The world has changed drastically, but some South-East Asian governments have not adapted: to the globalisation of the marketplace, to the social changes their own economic triumphs have wrought, or even to the transformation of the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
We coined a phrase, "The new business of printing, " which was the transformation of the commercial print or the offset world to the digital world.
The son of a fishing trawler captain who quit school to race motorcycles, Bernie Ecclestone built his fortune from auto sales, property and the transformation of Formula 1 into one of the world's most popular sports.
But, to even grasp the science behind Crowd Science, you must first wrap your head around the magazine world transformation of the past decade.
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Not since the end of the Cold War has the world seen such a degree of transformation in global affairs.
We predict the future by dreaming big, but sometimes the small innovations and the transformation of something like a phone into a portable computer are what really change the world.
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Since then Henry has established himself into one of the deadliest strikers in the world - a transformation Desailly puts down to Henry's willingness to learn.
"Hopefully we'll fill the role that the Jewish people have tried to fill from time memorial, which is serving as a beacon to the world and as a force for the transformation of the good in society, " he said, adding that the event has already had sold out the 42, 000-seat stadium.
To get a view of how this transformation works in the real world, I turned to Peter Graf, Chief Sustainability Officer of SAP.
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Together these developments will spark a radical transformation of manufacturing around the world over the next decade.
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Corporations everywhere in the world are now in the midst of a transformation with respect to information technology.
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To make it useful to the rest of the world requires domain knowledge, and often a transformation that is simply nonsensical within the source domain.
There are home-grown successes, too witness the transformation of a doddery East German combine, Carl Zeiss of Jena, in Thuringia, into the technology group Jenoptik, with world sales of DM2.6 billion and a first public share issue last month that was one of the hits of the season.
He really thought that in order to have stability and something resembling peace in this area the Arab world and the Palestinians have to go through something of a transformation and that takes time.
In the world of slow baked transformation Transition Towns is a rallying point.
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America needs an education transformation based on standards benchmarked to the best of the world, a system of no-excuses accountability that refuses to accept failure and rewards excellence.
The audience is rapt as they listen to Denning, a former World Bank program director who received international recognition for his successful transformation of the old-school, decentralized, multi-cultural lending international agency in the 90s.
Thai royals, for example, historically had their bodies cremated many months after death, with their remains being moved from urn to urn until the final day of incineration, in the belief that the soul moves through a gradual transformation, exiting the earth and entering the spiritual world.
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