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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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Report: Technical Debt is Costing You More Than You Think

OverOps

Many organizations have been struggling to understand not only the cost of downtime, but how to quantify the quality of their software and what the cost is of poor quality code. A new report from the Consortium for IT Software Quality ( 1 ) covers the cost of poor software quality, shedding light on those topics. ?? NEW POST ??

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

CIO

The challenges of managing IT in a foreign land Adjusting to a new environment, motivating team members, and earning trust are challenges all expat CIOs confront. Similarly, CLP had a lot of custom development for its transmission and distribution business. PoCs take a lot of time,” he says.

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Don’t Try This at Home: Leave ADM to the Professionals

Datavail

Several remarkable internet glitches occurred in 2021, all of which underscore how important it is to have a highly trained, well-skilled application development and management (ADM) team overseeing and protecting your digital operations. The development environment also needs to suit the app in question and its anticipated functions.

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Reinvention Risk Trade

The Agile Manager

Southwest Airlines has made headlines in recent days for all the wrong reasons: bad weather impacted air travel, which required Southwest to adjust plane and crew schedules. Investible, yes, especially since it is more than just an investment that makes the business less bad than it need be. Business is risk.

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How to Build a Travel App?

Existek

How to start travel app development. Travel app development cost. Travel app development has opened so many opportunities for both customers and businesses. Discovering the question of how to build a travel app, teams have a chance to choose among a wide variety of solutions. List of the content. Why build a travel app.

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The future of European cybersecurity is autonomous

CIO

In a stark warning, Tanium’s Cybersecurity in Europe report spells out the current threat level in no uncertain terms. “[Across Europe] we are seeing breaches in all industries, from airlines to retail, from banking to manufacturing. And the pace of attacks is increasing.” It’s being rolled out as we speak.

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