Discuss the cultural factors organizations must understand in order to do business on a global scale. What are some of the major challenges that these, present to the development of global systems? Which two factors (one of each) do you feel are most problematic at the current moment? Why?

 

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Discuss the cultural factors organizations must understand in order to do business on a global scale.

• The factors to understand in order to do business on a global scale are the transportation technologies and the global communication.  
• New technologies are changing the way we design, outline, fabricate, and work transportation systems.Transport offices utilize them to tally movement, identify crashes, gather tolls and charges, and oversee travel operations and activity flag frameworks. 
• Global Communication is the term used to portray approaches to associate, share, relate and activate crosswise over geographic, political, monetary, social and social partitions. It rethinks delicate and hard power and data power and strategy in ways not considered by conventional hypotheses of global relations.
• Therefore they both have an impact on the global business. 

What are some of the major challenges that these, present to the development of global systems?

Global

• Cultural particularism: Regionalism, nationalism and language differences
• Social expectation: Brand name expectation,work hours
• Political Laws: Transborder and privacy laws, commercial regulations

Specific Standards:

• Different Electronic Data interchange,
• e-mail,
• telecommunication standards.

Reliability:

• Phone networks not uniformly reliable

Speed:

• Different data transfer speed, many slower than the US.

Personnel:

• Shortage of skilled constants.

Which two factors (one of each) do you feel are most problematic at the current moment? Why?

1. Material culture

• This includes the technological goods used by the majority of the population, personal transport (including car ownership) and the availability of resources such as electricity, natural gas, telephone, Internet and wireless communication.

2. Cultural preferences

• Each international market will have varying preferences for products, foods, product/food quality levels, and even brands. The meaning of shapes, colours and iconic features can also have different cultural significance. These cultural differences must be taken into account to determine whether products are suitable for a market or whether they can be adapted for greater business success.