It plans to install the first full-scale test model towards the end of this year.
StanChart, for its part, has pushed the network model towards investment banking.
Xi Jinping, China's president, is determined to shift his country's growth model towards services.
According to Maude, the government is moving away from a "simple accountability model", towards embedding openness and transparency as core operating principles of public services.
But the country's transition from an investment-led, heavy industry model, towards a services and consumer-led economy is proving to be a bumpy one.
Now it seems Microsoft's plan is to shift the entire development model towards universal applications that run across PC and console – indeed any machine that's compatible with the Universal Windows Platform.
Indeed vacation time has been slowly disappearing for American workers ever since the Reagan Revolution, which ushered in a violent shift in corporate culture away from the paternalistic post-New Deal model towards the current stock-price-is-God model.
"We appear to be seeing a continuing shift from a sustainable 'not for profit' model towards one with potentially calamitous, consistent and significant loss-making characteristics," Jones said.
"We appear to be seeing a continuing shift from a sustainable 'not for profit' model towards one with potentially calamitous, consistent and significant loss-making characteristics," Mr. Jones of Deloitte said.
His prize exhibit here is the Lisbon summit of March 2000, after which he boasted that the EU had moved decisively from the mainland's "old social model" towards a less regulated and more open economy.Really?
With the welcome change of ethos in international development and disability, some of the very big NGOs have real challenges in reorienting from this model towards a more social and human rights perspective" says Malcolm MacLachlan, professor of psychology at Trinity College Dublin, who has also carried out extensive research into disability and poverty.
