Bustin Invites Participants in Business Climate Survey.Business Editors & High Tech Writers DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 2002 Poll Takes Economic Pulse; Explores Impact of Technology on Business Conditions Bustin & Co. is seeking the views of executives about the U.S. economy and business priorities in a quarterly survey of industry leaders, and will issue an updated Bustin Business Climate Index(SM) (BBCI) with the fresh results at the end of this month. The 4Q 2002 survey is located on the consulting firm's Web site, www.bustin.com, and is being distributed via an email newsletter from the online magazine Business Champion at www.fullerman.com. To subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; the newsletter, email franklin@fullerman.com. Bustin & Co. also produces a monthly bulletin focused on a single business topic that is sent via email. To see a collection of the bulletins and to subscribe to it and to receive notification of future BBCI surveys and results, visit the firm's Web site. The BBCI analyzes seven key business indicators to measure overall short- and long-term business confidence. Scaled from one to five, the BBCI value from last quarter's survey for short-term confidence (through Sept. 30) was 3.2, with the long-term value (through March 31, 2003) slightly higher - and unchanged from the previous quarter - at 3.6. The Index showed that business leaders had a mood of dogged determination to hold on for better times, yet felt stalemated stale·mate n. 1. A situation in which further action is blocked; a deadlock. 2. A drawing position in chess in which the king, although not in check, can move only into check and no other piece can move. tr.v. by a market that has been unsettled by the economic downturn, corporate scandals A corporate scandal is a scandal involving allegations of unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. A corporate scandal sometimes involves accounting fraud of some sort. and a slowdown in big-company spending. In addition to the standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. BBCI questions, the survey asks respondents to identify factors they anticipate will pull the economy out of its current stall. In this edition of the survey, Bustin asks participants to assess whether the reliance upon and investment in high technology has proven to be a disappointment or if it is providing a motor for growth. "It seems the economy is in a pattern of taking two steps forward and one step back, confounding confounding when the effects of two, or more, processes on results cannot be separated, the results are said to be confounded, a cause of bias in disease studies. confounding factor all the experts' predictions of when we'll see a recovery and better times," said Greg Bustin, president of Bustin & Co. "A couple of years ago - during the so-called Internet Economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. - high technology seemed to be the answer; the cornerstone upon which future growth would be founded. One of the areas we explore with the current Business Climate Index survey is to what degree technology is - or is not - paying off." To participate, Bustin encourages leaders at businesses and other organizations to visit www.bustin.com/survey.html or call 214-720-3700 to request a fax copy. The survey is open through Sept. 20, with results to be published the following week. About Bustin & Co. Bustin & Co. (www.bustin.com) specializes in helping leaders of change-impacted companies become more successful. The firm's client experience includes work for large corporations such as AdvancePCS, Ericsson, Nextel, OGE OGE Office of Government Ethics OGE Oklahoma Gas and Electric OGE Out of Ground Effect OGE Operational Ground Equipment OGE Outdoor Gear Exchange OGE Österreichische Gesellschaft für Erdbebeningenieurwesen Und Baudynamik Energy Corp. and TXU TXU Texas Utilities (Electric and Gas Company) TXU Transmitter Unit and fast-growing mid-sized companies such as Phoenix I Restoration & Construction, WorkScripts and VCP VCP Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder (German Scouts) VCP VMware Certified Professional VCP Voluntary Cleanup Program VCP Virtual Control Panel VCP Video Cassette Player VCP Vietnamese Communist Party International. |
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