A bold new look inside the trillion-dollar investing revolution currently reshaping how financial products are made and who gets to invest.Most investors and financial advisors believe the market offers endless opportunity. Yet in reality, standard investment products capture only a narrow slice of the real economy. Trillions in value remain locked away—out of reach for all but the ultra-wealthy and major institutions.The good news is that ...

The complete ITaaS Delivery Model™ is the complete guide to implementing IT as a Service (ITaaS) as the foundation of the digital enterprise's IT organization. Thought Leader Philippe Abdoulaye drives the reader step by step across a complete digital transformation journey focused on DevOps and ITaaS. The book provides precious and actionable insights into issues as critical as digital transformation strategy development, cloud service catalog and cloud service requirement developments, IT...

Cloud Computing is the IT services delivery model of the near future. The problem is, there there are very few experts that have hands-on understanding of its competitive and organizational impacts. The vast majority of books address the technical details of cloud, but few emphasize its implementation and deployment at the scale of the enterprise. This book provides the models, concepts, and methodologies you need to be successful in your organization's transition to cloud. Through his 23-...

Digital transformation isn't narrowed to technology and to some extent to technical matters; it's primarily a transformation of two pillars of your business: the operating model and infrastructure. By telling business leaders a different story, stressing IT tools and infrastructure, the major IT vendors aren't helping. In this book of his The Future of Your IT Series™, digital transformation strategist Philippe Abdoulaye shares three of his major articles featured in the prestigious techno...

Mesothelioma used to be a rare disease, but because of the widespread use of asbestos it has now been described as an epidemic around the world. The disease has proven exceptionally resistant to common forms of treatment (chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery). Mesothelioma has a very aggressive natural history with a median survival of around 9 m

The purpose of this book is to define the basis of telemicrosurgery, a new discipline at the border of robotics and microsurgery. After the history of robotics and microsurgery, the robots and their instrumentation will be described. The chapters will explain the training in telemicrosurgery and then propose some experimental paradigms. The first clinical applications for various specialties will be explored. In closing, potential future applications will be discussed.

The world is increasingly becoming interdependent and this interdependency has raised the number of unmistakable vulnerabilities, threats and risks. The institutions of governance in weak and failing states are driving forces that often lead to environmental damage, mismanagement of natural resources, to the expansion of international terrorism, inter-religious violence, transnational organized crime, and to piracy activities that affect energy security in the Gulf of Guinea and Aden. All ...