Paradigm Shifts

Australian mining company Fortescue is working to clean up its own operations by 2030, while developing green solutions it can sell to others. It's forking out into green tech through a subsidiary called Fortescue Future Industries, which has recently acquired Williams Advanced Engineering. Today,…

LPs accounted for 38 percent of album sales in the United States, which is quite substantial. Factoring in streaming and downloads of single tracks, however, that number drops to 4.7 percent of album equivalent music consumption, which puts things in perspective.

Schools across the district are releasing students two hours early every Friday to give teachers time to collaborate with each other and look at data to help inform what they’re teaching and how.

“It’s a paradigm shift,” Bartels Middle School Principal Tim Rueth said of professional learning communities, or PLCs, during a school board meeting last month.

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In recent years, the thinking on the future of work has focused on the need to reconfigure jobs—not to reimagine or replace them entirely. The reasoning goes like this: As alternative approaches to work have emerged such as artificial intelligence, automation, and off-balance-sheet talent, we need to disaggregate the job into component tasks, determine which tasks can be performed more optimally by smart machines or alternative talent outside of the organization’s walls, and then reassemble the remaining tasks with new ones to create a newly reconfigured job. Employees are then reskilled, upskilled, or outskilled to once again meet the needs of the newly reconfigured job, with automation substituting for, augmenting, or transforming the human worker’s role

Next year will be the year that most digital transformations shift into high gear and start to cruise.

The result could be the first major paradigm shift for document editors in decades. But it could also lead to new headaches for users, as companies upend their tried-and-true tools in pursuit of the next big thing.

By switching up the planting dates of soybeans, growers and retailers need to be open minded to the idea of altering their weed control programs.