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A CIO’s gift guide for IT and business colleagues

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Here’s your CIO holiday season shopping list for your IT and business colleagues, as well as your loved ones (and even yourself): For the Head of App Dev: A methodology that’s designed for the work App Dev actually does, which isn’t developing applications. The usual candidates are Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Development. But that’s okay.

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A CIO’s gift guide for IT and business colleagues

CIO

Here’s your CIO holiday season shopping list for your IT and business colleagues, as well as your loved ones (and even yourself): For the Head of App Dev: A methodology that’s designed for the work App Dev actually does, which isn’t developing applications. The usual candidates are Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Development. But that’s okay.

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Generative AI is a make-or-break moment for CIOs

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Hardly a day goes by without some new business-busting development on generative AI surfacing in the media. Doing so requires developing use cases based on a deep understanding of the unit economics of gen AI, the resources needed to capture those benefits, and the feasibility of executing the work given existing capabilities.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO

Some prospective projects require custom development using large language models (LLMs), but others simply require flipping a switch to turn on new AI capabilities in enterprise software. “AI We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says. “We We want to maintain discipline and go deep.”

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

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. While weather may have been the root cause, the 16,000 flights canceled between Dec. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts.

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Low code/no code tools reap IT benefits—with caveats

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Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. This approach is especially valuable given the shortage of skilled developers.

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Custom Software Development Services & Modern Practices

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Custom software development plays an important role in taking your project to the next level. Custom software development gives your business the flexibility and compatibility to scale up or down and tailor it to your needs. The alternative, off-the-shelf software could be inefficient or inadequate.