On top of destabilizing health systems, there are profound cost implications for economic and social systems.
Finally, instead of adopting a fortress mentality, policy should promote resilience in both technological and social systems.
Instead, what history and sociology show us is that both technological systems and social systems are more resilient than we often assume.
One can legitimately question whether political and social systems in richer countries would suffer serious loss of cultural identity and social cohesion.
To me, acknowledgment of shareholder interests would insist on carefully chosen actions recognizing business success as intricately intertwined with natural and social systems.
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If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur.
If our MBA students expect to become successful business leaders in the future, then understanding the relationship between business activities, the natural world, and social systems is crucial.
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The big purpose of education is to prepare good citizens by providing them with a foundational competency in our cultural way of structuring reality, a process that has immediate impact on the social systems in which they will inevitably participate.
The government usually turns either to regulation or to tax credits to spur responsibility, but to make these programs work, we need a combination of incentives (usually through tax breaks or tax credits) and government involvement to create new kinds of social systems.
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Joan Weiner, who has a degree in social systems sciences, notes that although approaching sustainable innovation in a holistic way holds the challenge of bringing together the complex, interrelated sets of pieces into a new and continually changing system, the benefits are potentially great.
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Much of the world has used the opportunity provided by the 2003--05 flood of Greenspan dollars to increase the soundness of their monetary systems, create permanently lower tax rates and, for some, fund their social security systems.
Why is it so hard to reform government, and particularly social welfare systems?
There must be a comprehensive reform of the tax and social welfare systems.
However, the raw feeds themselves are most often provided to suppliers of social monitoring systems, not the end user.
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There will always be different fields, facilities, and factors in various social network systems, but the basics are becoming immutable.
It dramatically reduces the quality of life - and expected lifespan - of the patient, and imposes huge costs on health and social care systems.
Legality would enhance the contribution of migrant workers to the U.S. economy and provide for their paying their fair share to the tax and Social Security systems.
We have taken the necessary steps to make sure that the social security systems will resist in the future and that the competitiveness of the German economy is strengthened.
Launch new tax and social security systems in 2013.
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Mr. Bersin pointed out that per a survey in 2009 by his research firm, 84-85% of people in HR roles felt that they were sorely lacking in skills and expertise around social business systems.
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Mr Gore has signalled his opposition to such a large tax cut and instead wants to use the surplus to shore up the health care and social security systems and pay off the national debt by 2015.
In addition, if employees don't invest personal disposal time in their relationships outside, with their family, loved ones and friends, they will be undermining the very social support systems they may need in difficult and stressful times.
Reforms to the taxation, healthcare, pension, and social welfare systems helped Slovakia consolidate its budget and get on track to join the EU in 2004 after a period of relative stagnation in the early and mid 1990s and to adopt the euro in January 2009.
By mining employee business communications and tapping into corporate email, calendaring, social networks, phone systems and collaboration systems, BranchIt serves as a corporate social search engine.
Most social media monitoring systems measure topics, sites, products or services rather than people.
How do we build to a model of connecting social into the systems of record that run a business?
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To complicate matters, highly skilled migrants contribute much more to tax and social-security systems than do less skilled ones.
Expect social media management systems to become as common as email clients as companies work to streamline and automate this process.
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And social-security systems may even be contributing to the coming demographic crunch.
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