Furthermore, all this debate concerning the euro monetary system and the future of Europe will remain entirely abstract unless it is articulated to the real trends of globalisation, which the financial crisis will powerfully accelerate, unless they are politically addressed by the peoples which they affect and their leaders.
The recent trends of globalisation, consumer pressure for responsiveness and reliability, and intense competition in the global trading community have made effective supply chain management a very challenging issue.
China provides a unique social-economic and political context for urban conservation and regeneration within the current trend of modernisation and globalisation.
Samsung has set up a handset laboratory with a staff of 300 in Beijing, and Siemens has moved a chunk of its mobile R&D to China.Think globalThis R&D boom in the developing world is part of a bigger trend: the globalisation of R&D.
There are many worrying trends in this modern era of globalisation, most notably the ease with which companies can operate and banks move money around, apparently outside any democratic parameters set by nations or an international community struggling to catch up with a rapidly liberalising context.
Whatever technology dominates, it is sure to change so quickly that those who have never known anything else will have the advantage, just as growing up speaking a language is much easier than learning it as an adult.Thanks to the pressures of globalisation, the business trends that have made the workplace so receptive to the young in America are spreading to other parts of the world.
A number of trends like globalisation, consolidation, specialisation and increased competitiveness can be discerned.
Laurence Yang, vice-chairman of the group, and a son-in-law of the founder, says that "the trend is globalisation: you need the best thinking money can buy".
He tries to explain to disgruntled folk that immigration is an inescapable effect of globalisation (though he criticises New Labour for encouraging the trend without managing its impact).
