This paper analyzes the major trends in the business environment that shaped the business models adopted by companies and their new marketing strategies. It adopts a desktop research methodology by collecting data from previous academic papers, statistical, and analytical reports. It starts by analyzing the globalization trend that forced most of the emerging economies to liberalize and privati...

Cross-sector competition in the information and communications technology sectors (ICT sectors) constitutes a key strategic challenge for telecommunications companies. Due to increasing convergence, value creation is resulting in a greater degree of interaction. The diversification potential of telecommunications businesses is therefore changing with respect to associated ICT sectors, such as h...

This paper is aimed to show the great importance of knowledge as a vital strategic resource for modern business, at the beginning 21st century. The turbulent business environment, with global trends and the stringent competition in the world market resulted in the significant changes that companies should introduce in their current business operations. The changes are necessary for survival in ...

In many countries, particularly developing countries, economic reforms, especially privatization, are considered as a strategic approach. The growth of the government decreases the competition in the market, and so, some fields should be privatized in order to create the competition.  By moving towards privatization and the changes in competition methods and the presentation of the World Trade,...

Nowadays, increasing competition among companies and the huge cost of attracting new customers has led to companies seeking to retain existing customers rather than looking to attract new customers. These factors together have led to the emergence of customer relationship management. Thanks to the development of information and communication technology, especially the Internet, the use of custo...

Beginning in the mid-1980s, policymakers, particularly in rural areas, realized that they could no longer rely only on attracting large branch plants to sustain their economies. Increasing competition from newly developed and less developed low-wage nations was erasing their cost advantages. The more creative development agencies began to rechannel efforts towards stimulating entrepreneurial ac...

spurred by intensifying competition in global markets, most companies have been increasingly implementing supply chain management (scm) and information systems (is) practices. as well, globalization policies have created a more intensive competition amongst manufacturers; in additional the priority of supply over demand, market competition and importance of some factor such as quality, accounta...