Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Contemporary Business
- Business
- Profit Seeking Activities
- Provide Goods and Services
- An Exchange between Buyers and Sellers
- Changes
- Economy
- Globalization
- Crisis
- Technology
- Internet
- Apple
- Wireless
- GPS
- Taobao
- Human Behavior
- Texting instead of talking
- Purchasing behavior
- Going green
- Environment
- Global warming
- Extreme weather
- Political
- Raising of third world countries
- Collapse of USSR
- European Union
- Issues
- Managing the Technology Revolution
- Streamline production
- From French Industrial Revolution
- To Globalized Virtual Production Network
- Creating new opportunities for organizational efficiency
- No limit to where business can be conducted
- Technology
- Positive impact
- Email to increase speed of communication
- Negative impact
- Contact lens vs eye glasses
- Email vs letter
- The Internet
- Faster, more direct, no physical barrier, reduce cultural barriers
- Direct purchase (buyers)
- Interactive relationships between businesses and customers
- Find their suppliers all over the world
- Expand to unreachable market (sellers)
- Not just limited by geography
- Expose to huge community of prospective cusomers
- New business ecology
- Revolutionized traditional business
- Online retail
- Online game
- Online services
- New business ideas
- Search engine
- Social website
- Marketing channels
- E-marketing
- Email
- Website marketing
- Video marketing
- YouTube
- Peer sharing via social networking
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Wireless communication
- Anytime, anywhere
- Not just in office, also on street
- Combine with GPS, location based technology
- Knowing you are here
- Location based services
- Improve efficiency
- Instant job status reporting
- Find nearby customers
- From Transaction Management to Relationship
- Sellers and buyers
- Transaction management
- Relationship management
- Nurture customer loyalty
- Reduce sales cycle
- Avoid price discounts
- Get customer referrals
- Technology played a role
- Email updates of latest products
- SMS confrontation of order
- Facebook promotion
- Strategic alliances and partnership
- A partnership formed to create a competitive advantage
- Most widely reported strategic alliances
- Creating Value through Quality and Customer Satisfaction
- Value
- Quality
- Degree of excellence
- Durability, performance, reliability
- Customer satisfaction
- Competing in a Global Market
- sourcing
- production
- sales
- Economic globalization
- Market and sell goods everywhere
- Purchase, assemble, shipping worldwide
- Material cost and quality, labor cost, government regulation, transportation infrastructure, etc.
- Developing and Sustaining a World-Class Workforce
- Why?
- Foster strong ties with customers and partners
- Capable to compete in global markets
- Brainpower of employees
- Knowledge development of employees
- Workforce Trend
- Aging population
- Teenagers are entering the workforce soon
- Seniors are staying longer
- Move seniors are having second career after retirement
- Shrinking labor pool
- Immigrants
- Increasingly diverse workforce
- Workforce m the diverse culture, ethnics
- Changing nature of work
- Manufacturing -> technologies -> services
- New Employer-employee Partnership
- Employee owned company
- Wanted: A New Type of Manager
- Intelligent, highly motivated
- Direction
- Intelligent
- Leader
- Managing Ethics and Social Responsibility
- Business ethics
- Poor
- Strong
- Social responsibility
- Vision
- Action
- Key Factors Affecting Business
- Technology
- Human Behavior
- Relationship era