Legal systems change incrementally, technology changes exponentially.
The delivery systems will change, but the ability to make emotional connections will be constant.
Less attention has been given to how hospitals and health systems might change after ObamaCare.
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The fact is, people and political systems resist change that happens too rapidly.
What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change -- to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.
Previously, enthusiasts were relegated to bulky phase change systems to achieve radically low temperatures to maximize performance.
As illustrated in the figure, technology improves exponentially, but social, political and economic systems tend to change incrementally.
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Note that it's not all about renewable energy, but about technologies, systems and behaviour change that reduces climate-changing emissions.
Nobody has been deliberately cruel but attitudes and systems need to change.
It broadens the awareness and understanding of these knowledge systems by climate change scientists and decision-makers, including Authors and Reviewers of the forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report (AR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The fact is the marketplace is littered with dozens of novelty watches, all of which tell time well, and which do such things as receive Global Positioning Systems signals, change the channel on TV sets, take pictures and store contact lists like a personal digital assistant.
Integration needs to continue to happen but a real, truly sustainable economy will depend on a fundamental change in systems.
Only when the differential between existing conditions and what is technically possible becomes large enough are human systems jolted into disruptive change.
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The board is also examining what can be delivered regionally and how we can change our systems to reduce bureaucracy and process.
In the meantime, the business of Opportunity Works is not to change government systems, but to improve the employment rate of people with disabilities.
And some governments have tried only to change welfare systems and labour laws, which is necessary if unemployment is to be reduced but can also create insecurity and drive down consumer spending.
The onus should be on governments to change tax systems and close the loopholes that they allow to exist rather than to suggest that those using such schemes are to be condemned.
If states used teacher retirement plans with smooth accrual of benefits over a career, then having to change retirement systems mid-career would be no worse than having two different 401(k) accounts from stints at two different firms.
As early as February 2008, the Army is planning to introduce software, developed by Arlington, Texas-based Thursby Software, that will also enable Mac desktops and laptops to use CAC systems--a change that should make it easier to get Macs into the service.
The expert meeting will bring together about 80 climate change education experts from all over Africa to identify main challenges that climate change poses to education systems in Africa and explore the role education can play in addressing climate change effects.
Nassim Taleb also addresses regime change in chaotic systems in his book The Black Swan.
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Researchers at Xerox have designed algorithms and implemented dynamic parking systems in Los Angeles that change the way we park.
We've been hearing a lot of bad news about the environment such as climate change throwing natural systems out of balance, but things could be looking up slightly.
In other words, it is not the panacea we were hoping it would be, and thinking that HIT starts and stops with EHRs is the great delusion that we must wake up from if we are to implement truly meaningful systems that enable us to change the way healthcare is delivered.
Another company that Sakhrani says could be significantly impacted by the fee change is Alliance Data Systems.
Governments around the Gulf first tried to change this by launching systems that link banks and billers.
Another way that energy and environment come into conflict is when energy systems themselves become vulnerable to climate change.
Let's hold perpetrators legally accountable and once and for all change laws and justice systems that continue to fail women.
Modern computers do not suffer from this limitation and will cope with the 2000 date change but many older systems will need checking.
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