Despite the vast amount of trade-related information available and the possibility of accessing national and international databases, many small enterprises continue to rely heavily on private or even personal contacts for market related information.
Many enterprises will continue to operate this way in future, but additional capabilities are increasingly important: the strategic value of organizational capabilities such as agility (around the customer), connectivity (between complementary offerings), and innovativeness (to explore novel opportunities).
Many private businesses have complained that they are cut off from bank loans while state-owned enterprises continue to receive them.
Such enterprises continue to be called "political factories".
"Like any legal company, criminal enterprises continue to diversify and to expand," he said.
While growth in IoT markets seems destined to continue its inexorable march, many enterprise customers will continue to move cautiously until they can gain some reasonable assurance of security—not only of their data but also of the operations that increasingly rely on devices, sensors and the Internet of Things.
Lack of regulation, or lack of enforcement in many areas, allows untreated wastewater to be used to irrigate farmland, and the dumping of slag and sludge by industrial enterprises continues.
Labour-intensive enterprises continued to close, however, so unemployment remained high at more than 8%.
Behind a smoother-looking balance sheet, wasteful, politically directed lending to dud state-owned enterprises continued.
As strong enterprise cloud adoption continues, many enterprises are looking to achieve hybrid cloud capability to benefit from the flexibility of different cloud infrastructures for deploying their application portfolio.
