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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External and Internal Environmental Analysis “Environmental scanning is the internal communication of external information about issues that may potentially influence an organization ’s decision-making process” (Albright‚ 2004‚ p. 34). For organizations like Fresenius Medical Care‚ a worldwide company‚ the awareness of external environmental factors is vital to maintain competitive on the dialysis industry. Even though there are multiple external factors to analyze‚ in recent years the government
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Introduction to Marketing Environment Firms are affected by lots of different things; a firm’s marketing environment is made up of all of the things that affect the way it operates. Some of the factors in a firm’s marketing environment can be controlled by the firm but some are uncontrollable. Firms need to understand their marketing environment so that they can make the most of positive factors and manage the impact of negative factors. The market environment is a marketing term and refers to
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Robert Gray‚ Arthur Miller and Rachel Carson are writers that each explores the 20th century interaction and relationship between humans and their environment. From their texts ’The meatworks’‚ ’North Coast Town’‚ ’Death of a Salesman’ and ’Silent Spring’ we learn of conflict between man and his environment-which can be everything from man’s surrounding area‚ conditions and influences. And this conflict harms both man and nature causing degradation‚ exploitation and destruction for nature whilst
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1. What are the relevant customer segments; what is the size and what are characteristics of each of the segments and what are customer’s motivations and unmet needs within every segment? Deregulation‚ globalization‚ and introduction of new technologies such as the 4G networks and VoIP have forced the telecommunications companies to reconsider their strategy‚ their technological base and their product portfolio. In that context‚ companies have tried to develop and gain access to desired capabilities
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Introduction Business Environment included the actors and forces outside the organization that influence management’s stability to develop and maintain successful transactions with its target customers and stakeholders. The objective is to establish the importance of analyzing the types of environmental forces. The environmental forces are political-legal forces‚ economic forces‚ socio-cultural forces and technological forces. In other words‚ these forces (PEST) strongly affect the way of business
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The Marketing Environment The environment forces that affect the company’s ability to serve its customers 1. External Environment 2. Internal Environment External Environment Macro Environment: consist of larger societal forces that affect the entire microenvironment. The six forces making up the company’s microenvironment Demographic Economic Natural Technological Political Cultural Forces Demographic is the study of the characteristics of human populations.
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aims to assess a number of environmental conditions to ensure an acceptable indoor environment for all teaching accommodation. The College will be reviewed in relation to the built environment in respect of; thermal environment i.e. ventilation‚ without causing excessing air movement and humidity levels and condensation. It will also analyse factors affecting lighting including natural daylight‚ sound\noise from external sources to inside‚ internally to the outside and within the building‚ including
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Please use the Green Scantron Chapter 4 Perception‚ Attribution‚ and the Management of Diversity 1) When managers become aware of evidence of potential discrimination‚ they should do all of the following EXCEPT ________. A) pay immediate attention to the problem B) act proactively to address the potential problem C) review the organization’s policies and practices D) treat the potential discriminator unfairly 2) ________ is whatever the perceiver is trying to make sense of. A) The
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the macro environment‚ can be identified and examined. These There are a number of common approaches how the external factors‚ which are mentioned in the factors indirectly affect the organization but cannot be controlled by it. One approach could be the PEST analysis. PEST stands for political‚ economic‚ social and technological. Two more factors‚ the environmental and legal factor‚ are defined within the PESTEL analysis (or PESTLE analysis). The segmentation of the macro environment according
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