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Six Global Trends Shaping Business Strategy
15th June 2011
This is a cross posting from the Business Studies blog because it strikes me as being SO useful for A2 students in particular as they look to include synoptic arguments and ideas into the evaluation this June. This new report by consultants Ernst & Young is a pinch of gold dust for such students, as it examines in a reasonably accessible way six broad, long-term developments which shape business around the globe.
Here is a link to the Ernst & Young report.
(1) Emerging markets increase their global power (changing balance of global power in trade / investment / innovation
(2) Cleantech becomes a competitive advantage (environmental investment and competitive advantage)
(3) Global banking seeks recovery through transformation (banking reforms and the nature of any economic recovery)
(4) Governments enhance ties with the private sector (public private partnerships, sovereign wealth funds, new competition laws)
(5) Rapid technology innovation creates a smart, mobile world (the global war for talent)
(6) Demographic shifts transform the global workforce (economic of inter and intra country migration)
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.