A collection of random observations, events, situations, news items, people, stories and the bric à brac of daily life that you may find either funny (ha-ha), funny (peculiar), thought-provoking, beyond belief or just plain silly, which illustrate what a mad, mad, mad, mad world we live in.

A roadmap and best practices that allow firms to leverage existing assets and pinpoint areas where new capabilities must be developed.Useful, clear-eyed framework: Gupta has an HBS- and real-world-tested framework to help readers know where to begin.Freshly told stories that illustrate real business dilemmas: Gupta uses stories of well-known companies told with a new twist to bring home his point while also using lesser known examples to keep things fresh....

Digital transformation is no longer news—it's a necessity.Despite the widespread threat of disruption, many large companies in traditional industries have succeeded at digitizing their businesses in truly transformative ways. The New York Times, formerly a bastion of traditional media, has created a thriving digital product behind a carefully designed paywall. Best Buy has transformed its business in the face of Amazon's threat. John Deere has formed a dat...

Delhi High Court Bar Association, accomplishing much to improve India’s prison systems, from introducing Special Courts within the prisons to initiating video conferencing connections between jails and the court. He has also fought for gender equality within the prison system by ensuring that women are availed the same privileges of semi-open and open jail which are availed to men. His efforts have earned him the India Vision Award for his achievements in the field of Prison Reforms and Ad...

The book "AI-Enabled Healthcare Security: Safeguarding Patient Data and Improving Outcomes" focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in enhancing healthcare security and improving patient outcomes. It covers the challenges and risks associated with cybersecurity threats in the healthcare industry and explores the use of AI-based cybersecurity solutions, machine learning algorithms, and predictive analytics to mitigate those risks.The book is intended for healthcare profession...

Life can be Beautiful is a cute love story of a father and his 6-year-old daughter. As a father, Sanjay tries to give his best to his loving daughter Anju despite all odds that come his way. The story highlights on the best Diwali they celebrate even when their house is in darkness. The turmoils in Sanjay's life, how he overcomes them, how his friends and family help him for the noble cause he starts. It is a beautiful journey of Anju from her childhood to her dream of being a NASA Scienti...

Digital twin technology has been rapidly evolving and gaining popularity in various fields such as manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and transportation. Digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical system or process that enables real-time monitoring, analysis, and optimization.This book will provide a comprehensive understanding of digital twin technology, its advancements, and applications. It will be useful for researchers, academics, practitioners, and students who ar...

Clinical Data Quality Checks for CDISC Compliance using SAS is the first book focused on identifying and correcting data quality and CDISC compliance issues with real-world innovative SAS programming techniques such as Proc SQL, metadata and macro programming. Learn to master Proc SQL’s subqueries and summary functions for multi-tasking process. Drawing on his more than 25 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, the author provides a unique approach that empowers...

Living on the 'Adge' in Jhande Walan Thompson is a Bill-Bryson-esque tale of Sunil Gupta's twenty-three-year-long expedition Through the Looking Glass in the madcap wonderland of Indian advertising. A delightful and quirky narrative with a wonderful cast of characters and companies (a virtual who's who of advertising and marketing), inimitable descriptions and hilarious episodes, it presents a valuable and irreverent history of the growth and development of an increasingly important and ye...

Final Innings is the story of five tumultuous years in the life of a successful and internationally admired Indian cricketer, Ramdas Upreti. It explores the depths of human desire and disillusionment, hope and regret, love and longing, and deep passions. Above all it is a story of extraordinary courage in the teeth of danger and adversity.A combination of extraordinary circumstances and coincidences on and off the cricket field conspire to rekindle Ramdas’ obsessions with c...

Urdu Shaayari is the most popular genre of Urdu writing and is often the first exposure to the Urdu language for most of us. One can read Shaayari in Urdu or in English or in Hindi. Many of the Urdu words used in Shaayari may be familiar to Indians for whom Urdu is not the first language. But one often comes across unfamiliar words (and phrases or compound words) the meaning of which are not known. And these unfamiliar words rob the entire sher of its magic!The vast majority of wor...

Healthcare has become an extremely important and relevant topic in day to day discussions ever since the COVID-19 pandemic has been encountered by the global population. This has led to a renewed focus and attention that researchers from every discipline have put in to realize better strategies for healthcare management in general. This book is an attempt to put to use recent advancements in the field of the Internet of Medical Things often called IoMT, which is an extension of IoT for rea...