Environmental Scanning PaperMGT/498 Strategic ManagementEnvironmental Scanning Paper Introduction Business environments change over time and not being prepared for a changing environment could be damaging to any organization’s health. Environmental scanning provides leaders within an organization with insight on existing and potential changes that can have a direct effect on the organization’s progress. Environmental scanning is the collection
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Environmental scanning MGT/498 October 29‚ 2012 John Fritch Environmental scanning Coco-Cola and Pepsi are two major competitors in the beverage industry but each company is working on being different even though each company has similar products. Both companies are very popular and each company needs to develop and maintain a competitive edge that will help one or the other stay above the other. To gain a competitive edge‚ measurement guidelines need to be implemented to make sure that
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Environment scanning attempts to provide management with accurate forecasts of trends that relate to external changes in geographic areas where the firm is currently doing business or considering setting up operations. These changes relate to environmental factors that can affect the company and include the industry or market‚ technology‚ regulatory‚ economic‚ social‚ and political aspects. In this case‚ a Canadian manufacturing firm wants to do business in Poland and do the environment scanning. The
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Internal scanning involves looking inside the farm business and identifying strengths and weaknesses and assessing the businesses’ resources and management’s skills. It is part of the strategic planning process. An overview of Strategic Planning for a Farm Business and how internal scanning fits into the planning process is available. Internal business scanning is comprised of the following three categories: 1. Farm Business - What are the unique strengths and limitations of your business? 2.
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Chapter 4 Internal Scanning: Organizational Analysis Resource-Based Approach Internal strategic factors: Critical strengths and weaknesses that are likely to determine if the firm will be able to take advantage of opportunities while avoiding threats. Resource-Based Approach Resource: An asset‚ competency‚ process‚ skill‚ or knowledge controlled by the corporation. 1 Evaluating “Key Resources” VRIO Framework • Value: Does it provide competitive advantage? Rareness: Do other competitors
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SKIMMING AND SCANNING Readers use different strategies based on why they are reading. To be an efficient reader‚ students need to know when to use other reading method‚ such as scanning and skimming. * SCANNING involves moving your eyes quickly across a line or down a page to locate particular information or searching for what is needed. Guidelines for scanning a book or a magazine * Understand the organization of the material. * Stay focused on what you are looking for. * Use
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READING III Week 3 SKIMMING‚ SCANNING & READING FOR DETAILS As a student‚ you are assigned a lot of reading. Sometimes it is important to read slowly and carefully. Other times‚ you are just trying to find specific information. Skimming and scanning are skills that help you both of these types of reading. SKIMMING – Getting the gist Skimming is a fast reading to get the general idea of the text. Different techniques for skimming include: a. Running your eyes over the text to get the
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Skimming and Scanning Scanning means knowing what information you need to find before you read. You have something in your mind‚ your eyes‚ then‚ move quickly to find that particular information. You scan when you are looking for a fact or a detail or a particular vocabulary word. When you are scanning‚ you don’t have to read every word to answer the questions and don’t have understand every word Skimming means reading quickly for general meaning. You skim reading material to find out about
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REVIEW OF ARTICLE USING EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING AND FORECASTING TO IMPROVE STRATEGIS PLANNING BY Joel D. Lapin The Community College of Baltimore County Journal of Applied Research in the Community College‚ Vol.11‚ No.2‚ Spring 2004‚ pg 105-113 Joel D. Lapin is a professor of Sociology at The Community College of Baltimore County (Maryland)‚ Catonsville Campus‚ and Vice President and lead consultant in external environmental scanning and forecasting for The Clements Group which
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Environmental scanning is a strategy that the companies need to use in order to analyze new opportunities and changes. The information sources of environmental analysis data allow the companies to anticipate to events and plan for the future and anticipate changes. Comcast needs to understand the three main external environment components comprised of the remote ‚ industry and the operating environment. The remote environment is made of external factors where these factors have a lot of control over
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