HI,   
      
   Business environment is constantly changing. Some of its   
   characteristics :   
      
   Contingent	- Rarely, the decision and action results is identical to   
   other taken on an identical situation for the some agents and using   
   same resources. Cause-effect relations run away from the universe of   
   management and  belong to the probabilistic domains   
      
   Turbulent	- Business environment is typified by constant resource,   
   means and results changes. Change is a constant.   
      
   Unstable	- Pursuing a stable equilibrium, business activities shift   
   from an unstable equilibrium to another unstable equilibrium.   
      
   Dynamic	- It develops on the time axis, on transitory situations,   
   resources consumption and short life of the results, in the pursue of   
   new productive arrangements, new market shares, new clients, new   
   results.   
      
   Systemic	- Facing a large number of stakeholders interacting with   
   organization life, assuming inputs and transmitting outputs.   
      
   Open - Nowadays is difficult to accept that any economic unit produces   
   only for its own consumption, imposing the system openness   
      
   Varied - Evolved Resources are different in nature : physical, not   
   physical, financial, human, tangible, intangible, etc.   
      
   Complex	- Resulting from different productive and  management   
   arrangements between resources, activities and products, occurs a web   
   of relations, flows and performance, that presents itself as complex.   
      
   Entropic	- This complexity is always associated with a tendency to   
   disorganization, disequilibrium and disorder - entropy.   
      
   "Copernican" - The growing globalization reveals that nothing,   
   neither any business unit is the centre of anything. All organizations   
   constitute themselves  in a "Copernican" galaxy.   
      
   I would appreciatte any ideas about how can AI, through, BIS (Business   
   Intelligence Systems) contribute to business and how can it help / its   
   limitations to each of the above characteristics   
      
   TIA,   
      
   CC   
      
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