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But in a world of rapid change in the marketplace, of an increasing proportion of knowledge work, of increasing technical complexity of the work, and where customers who do not even know themselves what will delight them, stable predictable work environments are largely a thing of the past.
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But in a world of accelerating change, we all need time to reflect.
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Who has the time, and what is the benefit, of planning in a world of continuous change, demand-driven marketing, and intense pressure for instantaneous responses?
Yet the truth is: these two trends, one from the world of analytics, the other from the world of innovation and change, can be Big Data: water wordscape powerfully combined to drive sustainable success in a highly uncertain world.
How, in a world of increasing technological change and globalization, is it possible to sustain such resolutely middling behavior?
It is my goal to find these errors, which typically result from biases and illogic in the process and from a failure to see the big picture of world economic change.
And the world is full of change and essentially what we're doing when we look at the past so many years and say let's project it forward is denying change and yet change happens.
We cannot hope to influence and create change in the world around us, until we have taken on the hard work of creating change in the world within us.
He's taking 10, 000 photos, one of each person who lives there, to show the world the human face of climate change.
Because industries and organizations are operating in a world of rapid, constant change, a new guiding coalition will be necessary each year in order to keep pace.
Today's world is one of rapid change and far-reaching consequences.
England midfielder Beckham originally joined Milan on a two-month deal, but his immediate impact and desire to become part of England's expected appearance at the 2010 World Cup finals saw a change of plan.
"This is a very important part of the world where there has already been a lot of change, " said lead author Jan Lenaerts from Utrecht University, Netherlands.
That feeling seems to have taken hold in India and many other parts of the world, all going through the kind of dynamic change that creates a need to question everything.
Whether she gets that money or not, the intellectual property, and the ultimately successful efforts to come to grips with unprecedented amounts of data, will change our understanding of the world, and ourselves.
She said it would be through the "democratisation of education" that change in the world can come about, speaking of the importance of access to learning for all.
While hundreds of studies around the world have linked climate change to phenomena including the increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes and other storms, changing rainfall patterns, drought, coastal flooding, changing disease patterns and the migration of human populations.
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By 2008, the camera that changed cinema also began to change the world of stills.
Ask (and answer out loud): How are we going to change the world of our employees, customers and marketplace?
They are investing billions of dollars in technology that will change the world, including your particular part of it.
So this is also the season when stories of death, destruction, and the end of the world from climate change appear daily.
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To see its reconstruction in the exhibition, it is hard to believe that such an unassuming space could change the world of art.
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It might not be easy but the fact that he's talking about it in that manner, I think people are becoming receptive that there's going to be a change in American - in the way America deals with the world and that the reputation of America will change in the next four years.
But underneath the surface of that boom are looming challenges that could change the rest of the world.
Our view is that in a world of fluid dynamic economic, political and technical change, equal weighting is actually of limited value.
This will be illustrated through specific practical examples of the use of the tools to facilitate change in different regions of the world.
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Europeans want change in America and in the world and they see Obama as a purveyor of change.
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