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How could SouthWest Airlines spend A Billion Dollars for IT Modernisation

Rmukesh Gupta

One of the biggest news story this last Christmas season was the cascading effect of flights being cancelled by Southwest Airlines. According to their SEC filing, they had to cancel more than 16700 flights over the holiday period in December, costing them an estimated $725million-$825 million.

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The Risks of Sticking with Legacy Technology

Daniel Burrus

Legacy technology is like that old pair of jeans you wore as a teenager. Move that anecdote onto a larger stage and you have a fairly accurate picture of why many organizations hold on to legacy technology—tools that are long outdated: comfort. In a world of exponential change, legacy technology is trouble. Compliance penalties.

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The implementation of the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework?

Paul Hobcraft

Organizations in today’s business environment need to adapt rapidly and dynamically, the need to bring the innovation management process is a constant technological advancement. Highlight their positive outcomes, such as increased innovation efficiency, improved customer satisfaction, and market leadership.

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Visionary Thinking: How Leaders Shape the Future

Phil McKinney

Leadership is at the center of every successful organization. Visionary Thinking vs. Traditional Leadership Approaches Traditional leadership approaches are focused on maintaining the status quo, maximizing profits in the short term, and minimizing risks. Steve Jobs (Apple Inc.):

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The Dangers of Legacy Thinking

Daniel Burrus

Legacy Technology—Dangerous but Also Diverting. Legacy thinking has a better-known cousin—legacy technology. The issue of legacy technology is old news—in more ways than one. As you probably know, legacy technology refers to old forms of technology that are simply no longer optimal. Legacy Thinking Defined.

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Using The Both/And Principle To Increase Trust

Daniel Burrus

We are only scratching the surface of how one can utilize accelerated Hard Trends in technology to increase trust as customers return to physical locations of businesses around the world. How To Elevate Trust With Technology. There are many emerging technologies that can help provide an elevated level of safety and trust.

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Practicing for an emerging future

Jeffrey Phillips

I'll address this more shortly, but as the pace of change increases, as we have more interaction and more trade, as there is more and more widely dispersed technology, the future will be different than today. Many, many shifts happen because of extraneous forces, and many of those aren't the introduction of new knowledge or technologies.