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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Effects of the Industrial Revolution Working conditions What were the working conditions like during the Industrial Revolution? Well‚ for starters‚ the working class—who made up 80% of society—had little or no bargaining power with their new employers. Since population was increasing in Great Britain at the same time that landowners were enclosing common village lands‚ people from the countryside flocked to the towns and the new factories to get work. This resulted in a very high unemployment
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E-BUSINESS ORGANISATION: PETRONAS Value Chain: Support Activities Firm Infrastructure: -PETRONAS is the national oil and gas company of Malaysia and is wholly-owned by the Government of Malaysia. Together with its subsidiaries and associated companies‚ PETRONAS‚ a fortune global 500’s largest corporation in the world. -Fortune ranks PETRONAS as the 75th largest company in the world and the most profitable in Asia. HR Management: -PETRONAS provide industrial training programme for undergraduates
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TDA 3.2 Schools as Organisations. TDA 3.2-1.1 Summarise entitlement and provision for early year’s education. Thanks to the Every Child Matters and the Childcare Act 2006 all 3 and 4 years olds in England receive free part-time (12 ½ per week) for 38 weeks a year. This is government funded and the idea is for all children to have 2 years of free education before they even start school. Early year’s provision for these very young children varies greatly from the education they will
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Samantha Becicka Macro Study Guide Chapter 3 1 We have scarce resources so in our choices of consumption we wish to maximize the satisfaction we receive from those choices. The economist terms this maximizing the __utility_________ 2 Since it is unlikely that we can grow our own food‚ sew our own clothes or build our house‚ it would be better if we would __specialize___ in what we do best and __exchange_ for those needs that others do better 3 The term _product market___ is a place where and
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amongst other reasons has resulted in promoting 70% of its managers from within the organisation. In fact‚ their recently retired Managing Director started out as a driver! For this Marketing Management and Strategy assignment‚ we will focus on TNT Express in the Geographical region of the United Kingdom and make studies into TNT Express UK’s Macro and Micro Analysis‚ thus resulting in a SWOT Framework Analysis. Macro Analysis Political Although UK did not adopt the Euro‚ UK is one of the earlier
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1. What is the difference between micro and macro economics? Give an example of a microeconomic phenomenon and an example of a macroeconomic one. Microeconomics is the study of how an individual‚ group or a company makes their decisions while macroeconomics is the study of how decisions are made on a whole‚ which involves growth‚ inflation‚ use of country resources and unemployment; focusing on broad issues. Microeconomics and macroeconomics goes hand in hand‚ they compliment each other. The decisions
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marketing environment deeply affects the organization’.Discuss this statement‚explaining what is meant by the’marketing environment’ and explaining how it might affect marketing plans and activities with an example. The Marketing Environment The marketing environment refers to all of the internal and external forces that affect a marketer’s ability to create‚ communicate‚ deliver and exchange offerings of value. The factors and forces within the marketing environment can be
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A study of the organization’s objectives helps to understand how it is likely to respond to changes in its environment. It is often assumed that business organizations will always try to maximize their profits through a combination of maximizing revenue and minimizing costs. The profit maximization objectives must be qualified by a time dimension. A firm that pursuing a short-term profit-maximizing objective may act very differently to one that seeks to maximize long term profit. This may be reflected
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1. Sole trader businesses are the easiest to set up because there is no complex paperwork. The business and the owner are the same person in law. The sole trader does not have limited liability which means that they are responsible for all the debts of the business. The sole trader has to produce an annual accounting return for the Inland Revenue. 2. Partnerships are set up by a Deed of Partnership which is a document made out by the partners and witnessed by a solicitor. This Deed sets out the
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