Book Review: 'Transformation, Designed..'

'Transformation, Designed: [ ]evolution Within' by Juan Jose de la Torre

 This book identifies design as a challenge that confronts big corporations, who have to constantly compete with fast, lean companies and an emerging array of startups. Or, design is the one that can show and teach the need of transforming an enterprise.

 The book begins in 1999 with the institution of world wide web and the unlimited possibilities that followed, mostly ushering in a shift in approach towards the digital. And the impactful part, design did, and continues to play, is highlighted. What follows are case studies that tell how, such steps are transforming Apple, Starbucks, Disney, and others.

 The book concludes by equating design with intention. One should show a want for whatever one may hope to get or accomplish. Now, a set of self-examination questions are also there to guide one to a path of digital revolution.

 

Book Review: Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine

National Academy of Medicine - An Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine says: "The necessity it is to harmonize the existing principles, and to address the identified gaps". This book elaborates the background of this issue, where it mentions that the recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have unlocked unprecedented opportunities in health, health care, and biomedical science, and that these breakthroughs hold the potential to fundamentally transform our approaches to all aspects of medicine and health. Hence, the objective of the AI Code of Conduct (AICC) project is to harmonize the existing principles, and address the identified gaps,

The book then lists the Code Principles and Code Commitments and elucidate guiding principles for responsible AI in the health care and biomedical science domains. It also identifies and describes activities that are amenable to collaboration, consolidation, and centralization, like Loose-Tight-Loose leadership model. In conclusion, it likens AI to another powerful tool, a hammer, which brings out the duality of utility and intent guiding its deployment.

Book Review: Own your own divorce

 Own your own divorce by Laurence Wilson, JD, introduces divorces as unique stories, each one being potentially different from every other one.

Part I of this book impresses upon us the need to be ready with a resolve to face the worst, right from the start itself. Next part looks at the mechanisms that make a couple. Like identifying each component of social life, like expressions, and mixing those in an appropriate ratio. Part III discusses different aspects of wealth and its impact on relationships. Next two parts trace the complex path, all this can cause to one's life. Now comes part VI, and the book starts.discussing ways to navigate breakups and patch-ups. And the last part, part VII, dwells on all those practical aspects of relevance, like litigation. 

Whether one's choice is, doing it yourself, mediation, collaboration, or litigation, this book can act as an eye-opener. It will advise them to channel, what worked well during their marriage to landing into an amicable divorce. With self-examination questions and navigation tips, this book can act as a guide for couples who are on a low, whether to part, or to re-unite with added gusto.