International Business Environment : Individual Assignment

There are many things that contribute to making a business successful, such as a good strategic plan that includes the mission, vision, and values for an organization. The mission is the basic purpose of the organization, as well as its scope of operations. It is a statement of the organization’s reason for existing and the shared purpose of the people in the organization. The mission often is written in terms of the general clients it services. Depending on the scope of the organization, the mission may be broad or narrow (Snell, Morris, Bohlander, 2014). For example, I work for a well-known hospital in Ohio and the mission is to provide better care of the sick, investigation into their problems, and further education of those who serve.

How effectively do Canadian businesses and government engage together to promote a shared vision and agenda in the global business environment? Do Canadians strike an effective balance between private sector pursuit of global business and public sector support and enablement?

My organisation’s mission is to provide an efficient and helpful service to all our customers so that our client base grows.

Q10. Although forces in the foreign environment are the same as those in the domestic environment, they operate differently. Why is this so?

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Business environment is all about the combination of internal and external factors that may influence a business’ ways of operating such as: clients, suppliers, its competitors... stakeholders decide to start a business for many reasons: to pursue an interest or a hobby, mainly: to be their own boss. In other terms, people think that being your own boss, mainly as a sole trader gives you many opportunities although there are drawbacks as well. They also have interest in business they want to be successful.

Re-location of employment in globalised world. E.g. Call Centre customer convenience across time zones, or pressurised workforce?

The organization creates the products that its intended customers want to buy and define and improve the characteristics of products or service that meet its customers ' expectations, not only now but in the future.

Mission: a statement of the organization’s function in society that often identifies its customers, markets, products, and technologies.

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Tata Motors is the world’s fourth-largest bus and truck manufacturer and India’s largest automobile company.

T2 (Tea Too) is a tea heaven, a tea-lovers’ heaven. It is a premium brand established in 1996 in Australia over 18 years ago and cherished internationally by all tea devotees. It has 60 stores throughout in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and America. However, the first retail outlet is located in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Maryanne Shearer is the creative director of T2 - Australia’s leading tea retailer, with largest range of tea and tea wares in Australia. It offers the country’s largest range of premium, fragrant tea and tea wares from all around the globe. Tea devotees can spend hours at their taster table, trying all the different types of hot and cold teas they have come up with. It’s

Apple Inc. was founded in 1977. To date, this company has continually offered a wide range of products to meet the growing demands of customers all over the world. Apple not only produces and sells computer software and cellphones; they also distribute consumer electronic products around the globe. Increasing the value of shareholder and coming up with new inventive products is a constant process for Apple, and Apple continues to do so with their popularity around the world with about 301 store locations in 10 different countries. Aside from all of

In a global environment, the strategies that managers pursue have a significant effect on a business performance as compared to the competitors. Hill and Jones define strategy as a set of actions that a company’s managers put in place in order to increase performance of the company (2013). When the strategies lead to a superior performance of a company relative to its competitors, then the company is said to be at a competitive advantage. This is a case study of Federal Express, in the small package express delivery industry. It

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