scholarly journals Shifting Sands: A Review of Global Trends in the Current Business Environment and a Preview into the Future

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mansi Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
Business Environment ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
The Future ◽  
Current Business

Developing the Disruptors

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-40
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Strategic Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Right ◽  
Current Business

Disruptive leaders possess a deep understanding of the nonobvious. Developing solutions with a heightened creativity, solving problems and addressing risks, finding the right tradeoffs, and recognizing the wicked opportunities in the wicked problems, disruptive leaders scan the environment, identify trends, and envision the future. Often, this is done by finding superior solutions, products, and services. However, this is done with a strategic process and plan. In our current business environment, right when we get comfortable, we find ourselves having to adjust to a major change that requires us to shift time, energy, and resources to solve a problem or stay ahead of the market, or change our market. Every change that we encounter creates winners and losers. If we are disruptive in our leadership, these changes can bring about fabulous innovation and create new technologies that benefit humankind. Building a disruptive organization is the best way to thrive. This chapter explores developing the disruptors.

The Internationalization of Vietnamese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari Kokko ◽  
Fredrik Sjöholm
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Qualitative Information ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
The Future ◽  
Current Business

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been important for Vietnam's rapid economic development. This paper investigates the ways in which Vietnam's SMEs have been affected by the ongoing internationalization of the Vietnamese economy and points out the challenges that lie ahead if the country's plans for further trade liberalization are realized. The basis of our analysis is a unique database on the activities of a large sample of Vietnamese SMEs during 1990, 1996, and 2002, with quantitative data about company operations, as well as qualitative information about the entrepreneurs' perceptions of the current business environment and their expectations about the future.

A corpus-based investigation of techno-optimism and propositional certainty in the National Intelligence Council’s ‘Future Global Trends Reports’ (2010–2035)

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-57
Author(s):  
Jamie McKeown
Keyword(s):  
Global Trends ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Ideological Bias ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Global Peace ◽  
Discursive Representations

This article reports the findings from a study of discursive representations of the future role of technology in the work of the US National Intelligence Council (NIC). Specifically, it investigates the interplay of ‘techno-optimism’ (a form of ideological bias) and propositional certainty in the NIC’s ‘Future Global Trends Reports’. In doing so, it answers the following questions: To what extent was techno-optimism present in the discourse? What level of propositional certainty was expressed in the discourse? How did the discourse deal with the inherent uncertainty of the future? Overall, the discourse was pronouncedly techno-optimist in its stance towards the future role of technology: high-technological solutions were portrayed as solving a host of problems, despite the readily available presence of low-technology or no-technology solutions. In all, 75.1% of the representations were presented as future categorical certainties, meaning the future was predominantly presented as a known and closed inevitability. The discourse dealt with the inherent uncertainty of the subject matter, that is, the future, by projecting the past and present into the future. This was particularly the case in relation to the idea of technological military dominance as a guarantee of global peace, and the role of technology as an inevitable force free from societal censorship.

Book Review: The Future of Evaluation: Global Trends, New Challenges, Shared Perspectives

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-458
Author(s):  
Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton ◽  
Michael Quinn Patton
Keyword(s):  
Global Trends ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Challenges

scholarly journals The Concept and Importance of Alternative Strategy as Parallel Strategy to be followed in Organizational Decisions to Ensure Success

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. S. Aithal ◽  
Architha Aithal
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Alternative Strategy ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Strategy Model ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Lateral Thinking ◽  
Generic Strategies ◽  
Current Business

Organizations and individuals usually have well defined objectives at any given point of time and invest their resources systematically to fullfill the objectives by setting their goal and formulating and following a strategy to chase their goal. Various strategies are used to chase the goal in both organizational and individual cases include competitive strategies or red ocean strategies, monopoly or blue ocean strategies, sustainability or green ocean strategies, survival or black ocean strategies, and mixed or white ocean strategies. The complexities of business decisions after globalization of business and technification of business processes, winning or sustaining or even surviving in current business is considered as an intensive challenge for organizations and also to individuals. In such environment called the turbulent business or social environment for organizations and individuals respectively, a new strategy for survival called “Alternative Strategy” is proposed in this paper and the concept of the strategy, its importance in the current business environment for organizational decisions are discussed. The paper also looks into the understanding of the Generic strategies, their applicability and constraints while identifying the importance of alternative strategy. Eight postulates are developed to support the concept of alternative strategy, and an alternative strategy model is suggested using lateral thinking techniques. The model consists of evaluating and comparing the alternative strategy with primal strategy using ABCD analysis framework. Such model of alternative strategy can be used at operational level, tactical level, and strategic level of any organization to realize its objectives.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PAKAR TERHADAP TINGKAT TURBULENSI LINGKUNGAN ORGANISASI BISNIS TELEKOMUNIKASI SELULAR DI INDONESIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwi Idawati ◽  
Arya Hadi Dharmawan ◽  
Sjafri Mangkuprawira
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Telecommunication Industry ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Mobile Telecommunication ◽  
Corporate Leadership ◽  
The Past ◽  
Turbulent Environments ◽  
The Future

The key challenge for the telecommunication business industry in the global world’s is “assuring competitiveness and profitability” for their companies in turbulent environments. Never in history has the pace of change in the business environment been as rapid as it is now. Recent developments such as the global marketplace, customers’ demands that are differentiated by different buying power and product preferences in this environment, technological leadership is one of the key success factor. New technologies and new industries develop rapidly and customers are prepared to pay for the most newest technology. The company’s strengths and successful strategies of the corporate leadership in the past are likely to remain relevant in the future. The research findings revealed that the turbulent environment level in the mobile telecommunication industry was in the discontinuous –strategic level, where the future is not extension of the past. This environment situation facing by Indonesia’s telecomunication industry need the corporate leadership to challenge the organisation survival. This research is based on the qualitative descriptive method by using data obtained from telecommunication industry experts and secondary data.

scholarly journals ATTITUDE OF SLOVAK SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES TOWARDS RISK MANAGEMENT – INVESTIGATION OF THE REGIONAL DIFFERENCES

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matej Masár ◽  
Mária Hudáková
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Employee Education ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Current Business

Contemporary trends highlight the need for education in each enterprise. The current business environment is characterized by many changes such as increased customer expectations and high levels of competitiveness in the environment. World trends, shows, that managers and owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perceived the need to take care of risk management in their enterprise. This issue has been analyzed and discussed for a long time. It is necessary to concentrate on this field mainly in the Slovak Republic. SMEs in Slovakia are very sensitive to changes in the environment. The aim of this paper is to investigate regional differences in the attitude of Slovak SMEs towards risk management, with special emphasis on the attitude towards significance of the education in the field of risk management based on empirical research, which was provided by authors in 2017. This paper will evaluate: the level of dependence between the selected Slovak regions and the created space for discussion about risks in SMEs, the level of dependence between selected Slovak regions and the created space for employee education in risk management in SMEs, and the level of dependence between selected Slovak regions and the required education possibilities in the field of risk management. It will use: association, the Pearson’s coefficient and the Tschuprov coefficient for evaluating the results. Overall results of the empirical research point towards the significance and importance of using risk management in SMEs. The results, shows, that there is a very large association between investigating dependence. Based on the results, it is necessary to improve the level of education in the field of risk management, which will be based on current entrepreneurial requirements.

scholarly journals Strategi Menyiasati Perubahan Bisnis: Kasus BMT Al-Ittihad

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
Nofrizal Nofrizal ◽  
Prama Widayat
Keyword(s):  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Market Penetration ◽  
Internal Environment ◽  
Horizontal Integration ◽  
Matrix Space ◽  
The Future ◽  
Space Matrix

This research aims to formulate and select BMT Al- Ittihad Rumbai strategy to face the changing of business environment both from internal environment such as organization resources, finance, member and external  business such as competitor, economy, politics and others. This research method used Analysis of EFAS, IFAS, IE Matrix, SWOT-8K Matrix, SPACE Matrix and TWOS Matrix. our hope from this research it can assist BMT Al-Ittihad in formulating and selecting strategies for the sustainability of BMT Al-Ittihad in the future. The sample in this research is manager and leader of BMT Al-Ittihad Rumbai Pekanbaru. The result of this research shows that the position of BMT Al-Ittihad using IE Matrix, SWOT-8K Matrix and SPACE Matrix is in growth position, stabilization and aggressive. The choice of strategy after using TWOS Matrix is market penetration, market development, vertical integration, horizontal integration, and stabilization  

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