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Industry Research

Guide for directing users to key, accepted business resources at Billington Library for researching industries in terms of trends, competition, challenges, opportunities, or performance.

Buzz Words

A challenge to formulating a focused, searchable topic is also that of vocabulary and finding helpful words to convey what you wish to find in business literature writings.  Here are some keyword suggestions which might be paired with finding industry information and to get you thinking.

  • market share
  • size
  • growth
  • trends
  • innovations
  • forecast
  • analysis
  • development (s, ing)
  • outlook
  • emerging
  • productivity or production
  • demand
  • market(s)
  • decline
  • SWOT [any words, Strenghts, Weakness, Opportunity,Threat)
  • regulation (or regulatory)
  • competition
  • peer(s)
  • employment

 

More ideas ???  Do some reading of the literature, have a martini, and your creative thinking for new ideas will emerge.