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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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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary.

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Automating the Automators: Shift Change in the Robot Factory

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

What would you say is the job of a software developer? A layperson, an entry-level developer, or even someone who hires developers will tell you that job is to … well … write software. ” I, thankfully, learned this early in my career, at a time when I could still refer to myself as a software developer. .”

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

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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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Psychological Safety And Scrum Teams: How To Create A High-Performance Environment

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Psychological Safety And Scrum Teams: How To Create A High-Performance Environment. Psychological Safety has certainly earned its place on the buzzword shelf. Organizations have gravitated toward this concept because they want to address a challenge around creativity, innovation, and basic team formation. . For example: .

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50 Essential Strategies For Creating A Successful Web 2.0 Product

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

I am fortunate enough to spend a lot of time looking at various online products and services in the development stage, mostly of the Web 2.0 variety, meaning they use one or more of the principles in the Web 2.0 set of practices. However, most of the success of an online product, Web 2.0

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Responsible JavaScript: Part III

A List Apart

When websites fail to perform the way we as designers and developers expect them to, we inevitably turn on ourselves: “What are we failing to do?” “What can we do with the code we have written?” You’ve done everything you thought was possible to address your website’s JavaScript problem. You relied on the web platform where you could.