Risk assessments can serve as a vehicle for early buy-in, a method to secure budget and resources, a gauge for progress, a way to avoid fire-drills and set priorities for your program, a natural reporting-out format, and proof for regulators of the adequacy of your program.
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DARPA's staff worked out the format for the competition, the prize money was put on the table and the Grand Challenge was born.
Laybourne is still working out a basic format for combining the Net and TV.
He has cut the retailer's reliance on sales and is rolling out a new store format with fancier brands.
Era secretary general Kim Bayley said "most retailers" will follow HMV's lead, but argues that singles will not die out as a physical format.
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It's only the second time such a debate has taken place -- Democratic candidates duked it out in a similar format this past summer.
"With the proliferation of so many channels, the challenge that daytime TV faces is branching out from its traditional format, and it hasn't done that, " O'Neil says.
"The problem we've always got is if we go out, then what little format we have is gone, " Mack joked, during the Front Row interview.
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The singer told the BBC he was inspired to begin the project by EPs of the past and would be challenging fellow artists to try out the multi-track format.
The result: while sales of high-definition televisions sets have soared, sales of next-generation discs and videodisc players have not as consumers wait to see which format will come out ahead.
There are worries that the incredible popularity of the Twenty20 format will drown out the subtler pleasures of Test cricket, or even the other form of cricket, the one-day match.
It had stayed out of the videocassette recorder format wars in the 1970s, when Sony's Betamax faced off with Matsushita's VHS. Toshiba is paying eventual winner Matsushita hefty amounts in license fees so it can make its own VHS machines.
"I understand the importance of getting books out there to people in whatever format they will consume them, " she says.
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Jpacks does offer products that are laid out in an easy to view format to those who wish to expand or add to their model train sets.
The project will tweak the usual talk format by taking celebrities out of the studio and having Vinny interview them in his Staten Island home with his colorful Italian family.
They also point out that new technologies such as print on demand, which makes printing short runs of physical books more economical, should help them squeeze more money out of the old-fashioned format.
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In 2008, Roskam had the rolls developed and transferred into a high-definition digital format, then set out again to find a documentary company to work with, finally connecting with Hayden 5 Media, a small New York firm.
Accessible at the top of every page, Content Search lets readers find anything being shared on Flipboard, with search results laid out in Flipboard's familiar format and easy to filp through -- essentially creating a whole new magazine just on that search term.
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Finally, the Microsoft Reader is a digital publishing format that really knocks me out.
This bad boy plays nice with CF, MicroDrive, SD, SDHC, MMC, xD, MSDuo, MSPro, and nearly every other proprietary format that Sony has kicked out.
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Then in 1963 Philips NV introduced the audiotape cassette, which remained a niche format until Sony again figured out where the market was in the early 1970s.
The company is quietly solving that problem: an update pushing out to individual users lets them drag-and-drop photos into a new post, like we've seen on other social networks, and to a newly streamlined Messages format that's rolling out at the same time.
The team has a lucrative local cable deal (they own a sizable stake in Comcast Sports Net Bay Area), have been out front in the popular reality television format for MLB following their 2010 title, and are pushing hard in social media.
The system, called Sentinel, includes elements resembling Web browsers, with tabs and movable windows, and forms that are filled out in a question-and-answer format similar to consumer tax software.
It was the Lib Dem leader who brought together her two counterparts in the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru to hammer out a joint statement and agree on the format of the vote - no mean feat given the political distance between Andrew RT Davies and Leanne Wood.
Moreover, advertisers, operators and middlemen have not agreed a common format for this information, nor worked out how to share the revenue it might yield.
While we hope that the Blu-ray Disc Association can work out the kinks, there is real promise in the format.
If the format eventually goes extinct, you may be out of luck.
There's also a very limited amount of content in the new pixel-heavy Ultra HD format, though more will likely be churned out in the coming years.
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