Andrew Zacharakis, a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College outside Boston, said Scale Computing's owners followed a classic entrepreneurial path of shifting gears as necessary to seize real, as opposed to perceived, opportunities.
I've come to see this personality shift as natural and necessary.
If, as a "policy scientist," I am capable of making one tiny contribution to that juncture of science and society, I will regard my winding and shifting educational path as necessary and meaningful, albeit nontraditional.
His chancellor, George Osborne, appears to think that "sustainable growth" means any type of growth that can be sustained for more than two quarters, rather than the profound shift in thinking acknowledged as necessary by reputable scientists.
"Companies want a simple, modular installation framework," McLuckie told me — and they want to be able to shift their consumption model as necessary.
The hope is that companies will upload that information and feel good about it being stored securely and that they can quickly update and shift around credential information as necessary.
This conversion entailed a titanic shift from seeing slavery as necessary for civilization (as the ancients believed) to seeing it as necessarily uncivilized.
In this case, the system would allow homeland security officials to monitor travel on a national level, shifting resources and responding as necessary.
In addition, the iterative nature of ethnographic data collection and analysis allows preliminary results to be shared with clinical and HIT partners as implementation unfolds, supporting mid-stream shifts in implementation strategies, as necessary.
As Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls pointed out, this led Osborne to shift from justifying the cuts as necessary to maintain the AAA rating, to pointing out the rating downgrade justified the cuts.
