Upping the Ante

Upping the Ante for Political Economy Analysis of the International Financial Institutions

Upping the Ante: Agile Product Development at RAY

Finland’s Slot Machine Association (RAY) has recently undergone a major transformation from a steady operator of slot machines to an agile innovator of new games and concepts. As a key part of this transformation, agile methods used in product development teams have been scaled up to the organizational level using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). To help analyze the development in the organizatio...

Upping the Ante for “Best of Breed” Machine Translation Providers

The notion of “best of breed” among value-added machine translation technology providers is generally defined as providing access to the single best commercially available machine translation engine for each language pair. This paper describes the efforts of Amikai, Inc. to go beyond that definition of best of breed. Rather than relying on a single engine for each pair, we have written a progra...

Upping the game for OR cleaning with monitoring and partnerships.

Enculturation: Steven Best and Douglas Kellner

Rap music has emerged as one of the most distinctive and controversial music genres of the past decade. A significant part of hip hop culture, [1] rap articulates the experiences and conditions of African-Americans living in a spectrum of marginalized situations ranging from racial stereotyping and stigmatizing to struggle for survival in violent ghetto conditions. In this cultural context, rap...