Sentences with phrase «change organizations today»

Coming on the heels of last week's announcement to abandon the Paris Climate Accord, a group of leading national social change organizations today announced they are divesting funds from «pipeline banks» and instead banking in alignment with their values.

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Bushnell was set to receive the Pioneer Award at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, but the organization announced Wednesday it had changed its mind, saying the committee «believe their picks should reflect the values of today's game industry and will dedicate this year's award to honor the pioneering and unheard voices of the past.»

Customers today value the organizations that help them stay on the cutting edge in their ever - changing world.

As McKinsey has noted, in order to achieve a change of scale at requisite speed, particularly in a digital setting, an organization today needs to start by realigning its technology infrastructure to handle the new levels of customer interactions that will come.

CINCINNATI --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M) today announced several changes intended to improve the company's performance, including the hiring of Hal Lawton as president, the creation of a single simplified merchandising organization and an enhanced focus on the company's data analytics capabilities.

Today, we know that when building an organization that can maintain high - performance throughout changing business conditions, the two fundamental building blocks of inclusion and transparency are powerful competitive advantages.

The C - Suite of today can begin to gather business insight into changing decision models of organizations and consequently buyer decision models.

Inspired by his time as a Navy SEAL and building award - winning organizations in the business world, Brent Gleeson has created a powerful roadmap for today's existing and emerging business leaders and managers to improve their ability to successfully navigate organizational change.

Changes that organizations today will need to plan for, adapt to, get ready for, and begin to strategize about:

Have organizations today kept pace with the changes in buying behaviors and patterns?

I might say some things differently today, but I would still hold to the basic principle that an important aspect of Christian social responsibility is the organization politically of the victims of social injustice so that they can use their power to change conditions.

«The Food Fighters shows how Robert Egger's innovative approach to combating hunger and creating opportunity has changed lives and why the organization is more relevant today than ever before.

Today I am changing things up, still talking about my home but getting a little more personal and helping get the word out for an amazing organization.

NGP VAN, the global leader in technology for Democratic and progressive campaigns and organizations, today announced its acquisition of NationalField, the startup launched out of the 2008 Obama campaign that provides online organizing networks and powerful data dashboards to campaigns and organizations fighting for change.

Founded at first in 1953 by Ariel Sharon, they were changing in the organization until become what they actually are today.

The Minister for Natural Resources released a written statement today confirming that funding for YFC Wales would be reinstated, while agreeing that the organization go through an Enabling Change Programme.

The proposed changes to NSF's peer - review practices, which generated a firestorm last spring among White House officials, scientists, and their professional organizations, received scant attention at today's markup.

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is an international scientific and medical organization dedicated to raising public awareness about nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, a vital element of today's medical practice that adds an additional dimension to diagnosis, changing the way common and devastating diseases are understood and treated and helping provide patients with the best health care possible.

(SAN FRANCISCO — Oct. 22, 2013) Today U.S. environmental organizations lauded a letter from world - renowned scientist Dr. Jane Goodall to Governor Jerry Brown, calling for California to open a pathway to accept credits for reductions in tropical deforestation in its climate change program.

The changes announced today reflect the deep bench of talent across our organization, enabling us to tap into a collective 20 years of Company expertise from trusted leaders with proven track records.»

Training school administrators to lead and manage would recognize that effective management today demands a focus on improving instruction, which in turn requires a focus on five basic tasks: managing oneself, managing relationships, managing organizations, managing context, and managing change.

In a forum released today by Education Next, Nonie Lesaux of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispanics.

I believe that organizations today are ready to make this change and several supporting factors (mLearning or mobile learning, microlearning, and social learning) will help build momentum in the adoption of Performance Support Tools.

The changes that are affecting organizations today are coming thick and fast.

I am delighted that an enormous coalition of community organizations in cities across the United States is questioning the direction of the school reforms being pushed today by the Obama administration and suggesting sensible steps that would help us begin to change course.

To adapt to and succeed in a changing world of work, today's organizations should strive toward a new learning standard, one that's powered by tech - enabled modern learning strategies that help drive agile corporate learning and development.

Join us in exploring the mindsets of design thinking, improv, and well - being needed for today's organizations to lead meaningful, sustainable change.

Great State Leaders: A Competency Framework for Growing Talent in a State Education Agency [PDF, 1 MB] Reforms of the scope and scale of those being undertaken by States today require the development of strong leaders at all levels of organizations to manage the change required by these and other initiatives.

Despite the doom and gloom pronouncements from legacy publishing organizations who are having difficulty navigating these changes, the broader picture is this: today more authors are able to reach readers and earn a living selling their art than ever before.

«It was with much sadness that we informed our teams today of changes to our Games organization, which include the closure of Junction Point Studios.

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation announced today the creation of the Climate Change Solutions Fund to support cross-disciplinary responses to global warming, issuing an open call for grant proposals from organizations whose work matches the Fund's objectives.

Other nongovernmental organizations seemed to enter without a problem, although the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change had announced that a diminished number of N.G.O. delegates would be admitted today because of the center's continuing capacity problems.

Today Harvard University, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and a range of other partner organizations are launching the Planetary Health Alliance, a new effort to dramatically improve our understanding of the linkages between environmental change and human health across the globe.

Postscript: Randy Olson has posted an interesting piece on his Web site today proposing that the community seeking public trust and engagement on climate change would do well to study the practices of two organizations fighting for science - based behavior in very different arenas: the federal Centers For Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Science Education (on evolution in the classroom).

(YONKERS, June 26, 2007)- At a riverfront press conference today, Scenic Hudson unveiled its conceptual vision for waterfront development in Yonkers based on over a dozen meetings with community organizations, residents and homeowners who will be directly affected by planned changes along the city's riverfront.

Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, stepped down today amid sexual harassment allegations, after more than a decade leading the organization.

The two defining problems of today are climate change and inequality, BC FED president Irene Lanzinger told a crowd of about 100 people at a Thursday event co-hosted by the BC Federation of Labour and several other labour organizations.

The survey, conducted by global market research firm Ipsos on behalf of non-profit organization The Climate Group and change agency Futerra, polled online adults aged 16 - 64 in 26 countries and is at the heart of a new campaign, #ClimateOptimist, launched today to change the dominant narrative on climate change.

Rotten though the American legal system is, and despite the fact that most of these organizations do not agree with Steyn's views on climate change (nor necessarily with Mann's either), amicus curiae briefs supporting Mark's position have been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Reporters» Committee for Press Freedom, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associations of American Publishers and of Alternative News Media (e.g. Village Voice), NBC Universal, Bloomberg, Time, USA Today, the Washington Post, and many other publications and groups.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Today, international environmental organization Stand.earth released its «Too Deadly to Wear» report, detailing the fashion industry's and Levi Strauss & Co's outsized role in the deadly impacts of climate change and air pollution across the globe.

Washington, D.C. — Today, a broad coalition of business, professional, energy, and environmental organizations released recommendations on the role of energy efficiency in federal climate change legislation.

As any leader of an organization will tell you, it is unrealistic to expect to operate in today's world without changing corporate strategy, which in turn changes people's jobs.

Tapscott, who is co-author with his son Alex Tapscott of Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World, said there is an opportunity with blockchain to fix many problems faced by organizations today, especially the financial industry.

Today, after years of advocacy by HIV, disability and migrant rights organizations, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship announced changes to the rules that exclude would - be residents of Canada based on projected «excessive demand» on health and social services.

The reason for this focus is twofold: (i) because lifting such restrictions in order to allow for these different kinds of organizations is today a highly controversial topic — arguably the most controversial of the consequences that would result from changing the regulatory framework, and (ii) because it is the restrictions on these different kinds of organizations that serve the most to limit evolution in legal services.

Corporate and government law offices may be accustomed to the compliance and reporting required by their parent organizations, however, they do not have control over the broad and sweeping changes so often associated with larger institutions today.

Allan Fineblit, CEO of the Law Society of Manitoba and another member of the steering committee, stressed the importance of including all members of the profession — large firms, small firms, in - house counsel, the academy, law societies, and other professional organizations — in order to make change happen because there are «lots of rules regarding law firms that just don't make any sense today.»

AllRaise, a new nonprofit organization that's behind diversity and inclusion efforts like Female Founder Office Hours (FFOH) and Founders for Change (FfC), wants to increase the amount of funding female founders receive, Forbes first reported earlier today.

While no changes are being made to the Dash blockchain governance, voting and treasury model, today's appointment provides the Dash Core organization with an experienced leader in the financial services industry.

Today, in the first study released in The Employee Engagement Lifecycle Series commissioned by The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated and WorkplaceTrends.com, survey data shows a changing mindset about hiring boomerang employees — i.e. someone who left an organization, for whatever reason, and then rejoined that same organization at a later date.