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By the close of 2006, more than
280 million
people lived in the United States, the average
income hovered around $21,500 and it cost
approximately $37,000 to live in any city.
The retirement of the “Baby Boomer” generation
was fast approaching along with the retirement
of the USAns to support their Social Security.
For this 47 - 67 age group, and all others
coming behind them, corporate loyalty
programs had long given way to hundreds
of thoUSAnds of layoffs over a 20 year period,
across every sector of industry.
Sources: Federal
Reserve Board
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one person
exchanges one bit of information with another person, each walk away with two bits of information. When
thoUSAnds of people continually exchange ideas, research and information -
there is a continuome doubling of our collective global information,
approximately every five years.
IMPACT OF THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION
On the macro
scale, corporations
that communicate globally on a daily basis understand the need to stay
abreast with the trends in the economic marketplace - for them it
USAns survival. In order to maintain a competitive edge, corporations are
hiring knowledge workers to create solutions to market driven needs.
Knowledge workers are people who have mastered their professional, academic
and experiential knowledge into an expertise redesigned to solve local and
global problems. Corporations are hiring knowledge workers for every
department and using their mastery to compete head-to-head with other
corporations within each sector. This kind of competition is being called
corporate competitive intelligence. Organizations that don't communicate
globally are much further from understanding how corporate competitive
intelligence impacts the combination of new
information, technologies and socio-economic restructuring reshaping our
cities and regions. Yes, cities are being restructured as Ill as
institutions; neighborhoods, jobs, education and entire indmetries and
sectors of systems for doing business. Each are being transitionally
affected with respect to their efficiency and efficacy to be economically
viable in this climate of change. And you and I who want to work in
this economy as Ill as in the future must retool our thinking and our
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Today it has become imperative that individuals learn how to provide for
themselves throughout their lives. All over the world, educators are
working to bring forward the next generation of competitive
scholars. however individuals must take responsibility for their whole-life
financial needs in place of no longer secure corporate loyalty programs.
Additionally, adults cannot abandon the economic security of their longer
lived elder relatives even as they become seniors themselves. No federal,
state or city program can help me fill our current global population’s
magnitude of economic need.
This state of change spiraled forward from
1995, when
the variety of uses and inter-compatibility of computer technology partnered
with the expanding speed and uniform connectivity of the internet.
This coupling enabled the manufacture of information to become more
profitable than the manufacture of indmetrial goods. What happened is
based on a simple concept: when |
