Environmental scans play a crucial role in the strategic planning process by helping organizations take a look at their competitive advantages and identify ways to sustain the advantages. Wheelen and Hunger (2010) describes environmental scanning as “the monitoring, evaluation, and dissemination of information from external and internal environments to key people within the corporation” (p. 10). Metrics or measuring tools are implemented in order to measure or track the progress of a strategic plan. Internal and external factors help an organization in the decision -making process of its future state. Internal factors surround strengths and weaknesses and external factors identify the potential threats and opportunities outside of the organization’s span of control.…
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R.M. Ellis and A.J. Haywood, “The implications of eBay for ‘real networks’: The distribution of goods, money flows and the Internet infrastructure of e-commerce,” Chimera working paper number 2006-08, University of Essex…
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This environmental analysis will provide a complete external environmental scan designed to provide RoyalBlu Invites with the tools needed to identify the organizations strength and weaknesses. Furthermore, including an assessment of the company resources. This analysis will assess the organization competitive position and possibilities of growth. An explanation of how the external environment affects RoyalBlu Invites structure and organizational performance.…
In today’s constantly evolving business world, it is essential for organizations to fully master and incorporate strategic management theory into decision making processes. As the world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services, and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems (Hewlett Packard, 2010). “HP is well positioned to outperform the market. The strength of HP’s portfolio is leaner cost structure and accelerating market momentum that gives the confidence to raise the full year outlook (Hurd, 2010)”. One of the most important aspects of Hewlett Packard’s strategy building is an analysis of the external business environment that they operate in. As pointed out in the text Strategic Management. Concepts and Cases Competitiveness and Globalization, “The firm’s understanding of the external environment is matched with knowledge about its internal environment to form its vision, to develop its mission, and to identify and implement actions that result in strategic competitiveness and above-average returns.” (Hitt, Ireland, and Hoskisson, 2009) In this paper, there will be an analysis of Hewlett Packard’s external business environment and its impact on the firm’s strategic business continuity plan, including examination of the three components of the external environment, the general environment, the industry environment, and the competitor environment.…
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In this time of great uncertainty, many companies and their executives are wondering which changes will have the greatest impact on their businesses in the year/years ahead. What is certain is that the threats and opportunities facing any business, which fall out of change and uncertainty in the environment, can impact directly upon the profitability and even the very survival of those businesses. Some companies will have experienced such damage from the recession that they will be unable to recover as the economy revives. It is imperative to be alert to change, recognise it and deal fittingly and decisively with important issues identified. Perhaps never has this been more important! This paper considers the analysis and understanding of the external environment within the context of the strategic process. It is useful to consider the notion that the business environment conforms to an ecosystem, very similar to that of the natural world. Scientists better understand ecosystems in nature by looking at individual elements, how they move, and how each of the elements relates to one another. “As in nature, when one element of the ecosystem dynamically changes, the effect cascades right throughout the whole environment” 1. The same dynamics apply in the business world. Figure 1: The Strategic Process…
This report was to Joel Haire, who is the Master of Marketing convenor of Sales Management in Swinburne. The report is focus on sales strategy, implementation and operating plan for Foster’s Group Limited, which is one of the Australian largest alcohol companies. It was written by four Swinburne students, who are Master of Marketing, Diego, Desmond, Gemala, and Jie. The purpose of the report is to design a sales strategy for Forster’s Group on beer destination division in Australia so that improve Foster’s sale revenue and volume. In the report, we mainly focused on sales team of Foster, not too much about the marketing part.…
The survival of a corporation requires two elements: the strategic management of both its external and internal environments. The absence of either environment results in limited profitability. Whether a corporation is dealing with the growing concerns of technological changes or Internet privacy, external and internal factors will have a significant impact on day-to-day operations. Savvy corporations understand that focusing on creating and implementing a sound strategic plan produces above-average returns. Therefore, the demand to sustain a competitive advantage has caused corporations such as Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife) to focus on fully understanding its business environment. This paper will analyze two segments of the general environment and its effects on MetLife, identify two forces of competition, examine the external environment for opportunities and threats, and evaluate the internal environment for strengths and weaknesses that impact MetLife.…
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An environmental scanning process consists of an organization gathering information about the industry in which it operates, including information about the economy, government, laws and demographic factors such as population size, distribution and other factors. The organization should focus on its competitors. The company should examine the research for trends, opportunities and threats that might impact its business. An internal scan of the organization is needed to examine the organizations strengths and weaknesses. An organization should gather information from the community it conducts business and interview the leaders of the groups or use surveys. An external scan of the organization is the opportunities and threats that are outside the organization. When conducting an environmental scan, a variety of methods should be used to collect data, including publications, focus groups, leaders inside and outside the organization and the media. After the data is collected, the final step is to analyze the data and identify changes that can be made using a SWOT analysis, resource–based view, and the VRIO framework.…
Good Morning, I am (write your name here) from Tempus Global Data. I am calling to speak to Mr. Bob Wilson, major account executive of the weatherchannel.com?…
