https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2093 Index terms fr 0 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1534 Every enterprise determines the objectives of its activity and operates in such a way as to make the defined and pursued objectives created favourable conditions for the most profitable effects. An enterprise is characterized by large internal complexity. At the same time it is subjected to many factors of various nature. They influence its competitiveness understood as a quality which determines the enterprise's abilities to create constant development tendency, productivity increase (measured on the micro scale) and to develop markets while the competitors offer goods or/and services which are: newer, better and cheaper. Enterprises - participants of the market game, make present operational decisions of strategic range, which refer to the future. Therefore, there is a necessity to carry out muli-parameter and multi-factor analysis of the current condition of the enterprise, market situation and mutual relations occuring between real market competitors. This, in turn, leads to the necessity of effective forecasting. Competitiveness, the enterprise's quality, is connected with the environment in which it operates. If we assume that the enterprise formulates competitiveness increase as its strategic goal we can state that at the same time it determines methods of its accomplishment closely related to the goal. These methods are designed to help the enterprise in running business effectively in market economy - now and in the future. Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:04:25 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:27:32 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1534 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3123 The paper deals with a certain fragment of global economic undertakings. This fragment involves methods applied in anticipating future states of processes and effects which these processes cause. These methods have been worked out in the last 100 years and were based on research carried out by companies operating on homogeneous local markets. They are used to analyze single financial, manufacturing, technical, social and other problems. Some of them allow to discover the effect of mutual influence of individual processes, namely, the effect of synergy. However, most of these methods are totally unsuitable for analyzing current global economy. The aim of the paper is to point out certain particular possibilities of improving the existing situation, at least partially. Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:58:52 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:23:52 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3123 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1551 The aim of this paper is to present the author's opinion on the methods used in scientific research whose results are to be applied in practice. It mainly refers to the research whose results describe global problems. This paper's role is also to attract attention to the necessity of system consideration of the anticipation problem (Adamkiewicz, 1997a, 1998b, 1998d, 1998c, 1998e). This view maybe justified on the basis of many sources as well as the author's own research. The process of economic, cultural and social globalization was given as an example of a process in which anticipation plays an essential role (Adamkiewicz, 1995a, 1996, 1997b, 1997e, 1998a, 1999b). Activity anticipating the future should at the same time involve a whole set of such processes. Separate consideration of every process included in the set leads to neglecting the effect of synergy (Adamkiewicz, 1997c, 1997d). At present each particle process is analysed separately applying the non system methods. These methods are in correct (Adamkiewicz, 1989, 1990a, 1990b, 1999c). It is a mistake to use, for example, Maslow's Needs Hierarchy Theory, Pareto's Rule and other methods (Adamkiewicz 1997a, 1999c). The discussed processes take place in arranged social-economic-technical systems. The author postulates the application of proper methods of their analysis. It refers to the theory of chaos due to the non-linear nature of the processes. It also refers to the forecasting methods applied in technical sciences. These methods, based on the theory of change, are the basis of current designing as concept preparation for any social, economic or technical activities. It is also important to draw the attention to the fact that after a period of fascination there is now a backward trend as far as system and cybernetics methods are concerned. Such harmful tendency maybe reversed by arousing interest in the philosophy of the East among certain groups of scientists. This philosophy, on the contrary to the philosophy of the West, is based on system perception of the world. Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:53:04 +0200 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:41:55 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1551 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2092 In the previous works the author discussed various aspects of the course of globalization processes. The essence of the problem was to search for the possibilities of steering these processes in the proper way. This paper presents the proposition concerns the realization of interdisciplinary research. This research consists in summing up the results obtained within various sciences. Tue, 30 Jul 2024 08:58:51 +0200 Tue, 30 Jul 2024 08:58:58 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2092