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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

But Southwest’s technology was also cited by experts and the company’s leadership as contributing to the calamity. “IT billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019. The investment seems minuscule given that Southwest Airlines was a $33-$38 billion market capitalization airline in 2017. 31 what amounts to $428 million a year.

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

For understanding teams “CTOs and CIOs who work for organizations that are struggling to deliver value sustainably will greatly benefit from reading Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow (IT Revolution Press, 2019) by Manuel Pais and Matt Skelton,” says Peter Kreslins Jr.,

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Developers Skill Assessment Software: Testing Beyond the Technical

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Skill assessment software has become the new buzzword in the software development industry. Recruiters are looking for highly skilled candidates to handle their software development duties. As a result, the demand for talented software developers is witnessing unprecedented growth. Higher accuracy. Higher accuracy.

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5 Obtrusive Blockers to Avoid as a Servant Leader

Perficient

We’ve all heard of servant leadership. The concept of “being a servant” to your teams and treating employees as critical individuals to be cultivated and empowered, has strong merit. This can help managers support their teams, clear the path, and improve productivity by stepping out of the way as much as possible.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO

However, the measure of success has been historically at odds with the number of projects said to be overrunning or underperforming, as Panorama has noted that organizations have lowered their standards of success. While we weren’t naïve to the risk of disruption to the business, the extent and magnitude was greater than we anticipated.”

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Books I consumed in 2017

Erik Bernhardsson

Unbanking of America is a great book about financial services for poor people in America. Partly because our mortgage process has a lot of parallels to a manufacturing pipeline, partly because software development has that too. My 2017 music consumption was fairly label-centric. Worth reading. Stuff I listened to.

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Books I consumed in 2017

Erik Bernhardsson

Unbanking of America is a great book about financial services for poor people in America. Partly because our mortgage process has a lot of parallels to a manufacturing pipeline, partly because software development has that too. My 2017 music consumption was fairly label-centric. Worth reading. Stuff I listened to.