo, but using places where people also still live.

I am sure that new concepts will go beyond borders, and there are more developments to come.

An unusual hotel, scattered throughout the community, is breathing life back into deserted villages.

Three musceteers? View from Lufthansa aircraft arriving at Geneva, Switzerland      easyJet Vueling Alitalia
05/09/2018

Three musceteers? View from Lufthansa aircraft arriving at Geneva, Switzerland

easyJet Vueling Alitalia

Innovative, great customer experience & contributor to sustainabilityFreisinger Hof includes bicycle rental in their roo...
13/07/2018

Innovative, great customer experience & contributor to sustainability

Freisinger Hof includes bicycle rental in their room rates - a reason to stay with them! Great quality bicycles and fantastic support and service by the team, including the handy man - to get us going.

Thanks for a great stay!

Our new smart doorbell has finally arrivedWe are excited!   Indiegogo Kickstarter
03/07/2018

Our new smart doorbell has finally arrived

We are excited! Indiegogo Kickstarter

It js not so difficult to make kids happy...Fun to see a children’s play area at an airport with children playing instea...
29/06/2018

It js not so difficult to make kids happy...

Fun to see a children’s play area at an airport with children playing instead of being deserted!

Many airports seem to have created children’s areas to tick a box instead of having children’s needs and pleasures in mind. And the needs of their parents.

Great initiative by Genève Aéroport with this new playground. Love the airport playing field. And it comes at the right time, with the holiday season starting.

The past is less and less a faithful mirror of the futureIn the digital world RM has become even more important than bef...
28/05/2018

The past is less and less a faithful mirror of the future

In the digital world RM has become even more important than before in terms of revenue creation and optimisation. Roles of sales, distribution and requirements for revenue management and pricing are changing as a result.

In this interview with Laurent Lebard , Co-Founder and President at YIELDIN , we discuss a number of prevalent questions for revenue management and how they can be addressed on the systems side - relevance of historic data, forecasting demand in the current dynamic environment, changing customer loyalty, the role of innovation and why top management needs to get involved to get their macro vision translated into the RM micro vision.

Estelle Gueritey Alexandre de Tenorio

In the digital world RM has become even more important than before in terms of revenue creation and optimisation. Roles of sales, distribution and requirements for revenue management and pricing are changing as a result.  In  this interview, we discuss a number of prevalent quest

yesterday's wow quickly becomes today's ordinaryWhy customer focus remains important, the fact that  Prime subscriptions...
22/05/2018

yesterday's wow quickly becomes today's ordinary

Why customer focus remains important, the fact that Prime subscriptions have topped 100M, free cash flow per share as an indicator rather than the usual corporate fascination with earnings and profit. why memos work better than power points and more super interesting insights from Jeff Bezos' 21 annual letters to shareholders.

Jean-Louis Gassée did a nice extract here.

I think the paragraphs on customer expectations are a very good summary for why any organisation needs to put the customer at the heart of everything and keep continuous improvement.

Bezos was a bit overly dramatic about why customer focus is so crucial in 1998:

I constantly remind our employees to be afraid, to wake up every morning terrified. Not of our competition, but of our customers. Our customers have made our business what it is, they are the ones with whom we have a relationship, and they are the ones to whom we owe a great obligation. And we consider them to be loyal to us — right up until the second that someone else offers them a better service

By 2017, he had lightened up, but without losing the sense of the customers’ importance:

One thing I love about customers is that they are divinely discontent. Their expectations are never static — they go up. It’s human nature. We didn’t ascend from our hunter-gatherer days by being satisfied. People have a voracious appetite for a better way, and yesterday’s ‘wow’ quickly becomes today’s ‘ordinary’.



https://mondaynote.com/bezos-a-ceo-who-can-write-2f368ee36599

by Jean-Louis Gassée

“It is a constant evolution of doing better and better, and it is ultimately for our customer and our shareholders.”Grea...
18/05/2018

“It is a constant evolution of doing better and better, and it is ultimately for our customer and our shareholders.”

Great interview with Adriana Karaboutis , Global Chief Information and Digital Officer for the National Grid plc by Jim DuBois, former Global CIO at Microsoft.

When listening to Adriana the utility sector gets quite exciting. And indeed possibilities of turning customers into producers and changing the whole consumption models for energy illustrate this well. But it also becomes clear that the challenges for digital transformation are similar everywhere - and it is up to great leadership to achieve that change.

Adriana also points out that having digital in her title does not mean that it is just her area to execute, but it is working in partnership with each other across all organisations and making digital part of everything which achieves the change. Another key point for any organisation in any industry on the road to digital transformation.

think future - Hamburg Aviation Conference

https://ciowatercooler.co.uk/the-global-cio-series-jim-dubois-interviews-adriana-karaboutis-global-information-and-digital-officer/

In the next addition of our Global CIO Interview Series. In this interview Jim DuBois, former Microsoft global CIO interviews Adriana Karaboutis the Global Chief Information and Digital Officer for the National Grid. In this session Adrianna shares some great insight on their digital transformation....

The retailing frontier - a glimpse of where the world is movingHave you passed by a number of empty shops lately? Retail...
10/05/2018

The retailing frontier - a glimpse of where the world is moving

Have you passed by a number of empty shops lately? Retailing is the clear sign that the world is changing. Whilst more and more traditional bricks and mortar shops close, originally digital only retailers open physical stores to improve customer service and to showcase products.

Technologies such as AR / VR help to create a real experience. And the use of AI helps to understand what customers want and make the right recommendations, ideally combining own data with third party and macro data.

Leveraging new technologies is the only way for aviation and travel and any company to keep up to speed and to ensure they meet their customers' demands.

MarTech Today

https://martechtoday.com/how-to-seamlessly-augment-the-retail-experience-214902

Contributor Rohit Gupta predicts the future of in-store interactions which will be enabled by advanced technologies.

How innovation changes the world..leveraging innovation through insight into other industiresamazing keynote by Bratati ...
22/04/2018

How innovation changes the world
..leveraging innovation through insight into other industires

amazing keynote by Bratati Ghosh, CMO at IBS Software at Hamburg Aviation Conference - think future 2018

https://www.xxlsolutions.us/blog/how-innovation-changes-the-world

How innovatino changes the world - Leveraging innovation through insight into other industries, by Bratati Ghosh, CMO at IBS Software

The five key technologies for airline merchandising Listen to our CEO Ursula Silling at Airline Information Ancillaries ...
22/04/2018

The five key technologies for airline merchandising

Listen to our CEO Ursula Silling at Airline Information Ancillaries & Merchandising conference in Edinburgh 2018



https://www.xxlsolutions.us/blog/2018/4/22/the-five-key-technologies-you-need-to-know-for-travel-retail-to-survive

Ursula Silling, CEO & Founder of XXL Solutions - do things differently, talks about the 5 key technologies you need to know at the Airline Information Ancillaries & Merchandising Conference in Edinburgh on 11th April 2018. Ursula puts the technologies into perspective as an enabler f

Retail trends 2018Great summary by Tom McGee about retail trends taking shape in 2018. Other industries can learn a lot ...
08/04/2018

Retail trends 2018

Great summary by Tom McGee about retail trends taking shape in 2018. Other industries can learn a lot from retailers. Travel retail has focused too long just on bags, seats and catering, with all airlines going into the same direction and forgetting about the customer experience and how they can really make a difference.

In today's world, technology is in place to support anything we want to do, for reasonable prices. And to truly understand and cater for customer needs, thus differentiating from competition. We just need to be smart and innovative and put the right strategies in place.

Looking forward to interesting discussions at the Ai Events | Airline Information ancillary merchandising conference in Edinburgh this week. Our CEO Ursula Silling will present and discuss her thoughts on "The five key technologies you need to know for best in class travel retail merchandising." Thanks to Michael Smith and Christopher Staab for inviting us.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommcgee/2018/04/03/retail-trends-taking-shape-in-2018/

Retail centers are defying the skeptics and continuing to reconfigure themselves as consumer hubs for entertainment, education and fitness, alongside traditional shopping.

Happy to announce that our CEO Ursula Silling has just joined the Board of Advisors uniforce Consulting GmbH  Uniforce C...
10/03/2018

Happy to announce that our CEO Ursula Silling has just joined the Board of Advisors uniforce Consulting GmbH

Uniforce Consulting is a consulting company "made by students" for smart organisations who realize the value of being close to the young generation to approach the changes needed in this dynamic environment.

Ursula about her new role and uniforce: "I believe strongly that it is more important than ever to approach problems differently and use the power of committed and engaged people - above all digital natives - to get ready for the future.

At XXL Solutions we are not a typical consultancy but offer tailor made solutions and insist on working with the teams in the organisation to make change happen, rather than coming in with pre-defined solutions. We have always embraced working with students to understand changes and to do things differently. I am proud to be part of the board of advisors at uniforce and to work together and support the amazing team. More organisations should embrace students power!"



https://goo.gl/XcwkdX

‪Skipping hotel housekeeping - a win win for customer experience & the environmentHave you had these moments when being ...
04/03/2018

‪Skipping hotel housekeeping - a win win for customer experience & the environment

Have you had these moments when being in a hotel with a tight work schedule or simply for pleasure and being interrupted in your plans because housekeeping wants to ckean the room? And they might put back blankets which you had put aside or change items in the bathroom which then you have to change back again to feel more at ease?

Hotels have started to discover that skipping hotel housekeeping can help the Environment & reduce cost for customers & hotel AND improve

Marriott Hotels Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. Sheraton Hotels & Resorts and more hotels have introduced the policy of offering the choice and giving a food & beverage voucher and/or program points in return for not using housekeeping. Some hotels have stopped housekeeping altogether.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/travel/skipping-hotel-housekeeping-perks.html‬

Promoting sustainability, properties are offering food and beverage credits and other perks for guests who forgo housekeeping services.

28/02/2018

Smart doorbells to solve the delivery dilemma?

Whilst online shopping keeps increasing the bottleneck has been delivery services. Time saving and efficiency of online orders have often fired back when clients had to chase their deliveries at post offices and delivery services because they were not at home at the time of delivery.

Sometimes deliveries were sent back because time limits of storage were reached by the time people came back from holidays or a business trip, or simply managed to liberate the time for pick up or another delivery. Some delivery services at least added preferred day and time of day for delivery, but this was the exception.

Smart doorbells seem to be the new trend to help solve this problem and add real value to deliveries.
Amazon.com buys 'smart' doorbell firm . Ring is linked to videos of doorsteps, giving control of who approaches the door and creating trust to deposit deliveries in the entry area.

Another smart doorbell start up is , allowing notification via your mobile in case of delivery, whereever you are. Ding is ready for delivery as we speak and used crowdfunding via Indiegogo in order to fund the start up phase.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43217601

Ring makes doorbells that stream videos of people approaching or ringing the front door to phones.

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Fostering innovation & digital transformation for airlines, airports & travel. Obsessed with the customer and making things happen in the digital age.

More than 50% of the top 10 companies with highest market value are tech companies. None of them is from travel or aviation. The smart phone and the internet have changed the world. Consumers get used to standards of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple. And yesterday’s WOW quickly becomes today’s ordinary. Customers are also the people working in our organisations

Fundamental change is needed to succeed in this digital era. Another reorganisation following the same principles of the past is not enough any more. Introduction of new technology without changing the underlying processes has proven to not work. It is like painting a house for which the fundamental structure is rotten.

True transformation is needed. Change needs to become part of the DNA of your organisation’s culture to understand why, foresee continuously changing customer needs and to not fear but enjoy doing completely new things. Making transformation happen also requires a thorough understanding of the old world, a vision of the new world and what technology is out there to make it happen.

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