The Competitive Strength of the Information and by H. J. van Houten (auth.), H. J. van Houten (eds.)

By H. J. van Houten (auth.), H. J. van Houten (eds.)

In entrance people lies a slightly targeted examine. targeted in recognize of either its initiative and its manage. This examine is the results of a personal initiative of a global association of administration consultancy organisations. it's the first time that this kind of huge foreign examine was once undertaken together by means of person consulting organizations in lots of various international locations. additionally the tactic used might be characterised as 'from the ground up'. Representatives of virtually a hundred corporations in seven eu nations have been interviewed via seven person administration consultancy enterprises at the foundation in their personal popularity and contacts. not just the well known multinationals within the details and communique participated, but in addition medium-sized and small businesses in addition to govt organizations. The research makes a speciality of one region of that's thought of to be of top value for employment in Europe, viz. the data and communique undefined. it really is more often than not assumed that very important tools for the stimulation and strengthening of Europe's place during this box are: aid of festival inside Europe greater coordination of R&D efforts superior harmonization of ideas, criteria and laws larger coordination and schooling programmes elevated stimulation and counsel by means of governments. This learn places those assumptions to the attempt. It assesses the cutting-edge concerning those tools and identifies the activities had to increase the current situation.

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36 The above mentioned approach will initially reduce employment, but offer a much better perspective for more employment, after a period of approximately 5 years. These conclusions are based on the assumption that: Europe wants a European information and communication industry Europe wants to cooperate to reach that goal a total coherent plan can be composed for that goal. Ifon the other hand, we assume the following conditions: the European industry cannot cooperate because of selfish, nationalistic attitudes the changing of the individualistic approach of our society proves too difficult the lack of sufficient funds to implement a good, coherent plan the European markets can only be developed after the Americans and the Japanese have set the examples.

To promote normalization and unification of rules, procedures, etc. The EC and EICA should reduce the flow of European capital to the other continents by promoting the use of that capital for new applications of the European information and communication industry. If the concept of an EICA cannot be effectuated, the EC could strive for a coherent plan through a more elaborate ESPRIT-approach and try to implement this plan as much as possible in cooperation with some European governments. The EC and the European governments should open the frontiers and in general create such conditions that the European industry can take its share of the worldmarket.

ECMA and CCITT have a good reputation. The rivaltries between ISO and IEC at the international level and between CEN and CENELEC at the European level are seen as counter- productive. Furthermore, the systematic penetration of ISO by IBM is resented. 2 Possible improvements Except for CCITT, where the representatives from PTT organizations have enough decision making power, normalization organizations, are seen as very cumbersome. To speed up procedures and improve the efficiency of committees, the qualification of permanent staff of normalization organizations should be improved.

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