Digital transformation is a top priority in industries around the world. And no wonder: successful digital transformation enables companies to understand the context of specific customer interactions and equips them with the power to redefine their market, re-engage customers, reconfigure their cost base, and reimagine business models. However, simply undergoing a technology transformation does not guarantee the desired outcomes. In order to survive and future-proof their business, companies must get digital 'right'.A recent survey found that only 8 percent of global enterprises consider themselves digitally transformed, with 23 percent still in the early stages of digital transformation. Businesses that successfully transform are in the top quartile of their industries, but those that do not risk the threat of disruption.To better understand the gap between expectations and outcomes when companies undergo digital change, EXL Service partnered with Harvard Business Review (HBR) to … [Read more...] about Top reasons businesses suffer digital failure – and how to avoid them
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‘The Endless’ review: Brothers revisit their childhood cult in search for meaning
Some directors need $100 million to make a movie, while others are more resourceful than MacGyver: Give them a camera, a location and the cost of one year's tuition at an Ivy League school, and they can make magic. Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson are just such wizards of ingenuity, to the extent that their latest, "The Endless," devises an elaborate supernatural premise they can pull off with minimal special effects, counting among its many surprises the clever way it loops back around to their debut, "Resolution," considerably expanding the scope and audacity of their micro-budget universe in the process.The film is the sort of brain-teaser that serves up a sequence of bizarre (and occasionally hokey) set pieces, only some of which it ultimately deigns to explain, keeping the audience guessing about a paranormal mystery that involves cults, time travel and some sort of ambiguous Lovecraftian monster.In the first of many unexpected twists, "The Endless" casts its writer-director duo … [Read more...] about ‘The Endless’ review: Brothers revisit their childhood cult in search for meaning
Review: BIG FISH & BEGONIA, Chinese Animation Dazzles in Sumptuous and Mystical Feature
Hailed as the Chinese answer to the fantastical works of beloved Japanese animation house, Studio Ghibli, the independently produced feature Big Fish & Begonia channels ancient wisdom into a dazzling animated canvas. Enhancing the overall production value of the film, hand-drawn characters blend with 3D backgrounds to create a seamlessly rendered world that is at once magical and harsh, but always governed by the notion that every actions has consequences. Chun, the central figure in directors Liang Xuan and Zhang Ohun’s pioneering box-office hit, is a young girl, whose existence is somewhere in between that of human and a God, and lives in a gorgeous land that exists underneath ours. Our oceans are their skies. Everyone who lives here is a powerful being that controls a specific part of nature in our world. Some rule over the tide, others handcraft our weather, and Chun is in charge of begonias; however, her powers grant her superhuman qualities. As a rite of passage, all … [Read more...] about Review: BIG FISH & BEGONIA, Chinese Animation Dazzles in Sumptuous and Mystical Feature
Lakefront Hammond data center could be transformative
Last year, a record $20 billion was invested in data centers nationwide to keep up with the growing number of YouTube videos, Instagram photos, Wikipedia entries, social media profiles, smart devices, ebooks, streamed movies and binge-watched shows that proliferate each and every day. Though it's digital, that episode of "Stranger Things" or "The Crown" next on your Netflix queue has to be stored on a computer server somewhere. All those likes, retweets and harvested demographic data end up housed in cabinets full of computer hardware.Multi-tenant data center space under construction in the United States doubled to 294.1 megawatts in 2017, up from 149.4 megawatts the previous year, according to the North American Data Centers Data Center Real Estate Review. However, leasing activity slowed in the Chicago area, one of the national hubs of data storage, because of a lack of available inventory.Enter Indianapolis attorney Tom Dakich and New York City-based data center … [Read more...] about Lakefront Hammond data center could be transformative
Review: Image Comics’ Miyazaki-Inspired ISOLA #1 Is Beautiful and Intriguing
Fans of Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kerschl have eagerly anticipated their new series from Image Comics, ISOLA, since its announcement at Image Expo 2016. The fantasy story, about a soldier escorting her queen (currently in the form of a turquoise-striped tiger) on a perilous journey to a mythic underworld island, has drawn comparisons to the work of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. Fletcher and Kerschl have spoken of Miyazaki’s influence on their work, so this is not by happenstance. ISOLA’s thematic and aesthetic homages to films like Princess Mononoke, full of fantastical creatures and a foreboding sense of danger, are thoughtfully crafted aspects of its world-building and storytelling. Silent moments that give stories a little breathing room and allow audiences to fully immerse themselves in lush details are a hallmark of Miyazaki films. ISOLA’s opening scenes use this technique, quietly coaxing readers into the tale rather than thrusting us into a loud, explosive action … [Read more...] about Review: Image Comics’ Miyazaki-Inspired ISOLA #1 Is Beautiful and Intriguing