The lack of job cuts so far may disappoint those new-economy theorists who reckon that today's information systems and flexible labour market should have led to a speedy response.
In the Information Age, the norm is flexible work, breaking the barriers that once required everyone to work at the same time, in the same place.
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The printing and computer company says the watch will have a flexible display that shows maps and other strategic information to soldiers in remote combat fields.
Further, as manufacturing moves toward a more information-intensive, automated, and flexible future, it is returning to the US. With new materials, new techniques and demands for mass-customization, manufacturing will increasingly rely on knowledge, design capabilities, innovation and research.
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What the experience with Anne demonstrates is that customer relationship and customer care systems also need to be flexible enough to foster and support the creation of new ideas and information from within the organization.
We need such information to fulfill our vision for the house to be a flexible platform for testing and user feedback of new student-developed smarter living technologies.
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Don't expect a full-fledged version of Morph, which combines flexible electronics, touch-sensitive textured displays and the ability to process sensory information all in one phone.
These tools can aggregate expertise and information through company wikipages, and work streams and projects can become fluid and flexible as ideas are more easily introduced and adapted.
But even David Gross, who coordinates information policy at the State Department, emphasized that any solution would have to be flexible, because the internet is changing every day.
The problem with new IRS software requests, according to AICPA, is that small-business record-keeping software is flexible enough to bring in unrelated financial data that are fully integrated with the tax-preparation information.
In a fast-moving, interconnected, and open-information world, anticipating and preventing armed conflict or mass atrocities requires tools that are equally as fast, flexible and high-impact as the modern perpetrators of violence.
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