Businesses are complex adaptive systems that cannot be modeled with certainty.
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In the real world, we rarely encounter a situation that can be completely modeled with an analytical (rational) model, so the correct answer to the model cannot purport to be the definitively correct answer to the real world situation.
This year shareholders voted in favor of the re-modeled pay packaged with 90% of shareholders approving.
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And the Grand Concourse resembles the spacious Parisian thoroughfare it was modeled after, with a few bodegas thrown in for good luck.
They then modeled a solar storm with the intensity of the Carrington Solar Storm, which took place in 1859 and is estimated to have been about four times stronger than the Halloween storms.
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For example, consider the aforementioned client with which we modeled the impact of going to cash for one year.
The Resigs not only operate theChive, but their Resignation Media includes four other properties all modeled after theChive, though with a different focus.
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Now the petitioners are calling on Skype to create a reporting system for its cooperation with government surveillance modeled on the Transparency Reports issued by tech firms like Google, Twitter, and the California broadband provider Sonic.net.
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Sony's Aibo line of robot pets celebrates its third year with a new entry modeled on a pug.
He calls this motif "Actual Life, " modeled after a project he started with his wife to represent how people actually talk versus the canned phrases in language textbooks.
Mr. Meurkens's latest is "Celebrando, " a collaboration with bassist and singer Gabriel Espinosa that could have been modeled after "Aquarela do Brasil, " Mr. Thielemans's 1969 collaboration with Brazilian Elis Regina.
In contrast to Barbie's fantasy figure and perky high heels, these dolls are modeled on girls from historical eras and come with storybooks about themselves.
The Smarter Energy Research Institute represents a new form of collaborative innovation for the energy and utilities industry and is modeled after programs that IBM has successfully implemented with clients in other areas, placing scientists with members from other disciplines and industries, working side-by-side to research and develop new breakthroughs.
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The oxygen that remains is burned with fuel and water in a chamber modeled after a rocket engine.
Other times, the product is a modification and spinning of an old product, with a new message, launched in the right place, as is the case with Nike Air Jordan Retro XI sneakers modeled after the 1996 originals designed for Michel Jordan when he played for Chicago Bulls.
R. blitz modeled after a U.S. political campaign, with issue ads, town-hall meetings, focus groups and overnight polling.
This is true of the flu, hepatitis and AIDS. With the avian flu, we've modeled the virus on supercomputers, and we think we understand why it binds deep in the lungs--it's not communicable--you don't cough it up.
These AIOs fit into any home environment with a thin "journal" design, modeled after the pages of a journal or book, for a clean, simplistic look, and a unique aluminum stand that utilizes minimal desk space and allows users to slot the keyboard under the screen.
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Modeled after the London Eye, the wheel will have 26 buckets with 20 seats each.
The latter particularly took off in 2009 with a series of wooden shoe-shine stands he modeled after the kind that line the Shine King, a community hub in west Chicago.
Disney Springs, which will be modeled on Florida's waterfront communities, will feature four outdoor neighborhoods with more than 150 shops, restaurants and other establishments.
Capellas is running the financial makeover out of a war room modeled after the one he used as chief of Compaq when it merged with Hewlett-Packard.
What's more, the bot has been outfitted with a new hand controller that the company says has been modeled after video game controllers, supposedly reducing the amount of training needed to operate the robot.
To the Entrepreneur, the present-day world is modeled after a vision of a better way, one that will stand out with customers from all the rest in the past, and give the joy and satisfaction of success.
Other countries took note of the fact that policies can no longer be modeled on June Cleaver greeting her husband and children at the end of the day with a meal and a smile.
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In the fall, Metcalfe will instruct 1 Semester Startup, a class modeled after 3DS. He is confident that innovation can be taught and believes it starts with inspiration.
With such a plan, insurance companies are able to price policies according to the modeled risk.
Proposals in the committee's package included expanding background checks on gun buyers, toughening laws against gun trafficking and straw purchases, banning semiautomatic rifles modeled after military assault weapons as well as large-capacity ammunition magazines, and coming up with ideas for improving school safety.
Proposals in the committee's package included expanding background checks on gun buyers, toughening laws against gun trafficking and straw purchases, banning semi-automatic rifles modeled after military assault weapons as well as large-capacity ammunition magazines, and coming up with ideas for improving school safety.
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Modeled after the information and e-commerce transactions available on the Web, the latest in information technology starts with a telephone number that you'll be able to dial to reach a computer that hears and guides your requests and answers them using voice-recognition technology.
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