The document discusses the internal and external business environments that can positively or negatively impact an organization's performance. It defines the general external environment as including economic, socio-cultural, politico-legal, demographic, technological, and world/ecological factors. The specific external environment includes stakeholders, customers, pressure groups, investors, and employees. The internal environment encompasses an organization's resources, R&D, production, procurement, and products/services. It also describes environmental scanning, organizational culture, economic development phases, types of business organizations, and competitive forces that influence industry competition.
The document discusses the internal and external business environments that can positively or negatively impact an organization's performance. It defines the general external environment as including economic, socio-cultural, politico-legal, demographic, technological, and world/ecological factors. The specific external environment includes stakeholders, customers, pressure groups, investors, and employees. The internal environment encompasses an organization's resources, R&D, production, procurement, and products/services. It also describes environmental scanning and its components.
This document provides an overview of business environment and its key components. It discusses that the business of business is business, and defines business as an entity engaged in activities to earn a profit by supplying goods or services. It then explains that the objectives of business include economic goals like profit earning and social goals like employment creation. The characteristics of business environment are described as complex, dynamic and multi-faceted. The types of environment are outlined as the internal controllable environment and external uncontrollable micro and macro environments. The macro environment comprises the economic factors like economic policies and indices, and non-economic factors like socio-cultural, technological, political, international and natural environments.
This document provides an overview of how organizations interact with their external environment. It discusses the macroenvironment, competitive environment, and organizational culture. The macroenvironment includes broad forces like laws, economy, technology that can influence strategy. The competitive environment consists of competitors, new entrants, substitutes, and suppliers. Organizational culture is defined as shared assumptions and values that guide employee behavior. The document suggests managers should analyze environments, develop scenarios, and take proactive steps to influence environments and align culture with strategic goals.
The document discusses the marketing environment, which includes forces outside of a company's direct control that influence its business capabilities. It describes the internal environment within a company and the external macro and micro environments. The macro environment encompasses broad societal forces, while the micro environment consists of suppliers, customers, competitors, and public groups in the immediate industry. Understanding how these environments shape opportunities and threats is essential for effective marketing planning and competition.
The document provides an overview of business environment analysis. It defines key terms like business, objectives of business, and importance of understanding the business environment. It discusses the micro and macro environment. The micro environment includes factors directly related to the firm like customers, competitors, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, and publics. The macro environment encompasses broader societal and economic forces like demographic, economic, political, technological, natural, and global factors. Understanding how these internal and external factors influence the business is important for strategic decision making and response.
This document provides an overview of the contents to be covered in the GBBA 301A and GBBA 301B courses on fundamentals of business environment. The GBBA 301A course will cover topics such as components of culture, economic systems and policies in India, political systems, legal environment, and financial environment. The GBBA 301B course will involve students conducting environment scans of companies, analyzing socio-cultural differences across countries, studying economic environments, comparing political systems, and examining foreign exchange rates. Both courses aim to help students understand the business environment concept.
Business Environment: Concept, Nature and Significance,
Environment Scanning: Meaning, Nature and scope, Process of Environment Scanning, Interaction between Internal and External Environment
This document provides an overview of business studies and the various business environments. It discusses the micro, market, and macro environments that businesses must navigate. Specifically, it covers three key points:
1) The micro environment refers to internal aspects a business can control, like vision, culture, and resources. The market environment consists of external factors like customers, suppliers, and competitors.
2) Business sectors are divided into primary (natural resources), secondary (manufacturing), and tertiary (services). There are also formal and informal economic sectors.
3) Understanding the interrelationship between micro, market, and macro environments is important for strategic planning and SWOT analysis. Ongoing environmental scanning allows businesses to identify
This document provides an overview of business environment fundamentals. It defines business, characteristics of business, and how factors like globalization, competition, and technology are changing business. It then defines internal and external environment. The internal environment includes factors like value systems, management structure, and human resources that a business can control. The external environment includes macro factors like the economy, society, and regulations, as well as micro factors like suppliers, customers, competitors, and public groups that influence business. It explores how the internal and external environments impact business decision making and performance.
This document discusses views of management and how managers are influenced by external factors. It begins by describing the omnipotent view, where managers have unlimited control over the organization, and the symbolic view, where many external factors limit managers' control. The reality is a synthesis where managers influence performance but must adapt to the environment. It also describes the general environment that includes economic, political, technological, and social factors influencing all organizations. The specific environment directly affecting organizations includes competitors, customers, suppliers, and regulatory groups. Managing the environment requires monitoring these external influences and adapting organizational strategies accordingly.
The document provides an overview of business environment fundamentals and business organizations. It defines business environment as the external forces, factors, and institutions that influence a company's operations and ability to achieve its objectives. The business environment consists of internal and external components. The internal environment includes management structure, employee skills, and company culture. The external environment includes political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors that are outside a company's control. Understanding how these internal and external factors interact is important for business strategy and decision making.
Chapter 2 The Firm and Its Environment lesson 1GLADS123
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This document provides an overview of key concepts relating to a firm's environment and environmental scanning. It defines the external and internal business environments and lists their major components. The external environment includes economic, sociocultural, political-legal, demographic, technological, and ecological factors. The internal environment comprises a firm's resources. The chapter will cover identifying environmental forces, local and international business contexts, economic development phases, and business organization forms. Environmental scanning techniques like SWOT analysis and benchmarking are also introduced.
This document provides an overview of business environment and analysis. It defines key terms like business, objectives of business, and importance of understanding the business environment. It describes the various internal and external influences on a business and frameworks for analyzing opportunities and threats. It also outlines the different components of the business environment, including the micro and macro environment, and relationship between organizations and their external environment.
The document discusses the business environment and its analysis. It defines the business environment as consisting of internal and external factors that influence a business. The internal environment includes factors within a firm's control like resources and employees. The external environment includes broader forces like the economic, technological, political and social climate that are beyond a firm's control. Environmental analysis is important for businesses to identify opportunities and threats, direct growth, and meet competition. It also discusses Porter's five forces model for competitive analysis.
This document provides an overview of business environment concepts. It defines business environment as consisting of internal and external factors that influence a company. The internal environment includes factors within a company's control like management and resources. The external environment includes macro factors like economic conditions and demographic trends, as well as micro factors like customers, competitors and suppliers that are outside a company's control. Understanding the business environment is important for identifying opportunities and threats to help companies adapt and make strategic decisions. Regular environmental scanning is also discussed as a way for companies to monitor changes in the external environment.
The document discusses the internal and external environment of an organization. The internal environment includes factors such as values, mission/objectives, management structure, human resources, and financial factors that can influence business decisions. The external environment includes the micro environment of suppliers, competitors, customers, and publics, as well as the macro environment of demographic, economic, natural, technological, political, and socio-cultural forces. Environmental scanning monitors both the internal and external environments to identify opportunities, threats, strengths, and weaknesses and avoid strategic surprises.
Marketing environment, classification of marketing environment- macro and micro environment, components of marketing environment, marketing intermediaries, competitors, public, factors of macro environment, social and cultural factors.
The document provides an overview of business environment analysis. It defines key terms like business, objectives of business, and importance of environmental analysis. It describes the internal and external components of the business environment, including the microenvironment factors like customers, competitors, and suppliers, as well as the macroenvironment factors in PEST analysis. It also discusses techniques for environmental scanning and the relationship between organizations and their surrounding environment. In summary, the document outlines the factors that influence businesses and the importance of monitoring the internal and external environment for opportunities and threats.
The document discusses business environmental analysis and its importance for strategic decision making. It defines business environment and explains that businesses operate in a unique environment and cannot function in isolation. The business environment includes internal factors that are controllable by the business as well as external factors from the macro and micro environment that are beyond the business's control. Conducting an analysis of the business environment is important for identifying opportunities and threats to help guide the business's growth strategy.
Stakeholders are any individuals or groups that are impacted by or can influence an organization's actions and decisions. The document defines and discusses internal stakeholders like employees, managers, and directors who are directly involved in the business. It also examines connected stakeholders such as customers, suppliers, and shareholders who are related to the core functions of the business. Finally, it outlines external stakeholders like the government, local community, pressure groups, and media who are not directly involved but have interest in the business. Stakeholders provide feedback, influence product development, build long-term relationships, and help companies achieve their objectives.
This document provides an overview of business fundamentals and the business environment. It discusses the key characteristics of business including the exchange of goods/services and profit motive. It also examines the changing nature of business due to factors like globalization and technology. The document defines business environment and explains that it consists of internal factors controlled by the business and external factors outside its control. It provides examples of internal factors such as organizational structure and culture. The external environment is categorized into micro environment including customers, competitors and public, and macro environment. The relationship between business and its environment is described as mutually dependent and uncertain.
Computer Network Unit IV - Lecture Notes - Network LayerMurugan146644
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Title:
Lecture Notes - Unit IV - The Network Layer
Description:
Welcome to the comprehensive guide on Computer Network concepts, tailored for final year B.Sc. Computer Science students affiliated with Alagappa University. This document covers fundamental principles and advanced topics in Computer Network. PDF content is prepared from the text book Computer Network by Andrew S. Tenanbaum
Key Topics Covered:
Main Topic : The Network Layer
Sub-Topic : Network Layer Design Issues (Store and forward packet switching , service provided to the transport layer, implementation of connection less service, implementation of connection oriented service, Comparision of virtual circuit and datagram subnet), Routing algorithms (Shortest path routing, Flooding , Distance Vector routing algorithm, Link state routing algorithm , hierarchical routing algorithm, broadcast routing, multicast routing algorithm)
Other Link :
1.Introduction to computer network - /slideshow/lecture-notes-introduction-to-computer-network/274183454
2. Physical Layer - /slideshow/lecture-notes-unit-ii-the-physical-layer/274747125
3. Data Link Layer Part 1 : /slideshow/lecture-notes-unit-iii-the-datalink-layer/275288798
Target Audience:
Final year B.Sc. Computer Science students at Alagappa University seeking a solid foundation in Computer Network principles for academic.
About the Author:
Dr. S. Murugan is Associate Professor at Alagappa Government Arts College, Karaikudi. With 23 years of teaching experience in the field of Computer Science, Dr. S. Murugan has a passion for simplifying complex concepts in Computer Network
Disclaimer:
This document is intended for educational purposes only. The content presented here reflects the authors understanding in the field of Computer Network
The document provides an overview of business environment analysis. It defines key terms like business, objectives of business, and importance of understanding the business environment. It discusses the micro and macro environment. The micro environment includes factors directly related to the firm like customers, competitors, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, and publics. The macro environment encompasses broader societal and economic forces like demographic, economic, political, technological, natural, and global factors. Understanding how these internal and external factors influence the business is important for strategic decision making and response.
This document provides an overview of the contents to be covered in the GBBA 301A and GBBA 301B courses on fundamentals of business environment. The GBBA 301A course will cover topics such as components of culture, economic systems and policies in India, political systems, legal environment, and financial environment. The GBBA 301B course will involve students conducting environment scans of companies, analyzing socio-cultural differences across countries, studying economic environments, comparing political systems, and examining foreign exchange rates. Both courses aim to help students understand the business environment concept.
Business Environment: Concept, Nature and Significance,
Environment Scanning: Meaning, Nature and scope, Process of Environment Scanning, Interaction between Internal and External Environment
This document provides an overview of business studies and the various business environments. It discusses the micro, market, and macro environments that businesses must navigate. Specifically, it covers three key points:
1) The micro environment refers to internal aspects a business can control, like vision, culture, and resources. The market environment consists of external factors like customers, suppliers, and competitors.
2) Business sectors are divided into primary (natural resources), secondary (manufacturing), and tertiary (services). There are also formal and informal economic sectors.
3) Understanding the interrelationship between micro, market, and macro environments is important for strategic planning and SWOT analysis. Ongoing environmental scanning allows businesses to identify
This document provides an overview of business environment fundamentals. It defines business, characteristics of business, and how factors like globalization, competition, and technology are changing business. It then defines internal and external environment. The internal environment includes factors like value systems, management structure, and human resources that a business can control. The external environment includes macro factors like the economy, society, and regulations, as well as micro factors like suppliers, customers, competitors, and public groups that influence business. It explores how the internal and external environments impact business decision making and performance.
This document discusses views of management and how managers are influenced by external factors. It begins by describing the omnipotent view, where managers have unlimited control over the organization, and the symbolic view, where many external factors limit managers' control. The reality is a synthesis where managers influence performance but must adapt to the environment. It also describes the general environment that includes economic, political, technological, and social factors influencing all organizations. The specific environment directly affecting organizations includes competitors, customers, suppliers, and regulatory groups. Managing the environment requires monitoring these external influences and adapting organizational strategies accordingly.
The document provides an overview of business environment fundamentals and business organizations. It defines business environment as the external forces, factors, and institutions that influence a company's operations and ability to achieve its objectives. The business environment consists of internal and external components. The internal environment includes management structure, employee skills, and company culture. The external environment includes political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors that are outside a company's control. Understanding how these internal and external factors interact is important for business strategy and decision making.
Chapter 2 The Firm and Its Environment lesson 1GLADS123
油
This document provides an overview of key concepts relating to a firm's environment and environmental scanning. It defines the external and internal business environments and lists their major components. The external environment includes economic, sociocultural, political-legal, demographic, technological, and ecological factors. The internal environment comprises a firm's resources. The chapter will cover identifying environmental forces, local and international business contexts, economic development phases, and business organization forms. Environmental scanning techniques like SWOT analysis and benchmarking are also introduced.
This document provides an overview of business environment and analysis. It defines key terms like business, objectives of business, and importance of understanding the business environment. It describes the various internal and external influences on a business and frameworks for analyzing opportunities and threats. It also outlines the different components of the business environment, including the micro and macro environment, and relationship between organizations and their external environment.
The document discusses the business environment and its analysis. It defines the business environment as consisting of internal and external factors that influence a business. The internal environment includes factors within a firm's control like resources and employees. The external environment includes broader forces like the economic, technological, political and social climate that are beyond a firm's control. Environmental analysis is important for businesses to identify opportunities and threats, direct growth, and meet competition. It also discusses Porter's five forces model for competitive analysis.
This document provides an overview of business environment concepts. It defines business environment as consisting of internal and external factors that influence a company. The internal environment includes factors within a company's control like management and resources. The external environment includes macro factors like economic conditions and demographic trends, as well as micro factors like customers, competitors and suppliers that are outside a company's control. Understanding the business environment is important for identifying opportunities and threats to help companies adapt and make strategic decisions. Regular environmental scanning is also discussed as a way for companies to monitor changes in the external environment.
The document discusses the internal and external environment of an organization. The internal environment includes factors such as values, mission/objectives, management structure, human resources, and financial factors that can influence business decisions. The external environment includes the micro environment of suppliers, competitors, customers, and publics, as well as the macro environment of demographic, economic, natural, technological, political, and socio-cultural forces. Environmental scanning monitors both the internal and external environments to identify opportunities, threats, strengths, and weaknesses and avoid strategic surprises.
Marketing environment, classification of marketing environment- macro and micro environment, components of marketing environment, marketing intermediaries, competitors, public, factors of macro environment, social and cultural factors.
The document provides an overview of business environment analysis. It defines key terms like business, objectives of business, and importance of environmental analysis. It describes the internal and external components of the business environment, including the microenvironment factors like customers, competitors, and suppliers, as well as the macroenvironment factors in PEST analysis. It also discusses techniques for environmental scanning and the relationship between organizations and their surrounding environment. In summary, the document outlines the factors that influence businesses and the importance of monitoring the internal and external environment for opportunities and threats.
The document discusses business environmental analysis and its importance for strategic decision making. It defines business environment and explains that businesses operate in a unique environment and cannot function in isolation. The business environment includes internal factors that are controllable by the business as well as external factors from the macro and micro environment that are beyond the business's control. Conducting an analysis of the business environment is important for identifying opportunities and threats to help guide the business's growth strategy.
Stakeholders are any individuals or groups that are impacted by or can influence an organization's actions and decisions. The document defines and discusses internal stakeholders like employees, managers, and directors who are directly involved in the business. It also examines connected stakeholders such as customers, suppliers, and shareholders who are related to the core functions of the business. Finally, it outlines external stakeholders like the government, local community, pressure groups, and media who are not directly involved but have interest in the business. Stakeholders provide feedback, influence product development, build long-term relationships, and help companies achieve their objectives.
This document provides an overview of business fundamentals and the business environment. It discusses the key characteristics of business including the exchange of goods/services and profit motive. It also examines the changing nature of business due to factors like globalization and technology. The document defines business environment and explains that it consists of internal factors controlled by the business and external factors outside its control. It provides examples of internal factors such as organizational structure and culture. The external environment is categorized into micro environment including customers, competitors and public, and macro environment. The relationship between business and its environment is described as mutually dependent and uncertain.
Computer Network Unit IV - Lecture Notes - Network LayerMurugan146644
油
Title:
Lecture Notes - Unit IV - The Network Layer
Description:
Welcome to the comprehensive guide on Computer Network concepts, tailored for final year B.Sc. Computer Science students affiliated with Alagappa University. This document covers fundamental principles and advanced topics in Computer Network. PDF content is prepared from the text book Computer Network by Andrew S. Tenanbaum
Key Topics Covered:
Main Topic : The Network Layer
Sub-Topic : Network Layer Design Issues (Store and forward packet switching , service provided to the transport layer, implementation of connection less service, implementation of connection oriented service, Comparision of virtual circuit and datagram subnet), Routing algorithms (Shortest path routing, Flooding , Distance Vector routing algorithm, Link state routing algorithm , hierarchical routing algorithm, broadcast routing, multicast routing algorithm)
Other Link :
1.Introduction to computer network - /slideshow/lecture-notes-introduction-to-computer-network/274183454
2. Physical Layer - /slideshow/lecture-notes-unit-ii-the-physical-layer/274747125
3. Data Link Layer Part 1 : /slideshow/lecture-notes-unit-iii-the-datalink-layer/275288798
Target Audience:
Final year B.Sc. Computer Science students at Alagappa University seeking a solid foundation in Computer Network principles for academic.
About the Author:
Dr. S. Murugan is Associate Professor at Alagappa Government Arts College, Karaikudi. With 23 years of teaching experience in the field of Computer Science, Dr. S. Murugan has a passion for simplifying complex concepts in Computer Network
Disclaimer:
This document is intended for educational purposes only. The content presented here reflects the authors understanding in the field of Computer Network
Finals of Rass MELAI : a Music, Entertainment, Literature, Arts and Internet Culture Quiz organized by Conquiztadors, the Quiz society of Sri Venkateswara College under their annual quizzing fest El Dorado 2025.
Digital Tools with AI for e-Content Development.pptxDr. Sarita Anand
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This ppt is useful for not only for B.Ed., M.Ed., M.A. (Education) or any other PG level students or Ph.D. scholars but also for the school, college and university teachers who are interested to prepare an e-content with AI for their students and others.
APM event hosted by the South Wales and West of England Network (SWWE Network)
Speaker: Aalok Sonawala
The SWWE Regional Network were very pleased to welcome Aalok Sonawala, Head of PMO, National Programmes, Rider Levett Bucknall on 26 February, to BAWA for our first face to face event of 2025. Aalok is a member of APMs Thames Valley Regional Network and also speaks to members of APMs PMO Interest Network, which aims to facilitate collaboration and learning, offer unbiased advice and guidance.
Tonight, Aalok planned to discuss the importance of a PMO within project-based organisations, the different types of PMO and their key elements, PMO governance and centres of excellence.
PMOs within an organisation can be centralised, hub and spoke with a central PMO with satellite PMOs globally, or embedded within projects. The appropriate structure will be determined by the specific business needs of the organisation. The PMO sits above PM delivery and the supply chain delivery teams.
For further information about the event please click here.
Prelims of Rass MELAI : a Music, Entertainment, Literature, Arts and Internet Culture Quiz organized by Conquiztadors, the Quiz society of Sri Venkateswara College under their annual quizzing fest El Dorado 2025.
Research & Research Methods: Basic Concepts and Types.pptxDr. Sarita Anand
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This ppt has been made for the students pursuing PG in social science and humanities like M.Ed., M.A. (Education), Ph.D. Scholars. It will be also beneficial for the teachers and other faculty members interested in research and teaching research concepts.
How to Configure Flexible Working Schedule in Odoo 18 EmployeeCeline George
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In this slide, well discuss on how to configure flexible working schedule in Odoo 18 Employee module. In Odoo 18, the Employee module offers powerful tools to configure and manage flexible working schedules tailored to your organization's needs.
APM People Interest Network Conference 2025
- Autonomy, Teams and Tension
- Oliver Randall & David Bovis
- Own Your Autonomy
Oliver Randall
Consultant, Tribe365
Oliver is a career project professional since 2011 and started volunteering with APM in 2016 and has since chaired the People Interest Network and the North East Regional Network. Oliver has been consulting in culture, leadership and behaviours since 2019 and co-developed HPTM速an off the shelf high performance framework for teams and organisations and is currently working with SAS (Stellenbosch Academy for Sport) developing the culture, leadership and behaviours framework for future elite sportspeople whilst also holding down work as a project manager in the NHS at North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust.
David Bovis
Consultant, Duxinaroe
A Leadership and Culture Change expert, David is the originator of BTFA and The Dux Model.
With a Masters in Applied Neuroscience from the Institute of Organisational Neuroscience, he is widely regarded as the Go-To expert in the field, recognised as an inspiring keynote speaker and change strategist.
He has an industrial engineering background, majoring in TPS / Lean. David worked his way up from his apprenticeship to earn his seat at the C-suite table. His career spans several industries, including Automotive, Aerospace, Defence, Space, Heavy Industries and Elec-Mech / polymer contract manufacture.
Published in Londons Evening Standard quarterly business supplement, James Caans Your business Magazine, Quality World, the Lean Management Journal and Cambridge Universities PMA, he works as comfortably with leaders from FTSE and Fortune 100 companies as he does owner-managers in SMEs. He is passionate about helping leaders understand the neurological root cause of a high-performance culture and sustainable change, in business.
Session | Own Your Autonomy The Importance of Autonomy in Project Management
#OwnYourAutonomy is aiming to be a global APM initiative to position everyone to take a more conscious role in their decision making process leading to increased outcomes for everyone and contribute to a world in which all projects succeed.
We want everyone to join the journey.
#OwnYourAutonomy is the culmination of 3 years of collaborative exploration within the Leadership Focus Group which is part of the APM People Interest Network. The work has been pulled together using the 5 HPTM速 Systems and the BTFA neuroscience leadership programme.
https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/apm-people-network/about/
Prelims of Kaun TALHA : a Travel, Architecture, Lifestyle, Heritage and Activism quiz, organized by Conquiztadors, the Quiz society of Sri Venkateswara College under their annual quizzing fest El Dorado 2025.
How to Modify Existing Web Pages in Odoo 18Celine George
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In this slide, well discuss on how to modify existing web pages in Odoo 18. Web pages in Odoo 18 can also gather user data through user-friendly forms, encourage interaction through engaging features.
QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online How to Make the MoveTechSoup
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If you use QuickBooks Desktop and are stressing about moving to QuickBooks Online, in this webinar, get your questions answered and learn tips and tricks to make the process easier for you.
Key Questions:
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* Will my current version of QuickBooks Desktop stop working?
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management102-161013082639.pdf
1. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
The business environment may be classified into two types:
EXTERNAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
refers to the forces/factors outside the organization which my
affect, either positively or negatively, the performance of the
organization.
INTERNALBUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
refers to the forces/factors within the organization which my
affect, either positively or negatively, the performance of the
organization.
2. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
The GENERAL EXTERNAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT includes:
Economic
Socio-cultural
Politico-legal
Demographic
Technological
World and ecological situations.
3. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
The SPECIFIC EXTERNAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT includes:
Stakeholders
Customers
Pressure groups
Investors
Employees
4. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
The INTERNAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT includes:
The organizations resources
Research and development
Production
Procurement of supplies
Products and services offered
5. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING
Involves the seeking for and sorting through data about
the organizations environment.
is a process of gathering, analyzing, and dispensing
information for tactical or strategic purposes.
It is monitoring and interpreting sweep of social,
political, economic, ecological, and technological events
to spot budding trends that could eventually impact
industry
6. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING
Involves the seeking for and sorting through data about
the organizations environment.
is a process of gathering, analyzing, and dispensing
information for tactical or strategic purposes.
It is monitoring and interpreting sweep of social,
political, economic, ecological, and technological events
to spot budding trends that could eventually impact
industry
7. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
COMPONENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING
The development of a competitive mindset
Considering of future business scenarios
Business prediction/forecasting
Benchmarking
The process of measuring or comparing ones own products
services and practices with those of the recognized industry
leaders in order to identify areas for improvement
8. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
Is an individuals ability to favorably receive and adjust to
an unfamiliar way of doing things.
MONOCHRONIC CULTURE
Is a culture where people tend to do one thing at a
time.
POLYCHRONIC CULTURE
Is a culture that is more flexible on time and it is used
to accomplish many different things at one time.
9. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Is a total process which includes not only economic
growth or the increase in the amount of goods and
services produced by the countrys economy but also
consider the social, political, cultural and spiritual aspects
of the countrys growth.
10. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PHASES/STAGES
Economic growth
Improvement of human development index
Availability of benefits provided by science and
technology
Societal improvement of the opportunities and
General welfare of its members.
11. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
Is a collection of people working together to achieve a
common purpose related to their organizations mission,
vision, goals and objectives and sharing a common
organizational culture.
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Is the set of beliefs and values shared by organization
members and which guide them as they work together
to achieve their common purpose.
12. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
Is a collection of people working together to achieve a
common purpose related to their organizations mission,
vision, goals and objectives and sharing a common
organizational culture.
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Is the set of beliefs and values shared by organization
members and which guide them as they work together
to achieve their common purpose.
13. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
TYPES OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
SIMPLE BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
Is an organization with few departments, centralized authority
with a wide span of control, with few formal rules and
regulations
FUNCTIONAL BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
Groups together people with similar or related duties,
practices, delegation of authority to functional managers like
the personal manager, sales manager or financial managers
but allow CEOs to retain authority for strategic decisions.
14. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
TYPES OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
DIVISIONAL BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
Is made up of semi-autonomous, separate business units, with
a division head responsible for his units performance.
NON-PROFIT BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
Are organizations designed for the purpose of achieving their
goals, giving service to clients without expecting monetary
gains or financial benefits for their endeavors
15. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
TYPES OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
PROFIT BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
Are organizations designed for the purpose of achieving their
goals and achieving stability through income generation and
profit making.
OPEN/FLEXIBLE BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
Are formed to meet todays changing work environment and
includes: Team structures, matrix business organizations,
project business structures, boundary less business
organizations and virtual business organizations.
16. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT
Refers to specific groups of people with which the
company/firm interacts
The companys customers, rival firms, new entrants, substitutes
and suppliers make up the firms competitive environment
forces.
The abovementioned competitive environment forces have
the power to influence the nature of the competition among
rival companies so the firm must learn to adapt to or influence
also the said competition.
17. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT
The less power each of these competitive environment forces
have, the more profitable the industry will be.
The firms managers must be able to identify the varying
needs of its customers and focus on creating customer value.
The firm must also know the answers to the questions who
are our rival companies? who are the new entrants to the
industry? what are their different or new and better ways of
providing value to customers?
18. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT
The firm must realize that the substitutes are the biggest
opportunity or threat in an industry and this implies that they
may have to think of new strategies in order to compete with
them. (landline phones have cellphones as substitute)
The firm must also realize the importance of their suppliers
that provide them with major inputs: raw materials for
manufacturing goods, money from investors, and financial
institutions, and people who supply them with new ideas and
help in the production of goods and services that they offer.
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COMPANY
suppliers
customers
Rival firms
substitutes
New
entrants
20. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
TASK 1
Identify and list down the customers, rival firms, new entrants,
substitutes and suppliers of Philippine Airlines (PAL) or any
known Philippine Company listed among the top 100 Philippine
Corporations.
21. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
ASSESSMENT 1
Which cultural dimensions are practiced in the Philippines? Put a
(/) or an (x) mark beside the cultural dimension to express your
affirmative or negative response.
1. Low power distance 6. Collectivism
2. High power distance 7. masculinity
3. Low uncertainty avoidance 8. Femininity
4. High uncertainty avoidance 9. Individualism
5. Short term thinking 10. Long term thinking
22. CHAPTER 2 : THE FIRM and its ENVIRONMENT
ASSESSMENT 2
Fill in the blanks with the correct answer. Answer may be one of
the following: Simple, Functional, Divisional, Profit, Non-Profit,
Open/Flexible, Boundaryless or Virtual Business Organization
(1) ___________ Business Organizations maintain their stability
through income generation.
(2) ___________ Business Organizations made up of semi-
autonomous units.
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(3) ___________ Business Organizations formed to meet todays
changing work environment.
(4)___________ Business Organizations is easy to manage because it
has few departments, centralized authority and few rules and
regulations.
(5) ___________ Business Organizations that groups together those
with similar or related specialized duties.
(6)___________ Business Organizations that assigns experts
belonging to different departments to work together on one or
more projects.
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(7) ___________ Business Organizations who design is flexible and
unstructured.
(8)___________ Business Organizations whose members are
physically dispersed and who, oftentimes, communicate
electronically through computers.