Understanding Trends and Fads

Definition and Etymology of Trends

• Trends originate from the old English word "Trendan," meaning to revolve or rotate.
• Trends represent a common course of interest that is happening, changing, or developing in a specific area, requiring a clear understanding.
• Fads are a form of collective interest that reflects popularity and familiarity among the general public in a certain culture, locale, or area.

Distinction Between Trends and Fads

• Trends are effective and efficient in implementation, relatively permanent, and greatly influential.
• Fads have efficiency virtuous only for a definite period or undertaking, are temporary, and have rapidly fading influence on individuals.

Trend Analysis

• Trend Analysis involves the general practice of gathering information on current issues.
• Trend analysis provides a forecast and foresight that greatly contributes to the well-being of the state.

Divisions of Trends in the 21st Century

• Social Trends stem from social and cultural standards being practiced and understand past, present, and future generations.
• Economic Trends offer mechanisms and models to accommodate the increase of unlimited needs and wants.
• Political Trends include events developing in the political phase of every nation.

Elements of Trends

• Trends must adapt the latest innovation and technology, aiming at the improvement of a product or process.
• They should be of common interest, appreciated, and accepted by numerous individuals, sharing the same concept, and beneficial to all.
• Trends should be socially and industrially relevant, both socially appropriate and industrially available.
• Trends must be realistic without discrimination or diversity to be generally applicable.

Characteristics of Trends

• Trends are learned as individuals acquire and adopt them based on the inviting and irresistible influences in society.
• They are collective, presupposing varieties that depend on an individual's capacity to adapt.
• Trends are based on influence.
• Trends are incorporated through the process of amalgamation, where the cycle of trends may relate to past, present, and future events.
• Trends are active and subject to stages of development.

Factors of Discontinuity of Trends

• A change of preference involves an alteration of an individual's taste or preference, also known as "Preference shifting of trends".
• Damaged trend sequences means trends do not mean infinity or eternity.
• Diminishing utilization which supports preference changes, where lack of satisfaction leads to trend discontinuity.
• Price drops as the cost of the trend is being sold for less than the initial selling price.

Understanding Local Networks

• Local Networks entail relationships and connections of individuals through communication linkages and the internal structure of an organization.
• Strategic Analysis includes standards used for success and development.
• Strategic Analysis is a medium to attain unified advancement.
• SWOT Analysis is a protocol and observance undertaken by administrators.
• SWOT Analysis thoroughly studies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats affecting an organization.
• SWOT Analysis is commonly used in strategic planning to maintain stability and sustainability.
  • Strengths are positive attributes that empower the organization in attaining development, or enabling it to stand despite challenges.
  • Weaknesses are factors affecting the quality or performance of an organization, such as financial distress.
  • Opportunities are possible occasions that lead to the organization's advancement.
  • Threats are misfortunes, problems and danger.
• Intuitive Thinking comes from the Latin word "intueri," meaning "to contemplate or anticipate."
  • Intuitive thinking senses rational discernment of ideas without needing evidence, which involves initial thinking and response to a scenario, based on instinct.
• Analytical Thinking conceptualizes every detail, scenario, data, and particulars before proceeding. -Analytical Thinking analyzes facts, comprehensive planning, and projects probable outcomes.
  • Intuitive thinking lacks presence of time to rationalize, disoriented solutions, abstract production, initial response, unfocused information, heart-centered thinking, and immediate response.
  • Analytical thinking is present to think, organized goals, concrete output, best option, focuses on the real issue, brain-centered, and conceptualize action.

Global Networks - Labor and Migration

• Global Networks are resources in a wide-range perspective of presentations that apply to all connections relating to the development of a country
• Global Networks instill good relationships between and among participating countries.
• The more good bonds and ties accumulated by a country, the more powerful and established they become, that will surely result in their advancement.
• Globalization is a phenomenological transformation of organizations that facilitates technological advancement in the social, political, economic, and cultural areas of society and adaptation and acceptance of modern knowledge.

Globalization Factors

• Factors include Economic, Political, Social and Cultutral

Components of Globalization

• Economic Growth and Improvement deals with economic growth and improvement.
  • It presupposes the different levels of economic stability.
• Labor and Employment brings not only local, but also international opportunities, to improve the nation.
  • It generates income and revenue that produces more capital.
• Migration produces positive and negative effects both in the domiciliary and receiving country.
  • Migration is a movement or transfer of potential individuals to a prospective state.
• Stability and Sustainability
  • Stability alone without sustainability will not be enough or sufficient to support the growing needs and wants of the general public.
• Capitalization and Industry gave rise to the numerous emergence of infrastructures and potential careers on small, medium, and large enterprises.
  • It creates opportunities for the commercial market.
• Innovation and Technology - one of the main ingredients of globalization.
  • It serves as concrete evidence or proof of the presence of novelty and modernization.

Unit 4: Planetary Networks - Climate Change

• Climate Change is an environmental phenomenon that occurs by gradual transformation and distribution of different weather conditions for a considerable length of time.
  • Climate Change is often misunderstood as global warming.

Climate Change VS. Global Warming

Climate change is change and development in Earth's climate and environment.

• Global warming is the warming of the temperature of the globe in its earth surfaces.
• Environment means there is are atmospheric condition, place, or location suitable for the inhabitant's environmental development, and is an area where humanity lives purposely and continuously.

Causes of Climate Change

• Burning of Fossil Fuels - fossil fuels are remains of plants and animals, by burning these it generates heat causing global warming.
• Deforestation - conversion of land use from forest to industrial land, factors that increased the probability of climate change.
• Increase in Population an increase in population growth is a big factor giving rise to the presence of global warming.
• Volcanic Eruption - eruption releases vast chemical gases; it is very dangerous to the health of the community, especially to the infants.

Effects of Climate Change

• Increased sea level due to melting of ice deposits.
• Presence of severe typhoons.
• Heavy rains / Heavy flood.
• Imbalance of weather conditions.
• Economic reverses and distress.
• Depletion of natural resources and reserves.
• El Niño / La Niña duration varieties.
• Wildfires and forest fires.
• Heat waves.
• Sickness/Diseases/Death.

How to Prevent Climate Change

• Self-Awareness and Involving Oneself - be well-educated and consciously aware of the emerging problem.
• Energy Conservation - most effective tool to prevent climate change.
• Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle - most basic and commonly used worldwide.

Proper Conversion and Preservation

• Use of energy-saving operations and procedures.
• Adoption of solar lights.
• Utilization of eco-friendly materials.
• Reduce, reuse, and recycle.
• Reforestation/planting of trees.
• Environmental awareness and initiative.
• Proper discipline and attitude.
• Uphold and observe the laws and regulations.

Composition of Gases on Climate Change

• Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is an essential compound needed by the Earth's sustenance.
  • Too much Carbon Dioxide (CO2) results in greenhouse gases. (burning fossil fuels, oils, coals, cutting down trees.)
• Methane (CH4) is natural gas and main component of fossil fuels and still a threat to emerging problems on global warming.
• Nitrous Oxide (N20) is a buoyant gas that manages adverse effects to earth surfaces resulting in climate change and a destructive force towards the ozone layer.
• Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCS) are biochemical gas that produces an antagonistic effect on the earth. (fluorine, hydrogen, carbon atoms)
• Perfluorocarbons (PCFS) are greenhouse gases which are transparent and unscented chemicals which bear a strong life sustenance.
• Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is an inorganic chemical that is widely used in the industry of electrical utility, consumed as an insulator, and is also being released from a volcanic eruption. Greenhouse effect - radiation coming from the sun is being trapped in the earth's surface, which are not the only natural causes but also man-made causes.