26 Nov Adverse Trends in Business

In today’s business environment, companies expect to contend with traditional business challenges such as technical operating issues, competitive markets and financial imperatives.  In addition, there are newer developing challenges such as; changing regulatory requirements and increasing expectations with respect to the environment and social license.

However as companies seek to respond to these internal and external pressures we see distinct trends in both how companies attempt to respond to these challenges as well as trends in how companies often fail to respond well or spend too much to address their challenges.  Some of the more significant adverse trends we see in business today include: