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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 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. 30, “We’re behind.

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Examining Mr Price Group’s search to modernize

CIO

For modern CIOs, it’s essential to have a healthy balance between innovation and mainstream tech, says Kim Sim, Mr Price Group CIO. This ability to maintain perspective of two different worlds is critical for Sim, who inherited a highly complex legacy environment and is currently in the process of modernizing these systems.

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Revolutionizing Business Operations with Future-Fit Software

Tandem

For a business to progress towards future readiness and modern application development, it must dispense with this belief and restructure around processes that promote agility and recognize the reality that investment in software will be a continual process. Swift reconfiguration necessitates a shift in mindset and culture.

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Off the Shelf vs Custom Software: Making the Right Choice for Your Business

Trigent

Here’s all that you need to make an informed choice on off the shelf vs custom software. While doing so, they have two choices – to buy a ready-made off-the-shelf solution created for the mass market or get a custom software designed and developed to serve their specific needs and requirements.

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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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What Do CIOs Have To Know About Business Intelligence?

The Accidental Successful CIO

These BI tools access and analyze data sets and present analytical findings in reports, summaries, dashboards, graphs, charts and maps designed to provide users with detailed intelligence about the state of the business. The challenge that CIOs are facing is how best to make use of these new tools? How many customers have we gained this month?

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10 Reasons Why Costa Rica is the Ideal Place to Outsource Software Development

Gorilla Logic

The leadership team at Gorilla Logic had extensive experience outsourcing software development projects to countries like India and the Ukraine. However, for Agile development projects that require ongoing communication and collaboration within a similar time zone, offshoring can hinder project velocity. Download our guide.