Caught in a Catch-22, you need to ask yourself: How can I change this scenario in a true-to-life and lasting way?
Researchers at ETH Zurich are working to change that scenario, as they're currently developing a "self-reconfigurable" device that packs a glue gun for creating the tools it needs on the fly.
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But the Army plans to change that poor-fitting scenario by field-testing new female body armor starting next summer.
Even this scenario of modest change and modest improvement is subject to doubt.
In such a scenario, corporate executives can change what their business model is, and systems can respond quickly.
While communicating workforce reductions is a worst case scenario, delivering messages about any change in the workforce is never easy.
Scholarships, jobs and industrial production fell in virtually all countries, a scenario that shows no signs of change in the coming months.
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We nevertheless do not recommend buying RIM to play the above scenario before getting some evidence that a major change (credible activism, change in management attitude) is underway.
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But the most likely scenario is for the cash to keep piling up, awaiting a change in the U.S. tax code.
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This is the scenario that Mr Obama's measures are intended to influence and change.
In order to stay ahead of the trends, we have examined this scenario from several angles, with emphasis on how we expect our current managers to navigate the change.
Given the ubiquity of scenario planning, why do so many businesses find themselves playing catch-up when their market environments change?
"Six Degrees", by leading environmental campaigner Mark Lynas, sounds a red alert for the health of the planet, charting degree-by-degree the likely consequences of rising temperatures up to the worst-case scenario 5.8 degrees Celsius (10 degrees Fahrenheit) rise envisaged by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2001 report.
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