This takes us into serious crunching - and we have to look to people who've studied the problem on a big scale.
He says this will create regional jobs, increase resource security, reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, increase material efficiency and prevent carbon emissions and industrial waste - all on a big scale.
Our first virtual town hall of the hour is in Kokomo, Indiana, population 45, 000, four Chrysler plants, Delphi electronics, manufacturing on a big scale, but in a sector, cars, that's shrinking.
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Just being the head of a network and working on such a big scale, there is a sense of sometimes you think about the marketing first, or external people are looking for things to monetize and exploit.
Taken as merely a big-scale summer blockbuster viewed by audiences with little emotional attachment to the world of Star Trek, it is pretty much a success and a more enjoyable film that the last go-around.
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And there could be retailing of equity stakes - that is, aimed at the small-scale investor wanting to take a punt on a small-scale company with a big idea.
But Mr Legrain has a gift for combining big numbers that offer a sense of the scale of the global build-up in things like household debt while zeroing in on what all this means for people like Thorvaldur Thorvaldsson, a proudly left-wing Icelandic carpenter and unlikely sometime property speculator.
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This is a big deal for more than finance, because if we must find new approaches to problems like energy or poverty, at a scale that only big organizations can manage.
But we also must look for big ideas on a small scale that can provide viable livelihoods for those in the greatest need while creating incentives to preserve the most threatened habitats in the world.
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Connected to the hotel by a newly built bridge and VIP lounge in between, the full-scale tent staged a few big performers, such as Pit Bull and Stevie Wonder.
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In an industry in which economies of scale have been a big factor, size should give the bigger firm an advantage.
More recently, Australia has found itself drawn into much smaller-scale operations with a big civilian component in the Solomon Islands, in Papua New Guinea and even in Nauru: all countries that became independent only in the late 1960s or 1970s, and have signally failed to prosper.
Among the giants, of which SAP was once a peer, big acquisitions, scope and scale have become critical.
It is the same lesson learned, albeit on a smaller scale, by certain other big time football programs when their head coaches fell from grace.
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"PLM has been perceived as a big, expensive technology akin to an ERP-scale effort, " she says, referring to enterprise resource planning, another alphabet-soup software that tries to unite a company's operations on one computer system.
For that to happen the big retail chains would have to start offering a sliding scale of discounts or other incentives to consumers at the cash register for using one card instead of another, or cash.
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Cloud, social, mobile, engagement, Big Vision (formerly Big Data), and a greatly accelerated pace and scale of global business require modern apps, optimized systems, fault-tolerance, full support across cloud and on-premise and a mix of both, and built-in BI and social capabilities.
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This will be a really big deal if it works, and small-scale field tests seem promising. (The quality of the video below is lousy, but it gives you the idea.) The most intriguing thing about Square, though, at least so far, is the conceptual leap that Dorsey may have been uniquely qualified to make: Payment transactions are a kind of social interchange.
It purchased bank shares (on a far bigger scale) in September 2008, the first of a flurry of rescue measures, culminating in a big stimulus package two months later.
MapReduce is important in the scheme of big data because it allows processing of analytics at a large scale while abstracting the complexities of doing this processing.
The flipside of this is that Mr Stern shuns the traditional approach of doing local deals, as big employers nowadays tend to operate on at least a national scale.
Dr White compared the scale of the effects of living in a greener area to "big-hitting" life events such as marriage.
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But the sober message about wind and solar applies to all renewables: All renewables, much as I love them, deliver only a small power per unit area, so if we want renewable facilities to supply power on a scale at all comparable to our consumption, those facilities must be big.
The big thing for me is learning how to be a CEO of a company at scale, and seeking out coaches and mentors.
"Over the next 10 to 20 years, a big phenomenon in the world will be Chinese and Indian companies, once they have scale in their own markets, expanding oversees, " he said.
We know well by now that although big foundations, just like governments, can do good by acting on a large scale, they can also, just like governments, become bogged down by bureaucracy and waste.
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The first big idea that he stresses is the creation of a new agency to spearhead innovation and scale up any of the many pilot schemes contained in the bills that manage to reform delivery or payment systems.
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