Understanding the External Environment By Fergus McDermott‚ MMII‚ MBA - Examiner in Professional 2 Stage Strategy & Leadership If you knew everything about tomorrow‚ what would you do differently today? Faith Popcorn In this time of great uncertainty‚ many companies and their executives are wondering which changes will have the greatest impact on their businesses in the year/years ahead. What is certain is that the threats and opportunities facing any business‚ which fall out of change and
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What’s behind Qantas’ restructuring decision? 22 May 2012 Myriam Robin SHARE 3 Change is coming thick and fast at Qantas Airways. A mere day after announcing 500 job cuts‚ the airline is in the news again with an even bigger announcement. The company is splitting its domestic and international operations into two separate businesses from July 1. Each of the businesses will get their own CEO‚ and will report their financial results separately. “This change will enable a greater
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SOO CHUNG KIAN EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT: Industry Environment by using Porter’s Five Forces Figure 1: Porter’s five forces model Porter’s five forces analysis is a framework that is used for the industry analysis and business strategy development. This analysis determines the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. A change in any of the forces normally requires a company to re‐assess the marketplace. Rivalry The competition between operators and the rivalry are
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Introduction A business does not function in a vacuum. It has to act and react to what happens outside the factory and office walls. These factors that happen outside the business are known as external factors or influences. These will affect the main internal functions of the business and possibly the objectives of the business and its strategies. Main Factors The main factor that affects most business is the degree of competition how fiercely other businesses compete with the products that
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critical for organization to understand the importance of external environment‚ which includes remote‚ operating and industrial environments before developing its future objective. Each environment bases on different factors‚ therefore the analysis of external environment will help the company seeks for new opportunity in many areas as well as discovering challenges that might have direct impact to the organization in the future. The remote environment consists of the study of the economic trend such as
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QANTAS CASE STUDY The History of Qantas Qantas is Australia’s largest domestic and international airline. Although Qantas is primarily a passenger airline‚ air freight is also an integral part of its core business. Other Qantas operations include catering‚ tourism and E-commerce devoted to transport and travel. It was founded in the Queensland outback in 1920 as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service (QANTAS). The company began its operations with one aircraft providing joyrides
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Both internal and external environments should be designed to fit like pieces of a puzzle to successfully make up an organization’s system integrity. Falling short in one area can cause a domino effect and cause the organization to crash or fall apart. The four external environments are: economic factors‚ sociological factors‚ technological factors‚ and political/professional factors. The six internal environments are: organizational purpose mission and philosophy‚ organizational planning‚ organizational
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External Analysis and the Wine Industry* Analyzing the External environment is important in the strategic decision making for the organization in that these factors will affect the company’s choice of direction and its internal processes. There are two specific categories of the external environment factors that will be discussed‚ the remote environment and the industry environment. The remote environmental factors important to the success of the organization are the economic‚ political‚ technological
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The External Environment Remote Environment Ü Economic: Today¡¦s mutually dependent global economy is creating new opportunities for growth¡Xand the corresponding challenges of managing that growth responsibly. In both instances‚ GE¡¦s size is an advantage. GE is solving big needs for countries that need the broad range of infrastructure‚ financing and healthcare that economic growth demands. GE is also solving big needs on behalf of the challenges that face all of us¡Xincluding
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Introduction 3 2. External macro-environment 3 2.1 Social and cultural forces 3 2.1.1 Changing gender roles 3 2.1.2 Attitude towards health‚ nutrition and well-being 3 2.1.3 Cultural beliefs in a country 4 2.2 Technology 4 2.2.1 Advantages of technology 4 2.2.2 Disadvantages of technology 5 2.3 Demography 5 3. Conclusion 6 4. References Lists 7 1. Introduction This report is discussing about how three major forces of macro environment affecting an organisation’s
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