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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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B2B Travel Platform For Corporate Travel Management

Altexsoft

With airlines such as United and American shifting content away from legacy Global Distribution System (GDS) channels towards their own platforms and NDC-enabled channels, businesses relying on traditional GDS systems face a challenge. Corporate travel management comes with its unique set of needs and challenges. Legacy GDS limitations.

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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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Sentiment Analysis in Hotel Reviews: Developing a Decision-Making Assistant for Travelers

Altexsoft

How long does it take an average traveler to pick up a hotel? As far as we know, no scientific research is getting done to answer this question. Yet, the real-life experience clearly shows that people spend hours and even days sifting through dozens if not hundreds of options. What is sentiment analysis in brief. I disliked the hotel” is negative.

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Technical Feasibility in Software Engineering: Things to Consider Before Development Starts

Altexsoft

Yet it inevitably takes into account and depends on the available budget, timeframes, legal constraints, and post-development operations (support and maintenance.). In 2021, to the great disappointment of space exploration fans, NASA postponed a long-awaited return to the Moon by at least a year. Five types of feasibility to be explored.

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Friction

LeanEssays

One third of the fuel that goes into a car is spent overcoming friction. By comparison, an electric car loses half as much energy - one sixth - to friction. Who knew electric cars had such an advantage? Friction is the force that resists motion when the surface of one object comes into contact with the surface of another. More cognitive load.

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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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