International Journal of Management and Applied Science, ISSN: 2394-7926 Volume-3, Issue-8, Aug.-2017 http://iraj.in MANAGEMENTINNOVATION STRATEGY TO FACE THE COMPETITION OF DOMESTICCOMMERCIAL FLIGHT BUSINESS IN CASE STUDY: INDONESIA

S. RENDY ARDIANSYAH

Department of Engineering Management, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract- Innovation is an essential part to be done bycompanies in order to survive for the tight competition in business industry. Being innovative does not just creating new product using the expertise of market researchers, and product developers. It also involves using capabilities of everyone in organisation to achieve the process that help new product to reach the market effectively and efficiently. Garuda Indonesiabecomes one of many companies that successfully innovate in their core business. They do a good innovation in their marketing strategy as well as in the company's management structure. In thispaper, a review of selected innovation strategy has been undertaken by that can provide a competitive advantage and sustainability in the global market. Based on the literature review, a framework has been developed with key factors/enablers that determine the resilience and competitiveness of innovation strategy of Garuda Indonesia. This framework has been empirically studied by collecting data from annual report, and data from company. It involves a sample of competitor and provides further insight into the key characteristics associated with resilience and competitiveness of Garuda Indonesia airline that are influenced by advances in operations strategies, technology and globalisation. Finally, a detailed summary of findings and conclusions are presented.

Keywords- Innovation; resilience; competitiveness; strategy.

I. INTRODUCTION Indonesia recorded growth turn out to be a very promising business. This case then used by the other Innovation can be defined as the process of airline competitors including to take developing, creating, and implementing the new advantage of the Garuda Indonesia's bad reputation technologies, products and services which results with a massive expansion plan to get the majority of value [1]. Companies should generate innovation to market share. Based on data from State-owned keep its value in global market. Some of them forget corporation that provides services operator of airports the importance of innovation including Garuda in Indonesia, PT. Angkasa Pura, the number of air Indonesia as Indonesian airline company. Back from passengers in Indonesia has increased year by year to eighties, after separated from the KLM Dutch airline over 25 million in 2005 and continues to grow [3]. company, Garuda Indonesia received benefits from This research will address how is the competitive the government to do concession of monopoly in the position of Garuda Indonesia to competitors and aviation industry. As a result, in 1982 Garuda whatinnovation strategies are used to make Garuda Indonesia became the 2nd best airline in Indonesia rose again. afterJapan as well as being the largest and influential airline in the southern hemisphere. II. METHOD However, since the Indonesian government issued ministerial decree no.11/2011 and particular In this study, the data collection system is done using deregulation about air transportation and initial secondary data. The data source comes from operational procedures in 1999 [2], the development corporate and online data. Data collection is done in of commercial aviation industry is becoming stages according to the sequence of data which want increasingly widespread. Garuda Indonesia as to process first. For internal data of Garuda Indonesia national Indonesia airline can no longer dominate the Airline, the research group prioritizes the internal market for aviation services industry. A large number report source of the company because it will be of private airlines companies operating in Indonesia trusted and valid, while the idea for data related such as Lion Air, , and others external factors affecting the company derived from automatically enter and create a tight competition in the discussion group of researchers. Data obtained commercial flight business sector. Indirectly, this from an indirect source is used but sought by its case affected the position of Garuda Indonesia in supporting information as an example of another severe conditions. The situation was getting worse by more reliable site to validate the data obtained. the Asian crisis that hit Indonesia in the last two Data processing is done in stages in accordance with decades, a series of accidents suffered by Garuda the sequence of steps in conducting analysis of Indonesia, and the ban on flights to the European corporate strategy include three crucial steps: Union in 2007. In contrast from the problems structural analysis and positioning which consists of experienced by Garuda, the air transport sector in five forces analysis of Porter, and TOWS analysis;

Managementinnovation Strategy to Face the Competition of Domesticcommercial Flight Business in Indonesia Case Study: Garuda Indonesia Airline

7 International Journal of Management and Applied Science, ISSN: 2394-7926 Volume-3, Issue-8, Aug.-2017 http://iraj.in Innovation strategy implementation which includes Carrier industries in Indonesia. Meanwhile, Garuda “seven S” model, and Innovation on trategy Indonesia only able to occupy the second position [6]. development which using Ansoff matrix; and Thirdly, the threat of product substitution. Product Identified the needs of the innovation aims to substitution of Garuda Indonesia is air transport determine the needs of customers who will serve as services of sea and land transportation. Customers the basis for making / designing products. Identified prefer products replacement like train, car or bus for the needs of the design is made to clarify the short-haul routes, while the product replacement like boundaries in developing management. Strategy ship chosen by considering lower cost. Fourthly, applied by the company then processed into Grand bargaining power of suppliers. Garuda Indonesia has Strategy.The analysis given for each step considers a variety of suppliers including PT. Angkasa Pura to quantitative, qualitative and related data to the firm. support operations, company for fuel, The results that have been obtained in the form of while the engine used by the fleet of aircraft data from observation. manufactured by CFM International between Rolls- Royce in the UK, and General Electric in the United III. RESULT States. Lastly, bargaining power of buyers. Garuda Indonesia as the premium airlines will focus on two A. The Structural Analysis and Positioning of categories of customers both domestic and Garuda Indonesia international. Garuda Indonesia for its own domestic To be competitive in the aviation industry bothinside market focus on middle-class customers by providing and outside the country, determining weaknesses, Full-Service Company. For international routes, each strengths, opportunities, threats, and strategies year Garuda Indonesia earned substantial profits from become crucial [4]. At this stage, I use the model of the Indonesian pilgrimage to middle east. Porter's five forces to analyse the competition of 2) TOWS Analysis Garuda Indonesia which is a widely used approach to Marketing audit is a systematic, comprehensive, develop a strategy in many industries and TOWS independent and always takes place on a regular basis Analysis to identify factor that affecting the company. in a company. Recommendations and solutions to improve the company's performance will be 1) Five Forces Analysis generated through this activity [7]. In this part, I tried The competitive strategy aims to establish the to implement Garuda Indonesia’s marketing audit profitable and sustainable position against the forces using a TOWS analysis. TABLEI TOWS ANALYSIS that determine industry competition [5]. Garuda Indonesia's business strategy in the competitive WEAKNESS STRENGTHS 1. Garuda Indonesia always 1. Perform continuous promotion in aviation industry can be analysed using five forces depends on automatic system to various ways such as social analysis approach. Firstly, competition among run its business. If something media promotions to increase error occurred on the system, sales. existing companies. The increasing number of business processes will be 2. Improve and expand the role of domestic and international airlines that operate disturbed. each individual worker to be able 2. Technical factor such as the to become a mentor so that indicating strong competition in this industry. limitation of cabin crew which productivity can be maintained. Domestic airlines include Air Asia, Sriwijaya Air, make more delays on flight. 3. Always innovating to produce value added products. Lion Air, Wings, Merpati. There are also several 4. Customer relation management international airlines, such as Airlines, becomes the main focus. , JAL, KLM. To respond to 5. Implement booking engine features to facilitate customers. competition among airlines Garuda Indonesia carries out operational activities byimplementing OPPORTUNITIES W-O S-O 1. Develop the new fleet with 1. Recruited many cabin crew in 1. International media promotion standardized only on Full-Service Carrier, but they advanced technology to save fuel order to avoid delays and as (S1,O1). forget to play in Low-Cost Carrier. Secondly, the so that the company can make additional human resources in 2. innovations on the new fleet to an efficiency. anticipation of global market increase efficiency rate (S3,S5, threat of new competitors. Newcomers in industries 2. International market potential competition (W2,O2, O3). O1). bring new capacity, the desire to seize the market. As has increased. 2. Updating existing technology 3. Provide training and development a result, prices may be down or inflated costs, thereby 3. The prediction of Indonesia's systems (W1,O1). of individuals among the economic growth from the last employees in order to provide reducing profits. New competitors Garuda Indonesia one decade can directly affect excellent service to customers mostly Low-Cost Carrier has caused many changes in the growth of air services (S2, S4, O3) the aviation industry in total. At the time, Low-Cost THREAT W-T S-T Carrier market share overpowered by Lion Air. As 1. Open sky systems integration 1. To Make loyal passengers to 1. Developing customer relations has been applied in South East continue and always use the management to maintain the the main competitor of Garuda Indonesia, Lion Air Asia region. Garuda Indonesia, so Garuda loyalty of passengers of Garuda has a market share over 45% in 2011 and 2012. The 2. The capacity of the operator of could still compete with other Indonesia (S4,T2,T4). low cost carriers has increased. transport competitors and have 2. Expanding the interesting number of domestic passengers Low-Cost Carrier 3. Flight routes can be influenced competitive advantages promotion through collaboration choosing Lion Air also increased year on year from by the political situation in a (W1,T4,T1) between ASEAN’s aviation country. 2. To give satisfaction to the companies and connecting flight 28 million in 2008 to 36 million in 2013. Based on 4. Other transportation is cheaper. passengers by increasing the (S1,T1). that data, we know how attractiveness the 5. Substantial capital for the number of pilots, cabin crew, and 3. Shaping customer mindset that development in the aviation the services provided (W2, T5) service of Garuda Indonesia is performance of Lion Air in domestic market year by industry. the most friendly (S4,S2) year which makes them became the top of Low-Cost

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8 International Journal of Management and Applied Science, ISSN: 2394-7926 Volume-3, Issue-8, Aug.-2017 http://iraj.in TOWS matrix will identify the factors that will affect CHARTIII the existing potentials factor at company both good INDONESIA GDP and bad factors. These factors will be anticipated as a strategy to develop the company [8].There are four factors that influence: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. As shown in table below weakness is anything that Garuda Indonesia does not well. Strength is anything that make Garuda Indonesia does well. Opportunities are external conditions that support strength. While the threats are external conditions that are not related to the weaknesses and strengths. As an evidence, there is an increasing number of TABLEII passenger to travel by plane as seen in chart IV. EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL FACTORS CHART IV PASSENGER CARRIED External Factors: Internal Factors: Air transport, passengers Threats Weakness carried 1. Open sky systems integration has 1. Garuda Indonesia always depends 100

been applied in South East Asia on automatic system to run its s n 80 o

region. business. If something error i l l i 60 2. The capacity of the operator of low occurred on the system, business M 40 cost carriers has increased. processes will be disturbed. 20 3. Flight routes can be influenced by 2. Technical factor such as the 0 the political situation in a country. limitation of cabin crew which make 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1

4. Other transportation is cheaper. more delays on flight. 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 5. Substantial capital for the development in the aviation industry. Based on the data, Garuda Indonesia can take the

Opportunities Strengths opportunities from Indonesia economic growth. 1. Develop the new fleet with advanced 1. Perform continuous promotion in B. Innovation Strategies Implementation technology to save fuel so that the various ways such as social media After knowing structural analysis and positioning of company can make an efficiency. promotions to increase sales. Garuda, then next step is implementing the 2. International market potential has 2. Improve and expand the role of innovation strategies. In this situation, Garuda seems increased. each individual worker to be able to to have a shortage to implement the strategy. 3. The prediction of Indonesia's become a mentor so that Implementation of the strategy needed McKinsey's economic growth from the last one productivity can be maintained. 7S framework. Garuda Indonesia internal decade can directly affect the growth 3. Always innovating to produce value organization and effectiveness can be analyse through 7S model. of air services f*) added products.

4. Customer relation management 1) The 7S model becomes the main focus. The 7S model consists of strategy, structure, systems, 5. Implement booking engine features shared values, style, staff and skills [10]. Those key to facilitate customers. elements have a main role to make Garuda Indonesia success in term of their organization. 7S can be done by implementing innovation on management Information on these factors can only be resolved structure through Quantum Leap and innovation on with scanning of Garuda Indonesia’s work strategy development. Innovation in the management environment internally through the enterprise structure Garuda Indonesia starts with finding a new information and externally through a collection of leader who has the managerial ability and capacity in events, strength and relationships external putting a responsible member of the working group, environment that may affect the marketing of Garuda delegating the member for other activities in their Indonesia itself. According to the table 2, from control and direction. The organisation of industry opportunities factor it is found that the growth of depends on the intelligence of one person which can Indonesian economic based on GDP which shown in be made to coordinate in a general way the mental Indonesia GDP automatically affect the growth of air operations and routine manual of others [11]. In 2009, service industry services. Emirsyah Satar as new Director of Garuda Indonesia

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9 International Journal of Management and Applied Science, ISSN: 2394-7926 Volume-3, Issue-8, Aug.-2017 http://iraj.in did significant changes for followers and centricitY, Honesty and openness, and Integrity). organisational impact on the company in gaining the This step consist of organisation development, trust of customers and stakeholders [12]. Investors improving performance management system and more believed to invest in companies that are building leadership capability. "healthy" like Garuda. One of the changes to do is "Quantum Leap" that used as a key strategy in facing C. Innovation on Strategy Development the aviation industry competition. In the strategy analysis, conducted an assessment of Garuda Indonesia performs a variety of ways to certain types of strategies and whether the strategy maintain a competitive advantage, one of them is to adopted by the company. Intensive strategy applied to implement a Quantum Leap that consists of seven increase Garuda Indonesia’s business growth by coherent strategies used to dominate the market. using Ansoff matrix [13]. Those strategies are: 2) Ansoff Matrix a) Increasing the potential for the company in the international market by joining the Global Strategic direction of investment start from market Alliance. penetration to diversification strategies as can be seen After Garuda Indonesia join the SkyTeam Global (the on table V. global )they will totally ready to keep CHART V continually improving the competitiveness in the STRATEGY DIRECTION Asia-Pacific region. b) Continually strive to grow and dominate the market for a full-service carrier in Indonesia. In the domestic market, Garuda Indonesia should try to improve its competitive position by increasing the premium service quality and enlarge market expansion into the low-cost-carrier by developing regional jet aircraft. c) Fill the Low-Cost Carrier market through , a subsidiary of Garuda Indonesia Airlines.

The aim of a strategy adopted is to separate the company's management between Garuda and Citilink, By using Ansoff matrix as strategy development maximise aircraft utilisation, focus on short-haul framework, Garuda Indonesia can focus on not only routes, and maximise aircraft maintenance. competing in Full-Service and Low-Cost Carrier but d) Expand, simplify and rejuvenate fleet. also keep remain attractive in the market. There are Garuda needs to strike a balance between the number four steps of Ansoff matrix: of fleets with existing needs. The aim is to achieve fleet availability that can be operated with an efficient a) Firstly, for market penetration Garuda joined and flexible. The strategy used is the synergy the SkyTeam Global Alliance Airlines to improve between the aircraft utilized by the Indonesian competitiveness and unlock the potential in market Garuda and Citilink. Garuda also closing the routes share international scope. that not benefits at all. For instance, international b) Secondly, for market Development Garuda route from to Taiwan. Indonesia fills the market through Citilink which only e) Strengthen the branding of Garuda Indonesia. focused on short-haul routes to meet the market Garuda provides premium proposition products demand for low-cost carrier. through four components. The friendliness of the c) Thirdly, for product development in address crew, customer service quality, more modern cabin to maintain the turbine engine machine, Garuda interior and new fleet. For example Garuda became Indonesia makes GMF which focused on the service official sponsorship of Liverpool Football Club from and maintenance the aircraft including components 2012-2015. and engines. f) Cost discipline. d) The last step is diversification strategies Garuda needs to focus on reducing the cost carried by opening six subsidiary companies were continuously but still provide better service quality. related and unrelated to the core business that each of Two strategies are applied, the transition from the them has a focus on supporting GarudaIndonesia’s indirect sales into direct sales to decrease the cost of business. Those diversifications are: sales that is too large (eg. call centre) and the which engaged in the hospitality and tourism such as operation of the new fleet to reduce maintenance hotels, tour andtravel agents. Garuda Sentra Medika costs. which focus on supporting and providing services in a g) Human capital. professional manner and equipped with a laboratory, In this step, Garuda focus on the quality of human Radiology, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy and Medical resources to give better understanding the culture of Check Up. Garuda Indonesia Cargo which focus on Fly-Hi (eFficient and effective, Loyalty, Customer handling the cargo transportation service. It also

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10 International Journal of Management and Applied Science, ISSN: 2394-7926 Volume-3, Issue-8, Aug.-2017 http://iraj.in promotes its services through cooperation between After Citilink Join flight agent and freight forwarder both domestic and international routes. Garuda Indonesia Training CONCLUSION Centre whish engaged to train the new flight attendants before they officially work as a cabin crew. Analysis of market situation has provided a solid Abacus Distribution System Indonesia which basis for Garuda Indonesia to rise and compete in the involved in information and communication marketplace. Garuda Indonesia still competes in the technology. It provides training facilities for travel Full-Service Carrier without having to change agency, renting computer devices for travel agents. direction to compete in the Low-Cost Carrier market Aero Systems Indonesia, engaged in consulting and and reduce costs. Garuda Indonesia implementing maintenance services in Airline companies. some of the strategies of innovation to continue e) attractive in the market. Innovation committed begins Garuda Indonesia using the horizontal integration by by analysing the position of the company with establishing Citilink which aims to reach consumers competitors and executing the strategy solutions. who are looking for low cost flights. Services which provided by Citilink is also comparable to premium Garuda also restructured management through the services provided Garuda Indonesia. Garuda Quantum Leap strategy. This strategy includes 7-step Indonesia using this strategy in order to compete with changes such as the making Citilink as subsidiary the power of Lion Air which has dominated the Low- company who play in Low-Cost Carrier market to Cost Carrier market and domestic after dark period compete with Lion Air, joining SkyTeam, providing experienced by Garuda. Based chart VI, it can be service premium quality in every airline, concluded that Citilink as a Garuda Indonesia’s strengthenthe brand image of the company through a subsidiary has an important role to take over the Low media campaign such as advertising and sponsorship, Cost Carrier market and competing with Lion Air. do cost discipline and implementing Fly-Hi culture in f) every line of the company's organization. Another innovation is to do intensive strategies that focus on CHART VI the market and new business and existing as well as INDONESIAN DOMESTIC PASSENGER SHARE BEFORE AND AFTER using a horizontal approach. To maintain market CITILINK JOINED share to remain optimal, Garuda management strategies can be put on market-share. Garuda Indonesian Indonesia became a successful aviation company to develop an innovation strategy beyond its core domestic passenger s business with the maximum use of assets and resources that they have. All the innovations make hare… Garuda Indonesia as one of the progressive 1% 1% 1% improvement airline companies in the world. 2% 4% Garuda ACKNOWLEDGMENT 11% 23% Lion 12% The authors are grateful to the Directorate General of 45% Higher Education (Directorate General of Higher Sriwijaya Education), Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia and Indonesia Endowment

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