Besides these pressures, a once-in-a-lifetime event is expected to bring many companies to their knees and force a technology shift of unprecedented size and scope.
Many commentators are arguing that what is needed to tackle the problem are not simply measures such as those outlined above, but rather a quantum-shift in the technology of air travel, with a radical re-think not only in how planes are designed, but also what they are actually made of.
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This significant shift signals the entry of big technology companies, consultants and innovators who see a connection between their expertise and the operationally focused, data driven business healthcare is quickly becoming.
With the rise of tablets, smartphones, social media, apps and personal clouds, we are in the midst of a profound computing shift, perhaps the greatest technology revolution in the enterprise since the invention of the PC.
Therefore Social Business is the fifth shift caused by technology after the ages of the mainframe, departmental computer, PC, and the Internet.
One reason is that OECD economies are less energy-intensive than three decades ago when the first oil shocks occurred, thanks to the shift out of manufacturing into services and information technology.
Eventually GreatPoint's technology may shift the economics of coal.
These represent just a handful of examples of how a shift toward efficiency and advanced technology is driving job creation, investment and innovation across the country.
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The interface of Minority Report was, in many ways, just as futuristic, but also more accessible -- something that we could see as an extension of existing technology rather than a shift to something completely different.
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Mr. ARNOLD BARNETT (Statistician, Massachusetts Institute of Technology): You could do that for 200, 000 years before the odds would shift in favor of, sooner or later, dying of a fatal crash.
The consultative nature of the brand detail will shift in parallel with the technology-driven changes in practice.
These changes to how we handle performance reviews are part of the social transformation of HR, within the larger Fifth shift in how technology is fundamentally changing the way we do business.
Anticipative maintenance is part of a larger shift at the rail arm toward using more technology on the tracks.
But efforts to shift the emphasis away from traditional methods of improving sanitation to simple technology-based ones might pay dividends.
While the consumer appetite towards a brand of phone or tablet may shift with the wind, the technology that powers these devices will not.
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Editors who often work with scanned prints and negatives might find the Visualize Spots tool to be quite useful, which helps you easily identify dust spots and remove them, while perfectionists can take advantage of Upright, the app's new perspective shift technology -- it's some crazy voodoo code that more or less works like magic (see screenshot above).
But from their complaints, they appear to be pushing the industry toward modularity perhaps a bit before it is ready to shift and are therefore dealing with the corresponding headaches of a still immature technology.
The Free Press reports that GM made a similar shift of engineering staff that was working on development of gas-electric hybrid technology in 2003.
While Mr. Jobs flouted usual business practices and outside influence, Mr. Cook's shift on cash removes Apple as one of the few dividend holdouts among large technology companies.
Changes in technology, the economy and businesses are all part of the shift.
Possibly so, but regardless of it becoming a hot topic in technology, the perception needs to shift to the focus on a hot topic in business management and organizational operations.
When the European allies of the US learned of this shift in US policy, they, too, especially the Germans, began selling technology to Iraq that proved important in its unconventional weapons programs, especially chemical weapons.
Then it sought to shift all of its home-dialysis patients over to the subsidiary and the so-called Method II technology.
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