Understanding the External Environment By Fergus McDermott‚ MMII‚ MBA - Examiner in Professional 2 Stage Strategy & Leadership If you knew everything about tomorrow‚ what would you do differently today? Faith Popcorn 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
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External Analysis of the telecommunication industry Economic • Market analysis by Insight Research predicts that telecommunications-industry revenue will reach $1.2 trillion by the end of next year‚ and grow by a compounded rate of 5.9 percent to $1.6 trillion by 2010. • Telecommunication remains an important part of the world economy and the telecommunication industry’s revenue has been placed at just under 3% of the gross world product. • Mobile phones have had a significant
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with different threats and opportunities. As the company continues to grow‚ it is important for Costco to understand the external threats and opportunities that will impact the company in either a positive or negative way. In order understand these forces a SLEPT analysis is used to analyze the social‚ legal‚ economical‚ political and technological impacts on Costco. SLEPT Analysis Social Recently‚ manufactures have been under attack for exploiting overseas workers for cheap labor. Companies like Apple
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SOO CHUNG KIAN EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT: Industry Environment by using Porter’s Five Forces Figure 1: Porter’s five forces model Porter’s five forces analysis is a framework that is used for the industry analysis and business strategy development. This analysis determines the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. A change in any of the forces normally requires a company to re‐assess the marketplace. Rivalry The competition between operators and the rivalry are
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External Analysis and the Wine Industry* Analyzing the External environment is important in the strategic decision making for the organization in that these factors will affect the company’s choice of direction and its internal processes. There are two specific categories of the external environment factors that will be discussed‚ the remote environment and the industry environment. The remote environmental factors important to the success of the organization are the economic‚ political‚ technological
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Slavery in the Chocolate Industry Introduction The forced labour of children in the Ivorian cocoa farms is at a distance from the glamourised candy producers such as Mars and Nestlé‚ and a universe away from the day-to-day consumers of chocolate. That such a quixotic market shares a commonality with the more exposed diamond market‚ for example‚ whose implication in the sale and involvement of guns in tribal cleansing has long been documented‚ drives home the reminder that our modern prosperity
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jcc18schrage.qx 4/7/05 5:43 pm Page 99 The Cocoa Industry and Child Labour* Elliot J. Schrage Council on Foreign Relations‚ USA Anthony P. Ewing Columbia University‚ USA Reports of forced child labour on the cocoa farms of Côte d’Ivoire surfaced in 2000 and quickly became an important business issue for a number of prominent companies. Media coverage and the threat of regulatory action mobilised the international cocoa industry to collaborate with other stakeholders to eliminate the
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Chocolate and Child Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of the Cocoa Industry International Labor Rights Fund June 30‚ 2004 It is estimated that America spends $13 billion a year on chocolate. However‚ in the past few years‚ it has become increasingly clear that this favorite American product is tainted with the labor of innocent young children. The fact that child slaves are used in the harvesting of cocoa beans in Cote D’Ivoire‚ the world’s major supplier of cocoa‚ is undisputed. The US State
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discussing uncertain and dynamic external environments and if they require more effective application of analytical tools and framework and to what extent they do. The external environment refers to the range of factors that influence the operation and performance of an organisation that happens out-with the organisation which they have limited control over and by applying analytical tools and framework they try to prepare themselves best for what may come. As the environment is constantly uncertain and
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critical for organization to understand the importance of external environment‚ which includes remote‚ operating and industrial environments before developing its future objective. Each environment bases on different factors‚ therefore the analysis of external environment will help the company seeks for new opportunity in many areas as well as discovering challenges that might have direct impact to the organization in the future. The remote environment consists of the study of the economic trend such as
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