CHAPTER 1 Business Environment Contents • Introduction • Business • Objectives of business • Environmental influences on business • Environmental analysis • Characteristics of business environment • Components of business environment • The micro and macro environment • Competitive environment • Porter’s five forces model–competitive analysis Learning Objectives The present chapter aims at: • Definitions and objective of business • Examine environment analysis‚ characteristics
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MICRO ENVIRONMENT/ INDUSTRY ANALYSIS The environment which is close to business and affects its capacity to work is called micro or operational environment. Industry is a group of companies which offer same or similar product or services. These products and services are close substitutes of each other. It consists of: 1 Suppliers Supplier are the people who supply raw materials and required components to the companies. Increasing prices and reducing the quality of their products are potential
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The Fishing Kit from Fisher-Price: A Great Catch A beautiful sunny day‚ a little boy sitting on a dock in his yellow shirt and blue overalls‚ looking very pleased with the fish he has just caught. “It’s the reel thing.” Says the 1988 Fisher-Price ad for their Fishing Kit and this young boy proves that it really is. Catching fish on a summer day is made easy for children of all ages. The fishing kit is a must have for kids who enjoy the outdoors and have a love
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Five forces analysis help to analyze the characteristics that affect competition within an industry. The analysis is also a framework best suited to determine how strong or weak an industry’s competitive forces are but it can also help companies establish a business strategy. The five forces affecting industry attractiveness are classified into the two following categories. Internal forces: Competitive pressures from buyer bargaining power‚ competitive pressures stemming from supplier bargaining
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Introduction Business environment is an element that will affect all the activities of an organization. Besides‚ it will bring firms both opportunities and threats because of its uncertainties. Business environment is uncertain‚ complex & dynamics; organization should apply more flexibility & discontinuity ways to manage them. A firm cannot control the environment because it is unpredictable in its direction and speed of change‚ such as interest rates‚ rate of inflation and exchange rate. Business
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CHAPTER 1 THE COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENT INTRODUCTION The commercial environment is the “arena” in which purchasing and supply professionals and many others in business operate. This environment is essentially live and developing all the time and it includes many factors beyond the organisation’s day-to-day control. This ever-changing business environment puts all organisations under pressure to conform‚ adapt‚ innovate‚ or suffer the consequences of any inaction. Continuous appraisal of the
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external environment: Opportunities‚ threats‚ industry competition and competitor analysis Knowledge objectives 1 Explain the importance of analysing and understanding the firm’s external environment 2 Define and describe the general environment and the industry environment 3 Discuss the four activities of the external environmental analysis process 4 Name and describe the general environment’s six segments Knowledge objectives 5 Identify the five competitive forces and explain
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Women and the environment That the relationship between people and the environment is not gender-neutral became clear in the mid-1980s. Some organizations‚ focusing on the day-to-day lives of communities‚ argued that the position and concerns of women were invisible in environmental debates and programmers. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE based in New Delhi‚ India‚ in their The State of India’s Environment Report – or the Second Citizens Report of 1984-1985 argued that: Probably no other
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MARKETING ENVIRONMENT Introduction Marketing does not occur in a vacuum. The marketing environment consists of external forces that directly and/or indirectly impact the organization. Changes in the environment create opportunities and threats for the organizations. Definition: ▪ A company’s marketing environment consists of the actors and forces outside marketing that affect the marketing management’s ability to develop and maintain successful relationship with its target markets
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* Example: * Let’s take the Sky TV case as a typical example of penetration pricing. Sky TV is launched with a very low price‚ when many companies started using them‚ their prices continued to climb‚ however the product offered is good‚ so it continues to be used. This example also means that when Manac applies this method for their customized product‚ they need to concern more about after-sale service. * For instance‚ Manac is specializing in electrical goods‚ thus‚ the safety as well as
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