You will appreciate the power of the Business Trends Library in bringing you Impacts which may affect your firm, which may arise a long way from your usual purview. People doing Business Environment Assessment generally do not look wide enough to discover Impacts which may affect them. This builds up to the conclusion that Scenarios need to be drawn from a comprehensive Data Base of the Business Environment. This you will get if you subscribe to Scenarios from the Business Trends Library.

Where an impact comes from a Sector which itself is in Open Access you will see how this operates, and how you can evaluate yourself how the Impact arises and its effect on your firm.

This is one of the Sectors about the notion that a large vestige of the primitive economy still exists in the home - things we must do for ourselves. Equipment in the home expands, aided by impacts from other Sectors. There is a growth of complexity, partly due to a rise in hygiene leading to increasing labour intensity. This is then reduced by machinery in the home. The Scenario is then one of automation of the home - which is going slower than originally thought. The reasons for this, and what has to happen for the full potential to be developed.

There is a Manufacturing Scenario largely about the higher technology level of automation favouring Multi-National Corporation manufacturers - who may be the innovators. This Sector is one involved with women having greater economic activities outside the home, through reduction in housework.

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