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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO Business Intelligence

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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How Southwest’s CIO modernized the airline through turbulent times

CIO Business Intelligence

Taking the helm as CIO is a major transition for any IT leader, but Lauren Woods’ experience at Southwest Airlines stands apart. I ended up leaning on my partners in the business and learning so much from them about how our airline worked and what it was like on the operational side,” she says. We’re a better airline for it,” she says.

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Tech Moves: WTIA elects new board leadership; Adriane Brown joins American Airlines board

GeekWire

Seattle venture capitalist Adriane Brown is joining the board of American Airlines Group, one of the largest airlines in the world. Other recent Tech Moves from across the Pacific Northwest: Former Boeing Chairman and CEO Phil Condit joined the board of Colorado-based Boom Supersonic, which is developing a supersonic airliner.

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As mainframe application development grows, so does the security risk

CIO Business Intelligence

Mainframe systems process a vast amount of vital transactions daily—that includes everything from the swipe of a credit card at the grocery store to purchasing an airline ticket online or accessing sensitive healthcare information.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Which software development methodology is best? As a CIO I suspect that you are well aware that there are a number of different ways that your IT teams can go about developing software (and doing a lot of other things). Each agile cycle focuses on continuous improvement in the development of a product or service.

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It’s Time to Demystify Hybrid Clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s the vision at Canada Jetlines , a startup airline that began with a cloud-native strategy. James Cham, a partner at Bloomberg Beta , will offer a venture fund perspective on changes to watch in software development, deriving value from big data, and a view into the role of AI.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Reliable computing Trustworthy systems have always been the goal for developers but lately some high-profile events are convincing some IT managers that better architectures and practices are necessary. Developers are re-evaluating their microservice and massive monolayers with an eye toward understanding how and when they collapse.

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