Digital transformation

"The acquisition will scale Wipro Digital's offering for Chief Marketing Officers (CMO), connecting Rational Interaction's ability to map and orchestrate the customer journey with Wipro Digital's ability to design and build experiences at global scale," a statement said. … [Read more...] about Wipro Digital acquires Rational Interaction

Sometimes when you have a true dream idea—a new opportunity you feel is vital for long-term strategic growth but one that doesn’t fit in your company’s priorities even if they have an incubator program—it takes a clean break from your current role to achieve that vision. In the past, this might have led to a permanent parting of ways. The company would lose a talented contributor and the employee lost access to the company’s leadership and IP. … [Read more...] about What happened when I left my job to be an entrepreneur and my former employer acquired my company

Situ’s report is a haunting collision of design, technology, human rights, and the most explosive and intractable conflict in the world. Forensic architecture is a highly specialized field in which architects offer up their expert opinions on everything from construction accidents to building leaks; usually there’s some sort of litigation involved. Here, in a combat zone where violence is the rule, not the exception, the work takes on grave new import. … [Read more...] about Architects Use 3-D Tools to Uncover a Murder

The architects kept track of the sounds the inmates mentioned in interviews, then would replicate them using computer software. In one video, they play Abdou a clip of footsteps and ask if the guards walked faster or slower, in an effort to estimate the distance of the corridors based on the number of footsteps and the pace of the guards. They also play him an echo of water dripping—a sound that all the prisoners mention as maddening, particularly during days they were being deprived of water. The loudness of the echo depended on the number of people in the cell, Abdou replies. But by identifying the loudness of the echo and the number of people in the cell, Abdou could help the architects estimate the size of the cell that was too dark for Abdou to accurately describe. … [Read more...] about How Forensic Architecture Revealed Details Of A Secret Military Prison In Syria

Many of Lenovo’s suppliers have already committed to high ethical and environmental standards through organizations such as the Responsible Business Alliance and Responsible Minerals Initiative. Even so, Jesseph says that Lenovo occasionally asks them to modify their practices. “Some of them can make changes rather quickly,” he says. “But we use a lot of materials inside the chassis, like rare-earth elements, metal, plastics, and carbon-fiber-reinforced polymers, so some of [the changes] can take longer.” … [Read more...] about What the world’s largest computer company is doing to help combat climate change