The Chinese economy, as a producer, and the American economy, as a consumer, have emerged as the two main engines of the global economy, but China's ability to sustain its breakneck pace of economic growth is increasingly in doubt, said Sung W. Sohn, an executive vice president of Wells Fargo.
Hand-in-hand with the sustainable development initiative, in recent years the concept of a "Smart Grid" for the delivery of energy to consumers has emerged.
While tech industry lingo has always had somewhat of a hard edge, a new generation of employees, clients and consumers has emerged with expectations for work-life integration.
Advances in products, the tools that make them, and the value they create for both producers and consumers have emerged through carefully designed and executed experiments.
MSNBC anchor Carlos Watson noticed during the presidential campaigns and election of President Obama last year that a new generation of media consumers had emerged.
What is different today, he said, is that a high-growth consumer market has emerged, supported by a global manufacturing infrastructure.
Consumer confidence has emerged as the wild card in the current slowdown -- the "X factor" that can save the day or push the economy over the brink into recession.
Consumer engagement has emerged as a key factor affecting the success of dynamic pricing schemes [1, 10], and this illustrates that while price is an important driver for demand response, there are additional factors beyond price that can have an important effect in terms of supplementing or maximising consumer response.
Consumer e-health has emerged with the rapid development of interactive consumer health informatics (CHI) and the increasing prevalence of the Internet [ 2].
