How Business Can Survive in the Coming Millennium?. A Business Valuation Model Applied at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation - Using Factor, Discriminate and Logit Analysis

      Аннотация: To survive and prosper in the political, social, and economic climate of the coming millennium, organizations must achieve viability by aligning purpose, people, strategies, and structures. Without this convergence and adaptive evolution the combined factors of global competition, technological change, evolving markets, and increased capital needs may overcome the organization's ability to adapt to the environment. These scenarios can affect a decline in performance. This research has examined select performance indicators, and certain predictors of failure, to construct a valuation model and to propose a change strategy to turnaround performance decline. Factor, Discriminate and Logit analysis are used for Evaluating Strategy Building and Persuasive Business Environment at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. Results show that KPC has human resources, technical, financial to face future challenges is very significant. These analysis were used in evaluating the training Provided by KPC, evaluating data bank, research and consulting activities, evaluating the effectiveness of internal communication and evaluating the management style at KPC.

Ключевые слова: Bench-marking, empirical research, Factor Analysis, Global Competitiveness, human resources, product life cycle, strategic management, discriminate analysis, logit analysis