MANAGEMENT

Systems And Operations Management - Critical Evaluation Of The Competitive Factors

[Institute's Name]Systems And Operations Management - Critical Evaluation Of The Competitive Factors

Introduction

Placing belief in the common notion that the broad dynamics of the modern world, in which the flourishing and uncompromising corporate arena operates in, will certain become incapacitated, provided it is deprived of utilizing not only the advancements of the modern era, but also the new dimension of operations that the business arena has sought its way through. The remonstration of the increasing dependability on mechanical or rather computerized processes or aspects, reside in the argument and rationale that they have drastically superseded the manual demonstration of skills and labor, as well as the element of human cognitive insight.

However, the advocates and beneficiaries of the technical advancements, affirm and defend the increasing prevalence, by terming it to be the necessity and requirement of the modern world, which is not only incessantly heading towards advancement, but is experiencing relentless variation on constant basis. With the corporate arena being the direct recipient of the new technical aspects, with the increasing enhancements of the operations, existing systems and the traditional processes; the detour that has been endorsed, now seems to have been inevitable.

No matter what arguments and debates have been rendered forward by the opponents of the induction of technological aspects in the operations and processes of the corporate arena, the truth resides at the fact, that extensive betterment and amelioration has been witnessed in the operations pertaining to the internal working of firms, the aspect of combating competition, and most importantly the closeness and significant insights of the customers.

Background

The concepts furnished in the introductory section, would be pivotal in coercing a naïve mind to abrade its thinking scalp to the extreme layer. Given the dynamics of the modern world, there lies no doubt about the fact that every other arena, existing in this world, besides the corporate arena, is extensively dependent on the endowments of these technical advancements. However, the real question for the naïve mind arises, as though how did these technical aspects found their way in the corporate arena and became indefinably indispensable, and the factors that paved way for them.

At the outset, it can be said that the ever increasing endeavors taking place in the domain of science, with the struggle of inventing better technology one after another, for the better living and facilitation of human lives and the societies that we are living in, was amongst the pivotal causes. Moreover, the core matter that compelled these technical and scientific advancements to take a detour towards the corporate arena, was the ever increasing phenomenon of globalization. It will not be inaccurate to eloquently articulate the fact that globalization had been a critical and rather vital element in lowering the distances and differences between the countries and blocks of the world.

With the lowered barriers, pertaining to the communication and trade, countless individuals are flowing from the developing world to the developed world, in search ...