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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

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billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019. In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. 31 what amounts to $428 million a year.

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Software Architecture Youtube Channels to Follow

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As Youtube is one of the most preferred channels nowadays, we decided to create a list of our favourite software architecture youtube channels that we believe will inspire you. Software Architecture Youtube Channels to Follow. Mark Richards.

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Toyota transforms IT service desk with gen AI

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Ballard is also the technology executive responsible for both the company’s battery electric vehicle (BEV) platform as it shifts to electrification, and its digital platform engineering and architecture organization, and he counts on conversational AI and generative AI as major components to transform HR and IT service requests.

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ChatGPT, the rise of generative AI

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A transformer is a type of AI deep learning model that was first introduced by Google in a research paper in 2017. Five years later, transformer architecture has evolved to create powerful models such as ChatGPT. They should respond to innovations in an agile way: starting small and learning by doing.

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Integration platform Cinchy lands fresh cash to connect data sources

TechCrunch

” DeMers co-founded Cinchy with Karanjot Jaswal in 2017 with the ambitious goal of abstracting away data integration processes. “The existing app- and API-centric architecture requires individual apps to manage their own data, and this means every new app or API adds yet another data silo,” DeMers said.

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The RACI matrix: Your blueprint for project success

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Step 4 sees the technical architect taking over, devising a new architecture that will support the new process, signed off by the executive sponsor, and held accountable by the project manager, who devised the scope and deliverables in Step 1. 16 tips for a smooth switch to agile project management. RACI matrix template.

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Resilience, an introduction.

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In the academic and non-academic literature there are many definitions of resilience [ Wang-2017 , Hosseini-2016 , Holling-1996 , Martin-breen-2011 ]. This type of resilience is measurable by the following three characteristics: resistance, elasticity and stability. ” – [ Holling-1996 , Martin-breen-2011 , Kastner-2017 , Botjes-2020 ].