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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

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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B2B Travel Platform For Corporate Travel Management

Altexsoft

With airlines such as United and American shifting content away from legacy Global Distribution System (GDS) channels towards their own platforms and NDC-enabled channels, businesses relying on traditional GDS systems face a challenge. Corporate travel management comes with its unique set of needs and challenges. Legacy GDS limitations.

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

CIO

When Richard Ventre got an opportunity to move to India from the Netherlands, he latched on to it. “We We live in a world that is more global than ever before and it is important to experience different cultures, customs, and traditions,” he says. Oman offers a good work culture, lifestyle, and the salary is not taxed,” Pant says. “It

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The CIO and M&A, Part I

The Agile Manager

M&A is a great process for creating fees for bankers, and for destroying the value held by shareholders." -- John Authers, writing in the Financial Times Industries tend to go through waves of deal-making. This is something H-P did in the late 1990s , and is about to do again. IT is at the center of deal synergy.

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Friction

LeanEssays

One third of the fuel that goes into a car is spent overcoming friction. By comparison, an electric car loses half as much energy - one sixth - to friction. Who knew electric cars had such an advantage? Friction is the force that resists motion when the surface of one object comes into contact with the surface of another. More cognitive load.