"This to our knowledge is the first cloak that really addresses getting the transformation exactly right to get you that perfect invisibility, " Prof Smith told BBC News.

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Recently, I was in a meeting where the CIO of an organization undergoing IT transformation shared that keeping the right perspective is the key to getting through with the ups and downs facing the IT teams during the change accompanying transformation.

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But he now believed that it could best play that role by getting other nations to work with it to effect a global transformation.

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She spoke about the transformation of the neighborhood that began with a few neighbors getting together to clean up their blocks and enlisting many neighbors and finally the help of the city.

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"This confirms that although transformation is slow, we are getting there, " she said of South Africa's shift to a multi-racial society.

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