what is the significant changes in today’s business environment?
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Today's business is run with short-term goals.  Stockholders, who buy shares in a company, want a healthy return on their investment every 90 days.  If they don’t see that dividend, they’ll sell and buy something else.\n\nThese stockholders have no loyalty to the companies they own and are only using them for a vehicle to gain capitol.  General Motors is a prime example.  G.M. made many decisions in the ‘70s and ‘80s that were “long-term suicide.  Their executives acknowledged the eventual effect but said, “General Motors may have to leave the automotive business someday and build can openers, but that will be the decision somebody else will have to make at that time.”\n\nWell, “that time” is upon General Motors.  Those people who made those decisions did very well for themselves and the stockholders of their time, but at a cost of bankrupting the future of the company.  Thus is business in today’s world.  “I’ll grab mine and the next guy will have to do whatever he feels necessary to get his.”  (The grandkids may well be working all day for a bowl of rice and three dried fish, but that’s not our problem.)\n\nJohnny
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does it make a difference now?\nb
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Peak oil\nEmerging industrial nations raise demand\nPrice gouging\nproduction slowdowns\ncollusion
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yes very much so in the recent times.
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What do you think about changes which will happen beginning with this year's elections?
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Business has never been as competitive, fast and eveloving as it is today. Easy and boundry less communication and integrating global economy is a reason for it. In such a global economy only those businessess survive which are better placed and managed.\n\nHuman resource is the most important element of any organizaiton and it is also the most difficult to manage element within the business. So managerial knowledge is utmost important in steering a business in todays global economy.\n\nStategic management is totally different. It is the process of putting the strategy together and implementing it within an organizaiton. A strategy is broadly classified in 3 level: Corporate Level Strategy, Business Unit Strategy, and Functional Level Strategy. Corporate level strategy is the strategy for the whole business, ie where the business is going, how should it grow/expand, what business areas it should concentrate and areas it should leave. Strategic managment basically deals with this segment of corporate planning.\n\nIn todays business world it is the most important function of corporate planning and business management, without which a business might loose focus, run wayward and waste resources.
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crop cirles... visitors from other worlds\nstonehenge .. powerful energy centre\norbs .. dust and moisture caught on high speed lenses\n\nbut yes there have been many interesting things happen in the past few decades and i am sure we are going through a slow spiritual change
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Today is the generation of information technology.To have information of your surroundings and keep pace with the world you need to have up-to date information. not only a Business men needs to kept informed about the changes of rules and trend in given market , you should have even students to kept well informed about the new sub branches of the Fields they are studying so that they can decide more accurately the Carrier they want to choose .Not only information tells you to carry umbrella today or not the information of how to make a good dish in TV show can make you mouth watering when you find nice colored dish made by your wife witch she watched on TV. Not only TV gives you news it can tell your grand parents the new developments in medical science so that they can have little more hope and chance to live more comfortably. I think i have given you quite a bit of information.
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I'm not sure what your homework answer is supposed to be, but the primary changes that occurred were the expansion of consumer credit and television advertising.\n\nTV ads made products more visible to large numbers of people (consumers) and credit allowed people to buy more than they could otherwise.
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The Quagmire in Iraq\nThe Addiction to Oil resulting in disproportionate contribution to global warming\nThe continued piling-on of taxes and fees on small businesses while corporations get huge breaks\nAn aging population which will require some massive changes in how we deal with taking care of our parents and ourselves
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Sales estimates, inventory levels, raw material prices, interest rates, labor availability & costs.\n\nLots of stuff to consider.
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None. All professions have been changed in some form or another by IT. Even monks. And candle makers... publishers..mine workers....etc. etc. However, the Amish might be another story.
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You can find some information here \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift
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Yes, not any time soon, but expect the trend to increase as companies find ways to reduce costs. Get into management and your job will be saved.
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also changing the way procedures in the company happen, merging of groups from the two companies, a different corporate culture (from jeans to suits & ties)
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The world work and market place is going through enormous change, and at a rate unprecidented in recorded history. \n\nWhat this means is that nobody can be garanteed a career for life, and it is critical to develop you skills to match the pace of change.
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a paradigm shift is required when quality or costs of traditional suppliers devalues the current product and makes it less competitive in the marketplace.  This can occur when suppliers cheapen down their costs to manufacture parts resulting in more defects than before.