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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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How Custom Healthcare Software Development Can Help Hospitals

Sunflower Lab

Because of this, software companies are working hard to create custom healthcare software development products. But not just any products, these custom software developments must offer specific features and services to properly serve healthcare providers—because when someone’s life is on the line, there’s no time to waste.

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Motivated Team Of Mission Focused Technologists From Software AG Wins Rapid Integration Challenge of Plugfest

CTOvision

By ChrisScott Plugfest is a new phenomenon in the national security technology community, where participants compete in judged evaluations showing how well (and fast) they can create trusted situational awareness in a chaotic/realistic scenario using off the shelf software and existing data sets/streams. Precious time is wasted.

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5 Benefits of Custom E-Learning Software for Companies

KitelyTech

Custom e-learning software can be extremely beneficial for companies of all sizes, as it enables employees to learn during the onboarding process, as well as for professional development opportunities. You won’t have to include generic content from the software developer that your employee don’t need. Meet Your Specific Needs.

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The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition

James Shore

For this week’s Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream , I have a special show for you: the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The Art of Agile Development came out in 2007. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development. and now it’s time for an update.

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

CIO

Brian Ferris, chief data, analytics, and technology officer, Loyalty NZ Brian Ferris / Loyalty NZ Assumptions about technology development being at the same level in different countries, for example, often prove wrong. When Richard Ventre got an opportunity to move to India from the Netherlands, he latched on to it. “We

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO

It’s already showing up in the top 20 shadow IT SaaS apps tracked by Productiv for business users and developers alike. In the shaper model, you’re leveraging existing foundational models, off the shelf, but retraining them with your own data.” As so often happens with new technologies, the question is whether to build or buy.