2 2.1 The General Environment The General Environment 2.2 Scanning‚ Monitoring‚ and Forecasting Changes in the Environment Key Work Strategic decision making under conditions of uncertainty 2.3 Scenario Planning Key Work Strategic inflection points and their impact on strategy Tools and Techniques Undertaking scenario planning 2.4 PEST Analysis 2.5 SWOT Analysis 2.6 The General and the Competitive Environments Tools and Techniques Writing a PEST
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The Marketing Environment Environmental Variables There are two categories of variables in the marketing environment that shall shape all aspects of a company’s strategic plans: 1. Macro environmental category includes: demographic; economic; social-cultural; competitive; political-legal; and technology variables. 2. Microenvironmental category includes: the company itself; customer served by the company; suppliers; distributors; market intermediaries that assist in making and marketing
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The Holding Environment By David Wasdell A critical analysis of D.W. Winnicott’s papers in ‘The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment’‚ with particular attention to Winnicott’s thesis that anxiety originates in the breakdown of the post-natal holding environment. Produced By: Meridian Programme‚ Meridian House‚ 115 Poplar High Street‚ London E14 0AE‚ Hosted By: Unit for Research into Changing Institutions (URCHIN)‚ charity reg. no. 284542 Web-site: www.meridian
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The External Environment: Opportunities‚ Threats‚ Competition‚ and Competitor Analysis The external environment affects a firm’s strategic actions. For the example‚ when Philip Morris International (PMI) joint venture with Swedish Match AB‚ PMI distribute smokeless tobacco in multiple global market. A firm’s external environment creates the opportunities (opportunities PMI to enter the smokeless tobacco market) and threats (the regulation in its market reduces the consumption of PMI’s tobacco
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different purpose: to write essays on the environment to win P100‚000 pesos and P50‚000 for their schools. Last March‚ 50 junior and senior high school students participated in the first ever Thunderbird Resorts Efforts on Environment Sustainability (TREES) on-the-spot essay writing contest. The contest was held simultaneously in Thunderbird Resorts in Binangonan‚ Rizal‚ and in Poro Point‚ La Union. After listening to lectures given by environment experts from Haribon Foundation‚ Earth Day
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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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The marketing environment of a firm consists of 2 different parts‚ the micro-environment‚ and the macro-environment. The micro environment of a firm is all the actors within a firm which affects its ability to sell final products to its customers. The macro environment‚ are all actor which are potentially harmful‚ and pose a threat towards the firm. The micro environment is affect by 6 actors‚ which are the firm‚ suppliers‚ market intermediaries‚ customers‚ competitors‚ and the public. Within
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Human lifestyle are responsible of many effects on environment: global warming‚ climate change‚ depletion of Ozone layer‚ deforestation‚ pollution‚ extinction of species… With depleting resources of nature‚ certain ways to save the environment have to be formulated. But who can do something to save the planet: people or governments? This essay will discuss this issue. Firstly‚ during years‚ people doesn’t pay attention to the environment in spite of scientists warning of a global warming
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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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Chapter 4 The External Environment The Environmental Domain Organization Environment is composed of all elements that exist outside the boundary of the organization that have the potential to affect all or part of the organization. Its domain is the chosen field of action. The environment comprises several sectors or subdivisions of the environment that contain similar elements (ie. industry‚ raw materials‚ human resources‚ market‚ technology‚ financial resources‚ economic conditions‚ government
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