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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

But Southwest’s technology was also cited by experts and the company’s leadership as contributing to the calamity. “IT 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. 30, “We’re behind.

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Transforming IT culture for business success

CIO

In lieu of integrating and customizing off-the-shelf enterprise applications such as Salesforce or SAP, Power Home Remodeling has constructed its own proprietary NITRO platform used to run and optimize all aspects of the business and customer experience. Back in the day, IT culture was all about the perks.

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Taktile raises $20M to help fintech companies test and deploy decision-making models

TechCrunch

The two met while studying at Harvard and were both a part of the leadership team at QuantCo, a company building AI-powered apps for enterprise customers. This means that if a head of credit, for example, wants to make a change to the lending criteria, they have to raise a ticket with the IT department. ” Image Credits: Taktile.

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How Can CIOs Avoid Wasting Their Budget?

The Accidental Successful CIO

All too often they end up building something new rather than buying off the shelf. It is the role of the person with the CIO job to make sure that their company has access to the technology that everyone needs in order to do their job most efficiently. However, this is where things can start to get a bit complicated.

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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. When Richard Ventre got an opportunity to move to India from the Netherlands, he latched on to it. “We

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Revolutionizing Business Operations with Future-Fit Software

Tandem

It’s not a surprise then that the discussions in many IT departments center around future-fit software and contemporary application development frameworks. It’s not a surprise then that the discussions in many IT departments center around future-fit software and contemporary application development frameworks.

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Book review: Accelerate

Henrik Warne

DevOps in this context means things like continuous delivery, automated tests, trunk-based development, and proactive monitoring of system health. Many aspects of software development are hard to measure. One key finding of the research is that there is no trade-off between tempo and stability. Software Delivery Performance.