Modernization: Upgrading the system with more modern technologies and management.
"The Portuguese government launched a technological plan as a political idea to mobilize the state, business and citizens around critical drivers of modernization: knowledge, technology and innovation.
This chapter presents a case study that describes the modernization methods, technology, and processes employed by Thales Air Systems S.A., a leading major global provider of air traffic management systems and The Software Revolution, Inc. (TSRI), an industry leader in automated legacy system modernization.
This chapter presents a case study, which describes a pilot modernization project at a major US company and includes a description of the modernization methods, technologies, and processes employed in the project.
In the drive for modernization, evolving technologies and economical and social structures alter existing systems and make many sectors and groups in the ecosystems more vulnerable to significant variations in climate and sea level Ericksen et al. (1993).
This includes, among others, a substantial increase of the renewable energy share in the global energy mix, doubling global energy efficiency rates, as well as according infrastructure expansion and modernization and technology upgrades for supplying sustainable energy services.
He repeatedly represents both the constructive and destructive potential of modernization and technology.
But as with all other large industries, modernization and technology has finally reached the doorstep of Goldman Sachs.
School Construction: $20 billion, including $14 billion for K-12 and $6 billion for higher education, for renovation and modernization, including technology upgrades and energy efficiency improvements.
Without the energy assets, analysts said, the steel company would have more difficulty raising the equity and debt capital it needs to keep pace in technology and modernization.
