Description: The aerospace and defense sector is an international multi-billion dollar industry. Key stakeholders include aircraft and aircraft component manufacturers, civil and military avionics service providers, governments, and privately funded research and development organizations. These organizations deliver aircraft and their components, as well as software and systems, such as modeling and simulation software, and data management, navigation, and surveillance systems. This industry is subject to a high level of government regulation, particularly the defense sector. As it adapts to the entrance of new global companies, the industry is moving towards a highly globalized supply chain.
Target Audience: Consulting houses, industry investors, and all size companies that sell products or services to other sectors and industries; organizations looking for knowledge and key business information in the aerospace & defense industry
Duration: 01:00
Description: The Consumer Electronics industry is made up of companies from around the world that manufacture electronic audio and video equipment for individual consumers and businesses. In this fast-moving industry, where some products are lucky to have a shelf life of more than a year, companies need to be able to adapt quickly. In addition, they face challenges related to increased regulation, and the need to continually lower prices to move their products off the shelves. But top industry players are able to adopt effective strategies to remain successful. For example, they might focus on improving their business and manufacturing processes in order to reduce their costs and thereby absorb the lower prices demanded by the market. Or they might increase their investment in research and development to address rapid technological change. This course is designed to help learners understand these challenges and some of the common strategies used to overcome them, as well as some of the other key concepts and terminology associated with the consumer electronics industry.
Target Audience: Consulting houses, industry investors, and all size companies that sell products or services to other sectors and industries; organizations looking for knowledge and key business information in the consumer electronics industry
Duration: 01:00
Description: The Broadcasting & Entertainment Industry is tasked with engaging its consumers with new and traditional forms of entertainment. The industry players deliver films, television programs, music, radio programs, electronic media, books, news, and an ever expanding array of entertainment products. It provides its customers throughout the world with access to these activities through an expanding number of media devices and channels. This industry has to adapt to new ways to create, distribute, and access its content according to consumer demands. The industry is challenged by decreasing advertising revenue from traditional sources, new media platforms, content piracy, and access to emerging markets. They address these issues by utilizing digital advertising, new business models, mergers and acquisitions, lobbying, litigation, and encryption techniques.
Target Audience: Consulting houses, industry investors, and all size companies that sell products or services to other sectors and industries; organizations looking for knowledge and key business information in the broadcasting & entertainment industry
Duration: 01:00
Description: The chemicals industry is comprised of thousands of companies throughout the world that use basic raw materials to produce chemicals that have commercial value to consumers and other industries. These chemicals are used to produce plastics, synthetic fibers, lightweight automobile parts, fertilizers, cosmetics, household materials, computers, and many more products. High energy consumption, high prices of raw materials, diminishing returns, and sustainability are among the challenges that companies in this industry face. They are addressing these challenges by improving existing processes, applying new supply chain management techniques, expanding the specialty chemicals business, and developing industrial biotechnology.
Target Audience: Consulting houses, industry investors, and all size companies that sell products or services to other sectors and industries; organizations looking for knowledge and key business information in the chemicals industry
Duration: 01:00
Description: The education industry provides its students with the knowledge and skills to adapt to a continually changing working world. The industry consists of an expanding array of organizations that seek to provide lifelong learning to its customers. These organizations include traditional colleges and universities as well as companies focused on training and development for clients that range from an individual learner to global corporations. As a whole, the industry is responsible for training individuals of all ages to learn new skills, obtain employment, and spur economic growth, by delivering education in traditional classroom settings or via distance training over the Internet. The education industry must adapt to the challenges of containing costs, differing views on standardized learning, competing for students, and adapting to changing economic needs. Industry players adopt unique strategies to overcome these challenges by forming education partnerships, adapting to new technologies, and developing customized and personalized learning programs.
Target Audience: Consulting houses, industry investors, and all size companies that sell products or services to other sectors and industries; organizations looking for knowledge and key business information in the education industry
Duration: 01:00
Description: The federal government industry is the world's largest service provider with primary responsibility to provide essential services to its citizens funded through its collection of taxes. A federal government is usually comprised of a host of governmental departments and various stakeholders, which can include, but are not limited to, individual states, provinces, and territories. A federal government delivers services, creates and enforces laws, maintains highways, collects taxes, defends national sovereignty, encourages investment, provides education, oversees environmental issues, and performs a host of other services to its citizens. Different nations, and their respective federal governments, all adopt strategies to overcome the challenges they face that can stagnate services, overextend budgets, cause intradepartmental barriers, and impede hiring the best employees. Federal governments are continually driven to find solutions through improving service delivery, reducing costs, opening departmental barriers, and attracting a talented workforce.
Target Audience: Consulting houses, industry investors, and all size companies that sell products or services to other sectors and industries; and organizations looking for knowledge and key business information in the federal government industry
Duration: 01:00