Competitiveness as the Main Feature of the Anticipatory Systems

Every enterprise determines the objectives of its activity and operates in such a way as to make the defined and pursued objectives created favourable conditions for the most profitable effects. An enterprise is characterized by large internal complexity. At the same time it is subjected to many factors of various nature. They influence its competitiveness understood as a quality which determines the enterprise's abilities to create constant development tendency, productivity increase (measured on the micro scale) and to develop markets while the competitors offer goods or/and services which are: newer, better and cheaper. Enterprises - participants of the market game, make present operational decisions of strategic range, which refer to the future. Therefore, there is a necessity to carry out muli-parameter and multi-factor analysis of the current condition of the enterprise, market situation and mutual relations occuring between real market competitors. This, in turn, leads to the necessity of effective forecasting. Competitiveness, the enterprise's quality, is connected with the environment in which it operates. If we assume that the enterprise formulates competitiveness increase as its strategic goal we can state that at the same time it determines methods of its accomplishment closely related to the goal. These methods are designed to help the enterprise in running business effectively in market economy - now and in the future.