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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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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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AI in Short-Term Rentals: How Machine Learning Shapes STR

Altexsoft

The short-term rentals (STR) market has been expanding rapidly in recent years, with popular vacation rental platforms like Airbnb, Booking.com, and VRBO transforming how people travel and lodge. As this industry progresses, property owners and managers constantly search for ways to improve their operations and outpace their competition.

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Building a Better Middleman

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In the previous article , I explored the role of the middleman in a two-sided marketplace. The term “middleman” has a stigma to it. Mostly because, when you sit between two parties that want to interact, it’s easy to get greedy. Greed will bring you profits in the short term. Probably in the long term, as well.

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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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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 3 of 4

Strategy Driven

Many of the elements of planning strategies can be taken off the shelf and implemented when extreme danger presents itself. Many of the elements of planning strategies can be taken off the shelf and implemented when extreme danger presents itself. Most often (85% of the time), they can be heeded, planned for averted.

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