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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

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The last thing any CIO wants is to experience catastrophic operational issues during a peak season, but that’s exactly what executives at Southwest Airlines faced last week. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts. Even before the blizzard hit, Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan acknowledged on Nov.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

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Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

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Instead, the publicly held operator of Cathay Pacific Airlines and HK Express is shifting from migration to optimization mode in an effort to wrest additional benefits from its all-in cloud transformation. The cloud has helped us to be more scalable and agile.” It will replace the standard MPLS network, he adds.

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Rackspace technology—Award-winning, multi-cloud modernization powered by VMware

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Innovation and agility are key indicators of business success. For many enterprises, the focus is on modernizing and transforming their operations to innovate and stay agile – all with an eye on growth and embracing new opportunities. Every company today is a technology company.

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Large Scale Agile Transformation: What Doesn?t Work and Key Learnings

Agile Alliance

This week, I had Vanesa Tejada in our Agile Alliance series of interviews with Latin American Agile Luminaries. Vanesa is originally from Madrid, Spain but moved to Chile a couple of years ago to lead and Agile transformation for LATAM Airlines.

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Delta takes off with modernized blend of mainframes and cloud

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When it comes to IT, Delta Airlines is climbing higher into the clouds even as it keeps its footing on solid ground. In partnership with AWS, the airlines started migrating many front-end applications and distributed applications that “marry” themselves well to the cloud while retaining traditional back-end workloads on the mainframe. “The

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose?

The Accidental Successful CIO

There is the classic method that has been used for over 40 years called “waterfall” Then there’s the new upstart in town that everyone seems to be flocking to called “agile” All of these options can place a CIO in a difficult place. Say Hello To The New Guy: Agile. Agile also has benefits.

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