Metals and Natural Resources Industry

As with most other industries, IT is a necessary means of remaining competitive in the metals and natural resources industry. However, competition in this industry rises not only from US companies but from importers as well. They are also finding that instead of their traditional competitors, they are now seeing with a new wave if competition based on the commodity focus of E-Commerce.

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Surveys

Below is a chart on the insurance industry's statistics gathered by Information Week Magazine since 1995.   Click on the links to view Information Week's pdf* charts. 

	1999	1998	1997	1996	1995
Rank
Company
Application Development
E-Business
Customer Management
Business Processes/ ERP
Data Access
Revenue
Income (Loss)
Revenue Change
Income Change
Total Employees
Revenue per Employee
IT Employees
IT Budget
% Outsourcing
% Internet
Selling on Web
Procurement on the Web
% Reengineer
% Client Server

Source:  InformationWeek Online, InformationWeek 500 Industry Charts

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