Domain and The External Environment An organisation’s domain is its chosen environmental field of action. It is the territory that the organisation stakes out for itself with regard to products‚ services and markets served. This is also strongly affected by the organisation’s external environment. The external environment incorporates all the elements that exist outside the boundary of the organisation and have the potential to affect all or part of the organisation. Task Environment: The task environment
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Choose an international business that interests you. Identify challenges in its business environment that are of current strategic importance. How‚ in your opinion‚ should the international business you have chosen respond to those challenges? An international business‚ often referred to as an MNE (Multinational Enterprise) is one which has a wide-reaching approach and will operate in more than one country. Recognisable international businesses include the likes of McDonald’s‚ Apple and BP. Although
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Marketing Mix OUTLINE o INTRODUCTION o UNILEVER AT A GLANCE o STP STRATEGY Segmentation Targeting Positioning • 4 Ps o CONCLUSION UNILEVER AT A GLANCE Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast-moving consumer goods. UNILEVER was founded in 1930 190 countries in which their products are sold 171‚000 employees at the end of the year 2011 €1 billion invested in R&D worldwide in 2011 CUSTOMER PARTNERSHIPS o Unilever has products for three markets: • FOOD • PERSONAL CARE
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Decade of Organizational Change at Unilever What did Unilever’s decentralized organizational structure make sense from the 1950s through the 1970s? Why did this structure start to create problems for the company in the 1980s. Discussion Question # 1 What was Unilever trying to do when it introduced a new structure based on business groups in the mid-1990s? Why do you think that this structure failed to cure Unilever’s ills? Discussion Question #2 In the 2000s Unilever has switched to a structure based
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UNILEVER Portfolio Management Sohail Aslam Esmeralda García Christoph J. Szczecina Henrique A. Lima de Faria Fachhochschule Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts June 19th‚ 2008 PERSPECTIVES 1. UNILEVER Company - Overview - Legal structure - Group distribution 2. Executive Management - Vision - Mission - Strategic Objectives - Strategic Plan 3. Portfolio Management - Identification - Categorization - Evaluation - Selection - Prioritization - Portfolio Balancing - Authorization
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FedEx’s External and Internal Environments FedEx’s external environment both positively and negatively affects the organizations operations. Their external environment consists of government‚ weather‚ and the economy. FedEx does not have a very large external environment because their operations are not affect by many outside sources. The government affects FedEx’s operations by providing security regulations. A regulation that affects them is increased security regulations that were just recently
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Standard Chartered is the world’s leading emerging markets bank headquartered in London. Standard Chartered employs 30‚000 people in over 500 locations in more than 50 countries in the Asia Pacific Region‚ South Asia‚ the Middle East‚ Africa‚ the United Kingdom and the Americas. It is one of the world’s most international banks‚ with a management team comprising 70 nationalities. Standard Chartered has been committed to Hong Kong and China for nearly 150 years. Standard Chartered Bank opened its
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The External Environment The external organizational environment includes all elements existing outside the boundary of the organization that have the potential to affect the organization. This environment includes competitors‚ resources‚ technology‚ and economic conditions that influence the organization. The organization external environments are having 2 layers: • General environment: The outer layer that is widely dispersed and affects organization indirectly. It includes
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The following SWOT analysis illustrates Electrolux’s internal and external environment to address the company’s current situation‚ for further adaptable use‚ e.g. strategic capability affecting the business’ strategy planning. 1.1 Strengths • Electrolux’s undeniable quality concentrates on sustainability issues‚ for instance‚ the green range products; subsequently‚ the company increases its reliable corporate picture by its thoughtfulness regarding sustainability issues‚ as it may help with other
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External Environment When most people think of Human Resource Planning‚ the first thing that usually comes to mind is the internal environment of the organization. There is‚ however; the external environment which is just as important. The external environment consists of governmental policies‚ condition of the economy‚ demographics‚ technology‚ international influences‚ competitors‚ and a changing labor force (Greer‚ Peters & Youngblood‚ 1998). Neglecting the external environment can have devastating
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