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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

CIO

With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. How many people, then, make up Radisson’s IT area worldwide?

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Kayak co-leads Life House’s $60M Series C to ‘reimagine’ the hotel experience

TechCrunch

Life House , a boutique hotel brand that has built software aimed at helping independent hotel owners and operators, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding co-led by new investors Kayak and Inovia Capital. Rami Zeidan started Life House after nearly a decade of working in different areas of the hotel industry.

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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. Moreover, IHG’s cloud backbone enables it to take advantage of emerging SaaS offerings, such as Speakeasy AI conversational chatbots, and deliver its own IHG Voice Cloud AI service to help guests and reception desk clerks at hundreds of hotels.

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CIOs set their agendas to achieve IT’s ultimate balancing act

CIO

A business-aligned technology strategy is built on architecture and agility, the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of better alignment,’’ he explains. Truly listening to what the business wants and needs and asking questions while empowering his team to experiment is of paramount importance, agrees Eben Hewitt, CIO of Hyatt Hotels. “My

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Alima aims to build out Latin America’s perishable foods supply chain

TechCrunch

He explained that restaurants, hotels and catering companies typically have to go to crowded markets, negotiate with several vendors, verify the quality of the products and arrange for transportation — often having to drive hours to pick it up themselves. “If That agility in our catalog and SKUs is something we haven’t seen before.”.

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What legacy tech teaches IT leaders about projects that last

CIO

It processes hundreds of thousands of revenue-producing hotel reservations that come in each day. Agility and the new are certainly vital to IT’s remit, but so too are legacy systems, which demonstrate fundamental IT values that these days may be underappreciated. It has never failed.”

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Bliki: Periodic Face-to-Face

Martin Fowler

Compared to this, saving on airplanes and hotels is a false economy. These generated the practices I describe in Using an Agile Software Process with Offshore Development. Neglecting these face-to-faces leads to teams getting stuck, heading off in the wrong direction, plagued with conflict, and people losing motivation.

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