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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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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. Reynolds is now chief scientist, developing the startup’s millimeter-wave sensing and imaging technologies. At Dell, she was global executive director of strategy and corporate development.

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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). It all begins with the waterfall approach to developing software.

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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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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

The main constituency: Any developer who will happily trade a bit of precision for a big savings in electricity. 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.

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NASCO data breach exposes 800k users

Dataconomy

Understanding the MOVEit hack and its widespread impact This security breach was carried out through a zero-day exploit, a cyberattack taking advantage of a vulnerability unknown to software developers or antivirus providers. This exploit allows attackers to spot and exploit system vulnerabilities before they are addressed.

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The jobs Americans want

Vox

The rise in interest for jobs as airline pilots and flight attendants coincides with the return to travel and a bit of chaos in the air travel industry. Additionally, a number of budget carriers have come on the scene since the start of the pandemic, adding even more demand for flight crews.