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A CIO’s gift guide for IT and business colleagues

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No, App Dev is more often responsible for configuring and integrating COTS (on-premises-installed commercial off-the-shelf software) and SaaS (cloud-hosted commercial off-the-shelf software) solutions. Welcome to the holiday season. I just like to think I was ahead of my time by being behind in my shopping.

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A CIO’s gift guide for IT and business colleagues

CIO

No, App Dev is more often responsible for configuring and integrating COTS (on-premises-installed commercial off-the-shelf software) and SaaS (cloud-hosted commercial off-the-shelf software) solutions. Welcome to the holiday season. I just like to think I was ahead of my time by being behind in my shopping.

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

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Examples include GitHub Copilot, an off-the-shelf solution to generate code, or Adobe Firefly, which assists designers with image generation and editing. Hardly a day goes by without some new business-busting development on generative AI surfacing in the media. There are two common approaches for Shapers.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

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We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says. “We We’ve established an AI working group with representatives across technology, architecture, data, security, legal, risk, and audit consisting of both technical practitioners and business users to develop AI-use best practices and a governance framework,” says Nafde.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

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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. So there’s a lot in the plus column, but there are reasons to be cautious, too.

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IBM and AWS Create a Path to Modernization Via Industry-Specific Solutions

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Modernization journeys are complex and typically highly custom, dependent on an enterprise’s core business challenges and overall competitive goals. Yet one way to simplify transformation and accelerate the process is using an industry-specific approach. Consider the critical area of security controls, for example.

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