Can Information Technology Help Managers Plan Globally?(Industry Trend or Event)

Existing literature leaves no doubt about the increasing social, technological, political, cultural and economic imperative to globalise business. Global business combines the complexity of local business with increasing risk and faster-change pace and complexity of managing in more than one country. How is information technology helping global managers to plan ? One hundred questionnaires were distributed to multinational companies in the United Kingdom (UK) and in South Africa (SA) to collect information to examine this question. A preliminary report presented by this paper indi