Sentences with phrase «changing relationship to technology»

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
Executives need to look carefully into the changes that are just starting to emerge and learn as much as they can about how new technologies affect their core value proposition, their competitive positioning, and their relationships with stakeholders.
Indeed, 57 % of millennials said they would change their bank relationship for a better technology platform solution, according to Deloitte.
Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and other factors.
Technology is changing the patient - provider relationship as never before — starting with the obvious: Consumers now have access to — and, increasingly, control over their own healthcare data.
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the business and operations of the Company in the expected time frame; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; tax law changes or interpretations; and other factors.
We will cover: Developmental changes and psychological issues Switching parenting styles from teacher to coach Communication and problem - solving skills to end power struggles and keep your relationship close Reducing high - risk behaviour Navigating social media, gaming and technology Attitude, motivation, and performance issues (homework etc.) Testimonials from Workshop Attendees «Your insights are spot on — the way you answered questions really showed your expertise and passion....
His idea helped to forever change our relationship with technology.
«As parents we will need to keep adapting to a changing culture and rapidly evolving technologies, and it's our job to protect our child's most important relationships and learning experiences while not driving ourselves crazy with guilt for every bit of screen time our child gets,» says Jenny Radesky, a pediatrician at Boston University Medical Center.
What Carpenter found is that troops» relationships with robots continue to evolve as the technology changes.
Pascal Soriot, Chief Executive Officer, AstraZeneca, said: «We're pleased to be expanding our relationship with Moderna with this new collaboration, to advance the potential of pioneering messenger RNA technology in developing game - changing new treatments for cancer patients.»
Speaking about the relationship, ODA Chief Executive George Kidd said: «We have been working closely with Inline who have been an asset to the ODA in helping us identify the challenges and important issues which we face in dealing with changes that new technology brings.
The way people find relationships and love has been constantly evolving because of technology, and Match.com was one of the first companies to help with this change.
Online dating has drastically changed the way people meet and build relationships in comparison to how dating is done almost two decades ago and technology has played a major role in shaping this change.
Love 3.0: How technology changes our definition of love, sex, and relationships — The goal of the discussion was to assess whether technology has changed our definition of love... Herd initially broke into the dating sector through Tinder, which she cofounded.
In the process, filmmaker Doug Nichol delivers a thought - provoking meditation on the changing dynamic between humans and machines, and encourages us to consider our own relationship with technology, old and new, as the digital age's emphasis on speed and convenience redefines who's serving whom, human or machine?
But it was more than just a change of pace; «San Junipero» took a clever concept and let the technology take a back seat to the incredibly beautiful relationship between characters played with such great humanity by Mackenzie Davis and Gugu Mbatha - Raw.
Spike Jonze's return to the feature director's chair (and first time bringing a script he wrote entirely by himself with him) after a four year break is a thoroughly layered and personal film that is at times about the awkward nature of new relationships after a break up (and how we cope with that crushing in - between time), and at times about how technology shapes our modern world, and at times about how we demonstrate and understand love and relationships changes with both time and technology.
«The thing we get with games that is different from what we get with books or other media is that we are able to actually build models of relationships between the different moving parts of a system and let people mess around with them, let people experience what happens when they change one variable or when they introduce a different kind of behavior,» says Ian Bogost, an associate professor of computational and digital media at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Technology can be an important component, but focus on changes to other core elements such as the student - teacher relationship, instructional approaches, learning environments, and how student progress is measured.
To commemorate the milestone anniversary, participants in this year's conference will reflect on past collaborations and accomplishments, assess the current changing landscape of teacher education, and look ahead to the new approaches, frameworks, technologies, and international relationships to support teacher learning and educational researcTo commemorate the milestone anniversary, participants in this year's conference will reflect on past collaborations and accomplishments, assess the current changing landscape of teacher education, and look ahead to the new approaches, frameworks, technologies, and international relationships to support teacher learning and educational researcto the new approaches, frameworks, technologies, and international relationships to support teacher learning and educational researcto support teacher learning and educational research.
This study examined the relationship between learning style, level of resistance to change, and teacher retention in schools implementing an intensive schoolwide technology and media integration model.
As a result, the overarching guiding question for this study was, «What is the relationship between learning preference and teachers» resistance to change within the context of a school undergoing a large - scale complex technology intervention?»
Taking into account the need for more empirical information in this area, this study represents an exploration of the relationship between teachers» learning styles and their level of resistance to change within a group of schools implementing a large - scale technology intervention, as well as the relationship between those variables and teacher attrition.
I don't get paying a billion (even if it's pocket change for MS) to acquire discovery technology, scrapbooking features, and ebook publisher relationships.
Factors that could cause Blizzard Entertainment's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward - looking statements set forth in this release include, but are not limited to, sales of Blizzard Entertainment's titles, shifts in consumer spending trends, the seasonal and cyclical nature of the interactive game market, Blizzard Entertainment's ability to predict consumer preferences among competing hardware platforms (including next - generation hardware), declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Blizzard Entertainment's products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware and related software, industry competition, rapid changes in technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights, litigation against Blizzard Entertainment, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, vendors and third - party developers, domestic and international economic, financial and political conditions and policies, foreign exchange rates, integration of recent acquisitions and the identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities, Activision Blizzard's success in integrating the operations of Activision Publishing and Vivendi Games in a timely manner, or at all, and the combined company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits and synergies of the transaction to the extent, or in the timeframe, anticipated.
This exhibition will shed scholarly light on the aesthetic and intellectual concerns undergirding the development of this important strand of early American modernism to explore the origins of its style, its relationship to photography, and its aesthetic and conceptual reflection of the economic and social changes wrought by industrialization and technology.
However with the advent of the internet, personal computer devices and streaming services, technology has again changed the relationship we have with the world around us to a more singular yet proliferating existence.
Op Art is again being revisited by a younger generation in light of the changing relationship to opticality through digital technology, and the work of Andrade continues to be informed by that rich dialogue.
I have partnered with green building community organizations, climate change activists, arts organizations and government agencies to make public art pieces that address our relationship to the history, nature and technology.
Abstraction remains an area of research for Godfrey, and his current interests include the arguments made around abstraction in the Civil Rights era and the relationship of contemporary abstract painting to changes in technology.
By utilising complex audio and video editing techniques, Rose explores the interwoven nature of history, memory and geography, and tackles the urgent ecological issues of humanity's changing relationship to the natural world and the advancement of technology.
While Craig - Martin directly addresses the predominance of new media in his digital work Lightbulb (2015)-- whose color gradually changes online, and which is shareable via social media — larger, political questions of digital networks and their relationship with the real world are mainly left to Simon Denny, who takes a sharp critical angle on the murky alliance between technology and capitalism in his Serpentine show.
Over the past decade, New York — based artist Wade Guyton has pioneered a groundbreaking body of work that explores our changing relationships to images and artworks through the use of common digital technologies, such as the desktop computer, scanner, and inkjet printer.
She has partnered with green building community organizations, climate change activits, arts organizations and government agencies to make public art pieces that address our relationship to the history, nature and technology.
The exhibition brings together a series of Umbrico's works from 1989 to the present, reflecting on photography's relationship to light and the complex changes that digital technology has brought to photographic image production.
Her extensive career focuses on the changing relationship between the body and technology which led to her innovative work with artificial intelligence, biological computing, dna manipulation including bio printed body parts.
Fitch and Trecartin see in our relationship to pets a parallel with our relationship to technology, in the way that we've been trained to adapt our behavior, our language, and the images we choose to present our changing selves.
His research has strong interest in the relationship between digital technologies, social changes and the response of art to these challenges.
Secondly, new technologies are enabling new business models: When a car sits idle in the driveway 96 % of its life, that's a massive opportunity for business model disruption that could change how we think about our relationship to vehicles.
Jeremijenko — who's known for her work in combining technology with ecology for a «mutualistic systems design» approach, ultimately creating what she calls an «eco-mindshift» — is posing the question of how would our relationship to nature change if we apply to it the same rules that we live by?
Among the issues reviewed were: • The prospects for air pollution and climate change in the region up to 2030 in the absence of action on SLCPs; • The potential contribution of SLCP mitigation to climate, health and food security, and more generally to economic development; • Feasible mitigation technologies and strategies and opportunities for their implementation at national scale; • The relationship of SLCP mitigation to broader regional air pollution and climate strategies and their benefit for the MENA region.
The relationship between sports and technology changed fairly quickly and the various leagues, broadcasters and athletes found themselves scrambling to change with it.
I think that technology is going to change the role of the professional — there will be less processing paperwork, and more of client relationship building and supervision of teams by lawyers.
The reports would need to track relationships between regulations and keep up to date by using a technology solution like machine learning, artificial intelligence or natural language processing to collect this information and provide clear, structured and actionable reporting on regulatory changes.
Client demands are also changing and putting pressure on law firms to be innovative with the ways they use technology and manage their relationships.
We had to think about how writing on a keyboard using software with increasingly sophisticated word processing capabilities affected the writing process, and whether the ease of composing on - screen changed the writer's relationship to the text.7 We had to confront the ways digital technologies change the way we read and process information.8 As email became ubiquitous, we had to think about how the speed of that type of communication affected the writing process, and what new forms legal analysis could take when delivered via email.9 As technology simplified the process of embedding images into documents and made possible incorporation of video and other interactive elements, whole new areas of scholarly inquiry have opened up.10 We have started to address these questions, but we still have so much to learn about how technology impacts how we go about writing legal documents.
Our relationship with ROSS Intelligence not only allows us to continue to provide excellent client service in the ever - changing business of law, but also ensures that as a firm we are fully leveraging the transformative artificial intelligence technology that is rapidly changing the knowledge economy.»
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