* External and Internal Analysis and Competitive Advantage In this lecture‚ we focus * Company’s present strategy * Internal strength and weakness and external opportunity and threat * Five generic competitive strategy * Competitive advantage and strategy for Diversification * External and Internal Analysis and Competitive Advantage Considerations for Present Strategy: * Cost (low cost?) * Quality (superior quality?) * Customer based (broad or narrow segment) * Product-distribution
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External/Internal Factors While driving on a congested freeway during rush hour many people may have often wished that all the other cars would simply disappear so we arrive at our destination on time. Realizing that it is beyond their control‚ their thoughts may return to another solution and something that they can control – the departure time. All those other cars on the freeway are external factors affecting a commute to work. Their presence or behaviors are beyond an individual’s
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External and Internal Factors Affecting General Electric Management: Theory‚ Practice‚ and Application External and Internal Factors Affecting General Electric We will use General Electric‚ also known as GE‚ to illustrate how internal and external factors affect the four functions of management. We will explain how globalization‚ technology‚ innovation‚ diversity‚ and ethics affect the four functions. We will also explain how delegation can be used to manage the different factors. General
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a market as in this case has been the European market should have scanned the environment. By scanning the environment they should analyze the mega-environment as well as the task environment for possible opportunities and threats . Yet‚ a close attention could have been paid to their strength and weaknesses inside the company. Indeed‚ the consideration about any trends should have been incorporated in their environment analysis. In this case there has been a recognition of a trend‚ which is the
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difference between internal and external factors Internal factors that affect businesses come from within the business itself‚ without regard to any outside factors like customers and other businesses. External factors would be opposite. Internal factors: 1) Employee Turnover/Employee Satisfaction 2) Management of Resources 3) Research and Development External Factors: 1) Advertising 2) Quality of business reputation‚ or quality of products business produces 3) Competition by other
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decreases) 4. Preferences (obviously‚ if they prefer to buy it their D will increase) 5. Price of a substitute (if the price of a substitute good increases‚ D for the original good will increase) 6. Expectation of future prices and income. 7. Government policies. e.g. ban pornography. This leans more towards supply restriction rather than demand. 8. Substitutes (Greater the number of substitutes and the attractiveness of their price‚ the smaller will be the demand for the good) 9. Complement
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Internal and External Factors Paper XXXXXXXXXXXX MGT/230 xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx Internal and External Factors Paper The purpose of this paper is to explain how internal and external factors affect the four functions of management in the Wal-Mart Corporation. For any organization to survive‚ irrespective of its size‚ it must develop and implement its own management concept. Management is the process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals (Bateman & Snell
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performance and the behavior of people in an organization. In today’s world we interact with organizations that exist for accomplishing specific and well-defined goals through the behavior of their members. As we enter a technology based century‚ the environment in which organizations operate is increasingly turbulent‚ rocked by forces such as competition and customer demands. Economy and globalization forces have dramatically changed the make-up of today’s workforce‚ which is now the most educated and
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Internal Customers: This means if one department‚ individual or process within an organization supplies another such within the same organization with goods‚ information or services then the latter is described as the internal customer of the former. For example‚ a dispatch department may be the internal customer of a packing department‚ which in turn may be the internal customer of the manufacturing process. External Customers: External customers are those persons who come from the outside to
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Internal and External Factors 230 September 14‚ 2014 Internal and External Factors There are four management functions that are typically found in most of the business environments around the world. The four functions of management are planning‚ organizing‚ leading‚ and controlling. These are most commonly used in high level management to organizational management too. There are five major factors that affect these and many other business functions which are globalization‚ technology‚ innovation
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