Sentences with phrase «technological change challenged»

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How Canada ensures it provides a universal, affordable, and high quality health care system that accommodates technological innovation and changes in delivery over the next few decades is a particularly important challenge.

«This harmonization should facilitate the development by manufacturers in both countries of world - class front - line workers with the skills needed able to meet the dual challenges of global economic competitiveness and accelerating technological change.»

That means they have weathered enormous economic and technological challenges over the past century and are fully capable of adapting to further changes in the banking industry.

Today's rapidity of change (technological, symbolic, metaphorical, communicative) challenges us to reflect and communicate about faith within changing Church communities in changing cultures.

It is a challenge that our struggle to clarify models of Church is occurring at a time of enormous technological change.

Meanwhile, most of our church leadership has failed to respond clearly to the challenges of new scientific theories, technological change, world leadership and increasing racial, ethnic and religious heterogeneity.

The award ceremony was underpinned by speeches that recognised the seismic technological, economic and social changes challenging traditional industries, innovations like James Cropper's landmark recycling process for many of the billions of paper coffee cups thrown away each year, were formally recognised by business peers.

Saying the past five years have been «as difficult as I have ever encountered» for Australian retailers, the retail veteran tipped «more of the same» this year as technological changes and international entrants continue to challenge established companies.

This will involve focusing on the challenges affecting the highways and transportation industry, with particular reference to economic, political, environmental and technological change.

Basic research lays the groundwork for future scientific and technological development and it often addresses society's largest challenges such as mitigating climate change, curbing antibiotic resistance or preventing terrorism, said Maria Zuber, chair of the National Science Board and the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and vice president for research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during a monthly colloquium lecture on Wednesday at AAAS headquarters.

The technological challenge is to detect minute changes in the length of the arms as small as 10 - 18 meters (many times smaller than a proton!)

Education systems face the huge challenge of adapting to a changing landscape in which the rapid pace of knowledge generation and technological change demand that students acquire more and new skills.

«Education today must prepare young people to flourish in a society awash with intelligent technology and to enter a job market shaped by rapid technological change, yet there are urgent challenges in the world that require human solutions from future leaders.

At the time, they described the challenge this way: «Rapid technological innovations, new forms of ownership, and changing social expectations on the part of both producers and consumers make it difficult for any of us holding a job to live up to the values of the domain, the values of society, and our own system of values.»

In my school system our technology mission is: «Prepare our community to meet the challenges of the 21st Century Learner, act as a conduit of continual change, serve our students to help them succeed and support the technological needs through planning and integration.»

She talks about the challenges of generating educational change at a national scale and how to take advantage of the technological rich infrastructure that Uruguay has in order to accelerate results.

KEY FEATURES — Stunningly detailed pixel graphics — 10 challenging, well - designed boss battles — Hypnotic electronic score by composer Karl Flodin — Modern take on the classic Metroidvania genre: Players can freely explore the world at their own pace — Organic storytelling: The environments tell the story, along with some holo - tapes that are scattered around the drowned cities — Plausible plot driven by real - life issues: Explore the effects of climate change and technological progress

Disappearance of the physical hand with the rapid evolvement of technological means in art may signify drastic changes in collage making; however, pioneering examples of this genre continue to intrigue and challenge the viewer in terms of suggesting offbeat versions of the reality.

We already have many tools and approaches — economic, technological, behavioural, management — to deal effectively with the climate change challenge.

Updated, 1:47 p.m. A richly variegated four - day climate change conference, concluding yesterday in Paris, provided a sobering look at the mix of environmental, social and technological trends that have created humanity's planet - size challenge — fitting seemingly infinite aspirations safely in a climate system that is showing signs of disruptive human - driven change.

The challenges that the world faces in the next decades regarding climate change will likely have to be addressed by changing consumption patterns and technological innovations; changes in population size in the most developed countries, with the possible exception of the United States, is a relatively slow process that occurs over many decades and that will unlikely to have a significant impact on how the world resolves the challenges of climate change and resource constraints.

The mitigation of climate change constitutes a major technological and institutional challenge.

Given the potentially exponential growth in the magnitude and intensity of environmental challenges such as Climate Change, putting one's faith in continued solid economic growth and sufficient technological innovation seems foolhardy to say the least.

We affirm the critical role of technology and the need for technological breakthroughs in meeting the interlinked global challenges of energy security and climate change.

The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year on options for mitigating emissions concluded that stabilization of greenhouse gases could be accomplished with known technologies, but the new paper contends that the panel's assumptions about technological innovation made a daunting challenge look far more doable than it really is.

In selecting his team to carry us forward into a future in which the weather and climate patterns of the past can no longer be assumed to be valid indicators of future climate conditions affecting the economy and society, we hope the next President will swiftly and skillfully select a set of strong «climate leaders» with honesty, integrity, and dedication to bringing the best scientific and technological intelligence we can muster to bear on the host of climate change challenges we face.

, he already reproduces the most sticky frames: that unabated climate change is a huge (even catastrophic) problem; that political approaches to resolving the challenge have largely failed (and can not now be expected to work); and that novel technological responses are the most likely possibilities now — as ways to ameliorate climate impacts without deep changes in society.

While celebrating technology's achievements, he takes aim at those «ecomodernists» who believe that climate change is a technological challenge rather than a moral and political one.

... If you believe that solving the climate change problem «is fundamentally a technological challenge,» then we are in this mess not because of the power of the fossil fuel lobby, not because of the influence of the campaign of denial, not because of money politics, not because persuading consumers to accept a price on carbon seems too hard, and not because getting international cooperation has been fraught.

The report also highlights that there are several challenges remainaing, including climate change, policy uncertainty, difficulties in creating policy that keeps pace with technological change and structural issues in the electricity system.

Yet, the magnitude of the climate change challenge calls for proactive adaptation and technological and social innovation, areas where Canada and the U.S. have abundant capacity.

The technological challenge comes in when people ask for the moon or are simply looking for an excuse to delay economic change.

But the broader challenge for many firms is less strategic and more immediate: getting their lawyers to adopt current technological changes and fully integrate new technologies into the daily processes of their working lives.

I submit that over time a firm is challenged by both growth and technological change.

In coming decades, the planet faces an unprecedented challenge in the form of climate change and the only way to address it is through technological innovation and reduction of energy use.

Demographic transformation, the emergence of new centres of economic dynamism, accelerating inequality within and across nations, challenges to the existing social contract by a disillusioned, mobilized citizenry, technological and organizational transformation linking people directly as never before and climate change are all placing the foundations of our world and our global system under unprecedented stress.

Some of our corporate legal services team currently sit on the boards of both large corporations and non profits and are actively involved in dealing with the day - to - day legal challenges faced by modern executive boards, including how to stay protected in a rapidly changing technological landscape.

The Illinois State Bar Association Report contains a well - documented description of what it calls «The Big Picture» affecting the profession, including: the economic challenges plaguing lawyers, the lack of training for law students in the skills needed to succeed in the current climate, the reluctance of the population to use traditional legal services, and the technological changes redefining the way people work and enabling new actors to reshape the legal marketplace.

As we adjust to the realities of rapid technological advances and changing consumer behaviour, I am launching consultations to better understand the challenges

This course helps students understand the economic pressures, technological changes, and globalization facing the legal profession in the 21st century, and to assist students in successfully navigating their legal career given these challenges.

Yet, without breaking out of old moulds, without trying something new from time to time, without accepting that trying and failing is a necessary step to growth, the legal profession and justice system as a whole can not effectively move past the current challenges with respect to access to justice, homogeneity of the profession, technological innovation and consumer demand for change.

• IP is a dynamic and constantly evolving field, which provides opportunities to push the boundaries of the law and requires creative lawyering to use legislation that is often perceived as outdated when dealing with new challenges arising out of technological, economical, and social changes.

I quite agree — this book is a window on a profession in transition, meeting the challenge of rapid technological change with a sense of inquiry, with a mind to community and respect for the past.

Law firms currently face a myriad of challenges (to name just a few...): technological advances, changing market structure, big data, predictive analytics, business model re-design, alternative career structures, changing talent pools, emerging new working patterns, alternative talent requirements.

AFter years working through many challenges and difficulties around the world, Gates has a keen and immediate understanding of seeing technological changes from the ground up.

The rate of technological change means that our children's world is changing rapidly — the challenges we face as parents today is so different to previous generations.

Typically fears are induced by past employment or educational challenges, technological change, age, not knowing what's out there and a perceived loss of skills, relevance and self - confidence.

Real estate is an ever - changing business, and we're going to follow the technological changes and meet the challenges.»

So it occurred to me that it might be helpful to set out why I think that the brokerage compensation model has survived relatively unchanged after all these years, even with all the challenges of media hostility, technological change, and alternative business models.

The men and one woman profiled here have been catalysts for change: challenging traditional business models, defining fundamental market shifts, and embracing the diversity and technological promise of the new millennium.