Features February 2019

You’re a single parent living in rural Georgia. Like many people in similar circumstances, you’re strapped for cash and a college degree is your ticket out of poverty. But driving an hour or two for classes several times a week? And paying for child care while you make the trips? Out of the question. Never […]

If you ask Youri Assi Antonin, he’ll tell you the world’s most impressive technology isn’t artificial intelligence or fusion power. It’s not neural networking or molecular assemblers. It’s not even the Hubble Space Telescope, a machine so powerful it can see galaxies 13 billion light years away. Indeed, it’s something far more advanced—and beautiful. “The […]

This is Olive. Olive is an expert at creating purchase orders for the sourcing department. While you’re here, take a moment to meet Catherine. She reviews documents from hundreds of suppliers for incorrect delivery dates and other discrepancies. Oh, and we can’t forget Amy, who provides real-time chat support to employees across the company. Each […]

There’s the robust 1:1 initiative, launched with the goal of giving every K-12 student their own personal laptop. Inside the classrooms, new rotational learning models, where students engage in multiple course-related activities, are reinventing the old class period paradigm. All of it backed by a state-of-the-art WAN network. When L. Dallas Wooten surveys the IT […]

As one of the largest retailers of eyeglasses in Latin America, Devlyn Holdings would be expected to have long-term vision, which a couple of years ago made it the ideal landing spot for its equally farsighted CIO Victor Alfonso Mendivil. For prior to him coming aboard in July 2016, Devlyn Holdings had already launched an […]

Imagine you’re an archaeologist extracting an artifact that’s been hidden in dirt for millennia. Gently, you brush away the dust. Laboriously, you use precision tools to pry it free, bit by bit. Tenderly you lift it, inspecting it from all angles. But you’re not in the sweltering, dust-choked standard of an archaeological dig site—you’re in […]

As much as any of the vivid stories and stressful clinical situations, Dr. Chris Leonard remembers the countless hours of paperwork. During his years as a resident and working general surgeon, Leonard would routinely flip through files and medical charts, reconciling data and compiling information—any information—that might help him treat his patient’s wound. Often overlooked, […]

In the uptime department of Navistar’s Mexico City offices, an employee scrolls through the truck repair database and immediately catches a red flag. One of the company’s ProStar trucks has been in a Guadalajara shop for four days—a day longer than expected. Within a few clicks, they’ve uncovered the reason for the delay: a hard-to-find […]

One company supplies jet fuel to 70 bases and terminals throughout the United States. Another is responsible for warehousing industrial fluid in million-gallon tanks for dozens of seaside facilities. There’s a Hawaiian natural gas company and a cutting-edge wind and solar energy company. Together, these businesses are serviced by one company: MIC Global Services. All […]

Going full growth mode in the very competitive hospitality industry, Karisma Hotels & Resorts recognizes the young tourist as the most desired demographic. Satisfy him or her in Cancun and that customer may be inclined to pursue their next R&R at a Karisma lodging elsewhere in the tropics. Maybe even in the Balkans. As the […]