The Rose Garden : An Organization

Discussion Question 3.1: Why is it important for an organization to study and understand its external environment?

Food orders can also be placed through a website instead of being put on hold and waiting. It helps more then just business owners as well. Websites also allow people to take virtual tours of potential houses they may want to buy, venues to rent, hotels, anywhere a person may be interested without having to leave the comfort of their living room. What better way of showing off your work then a website. For example, barbers can posts pictures of their hair styling and allow people to review them. A website can become a very powerful tool.

4.1.3 How can an E-Business strategy help The Broadway Café attract customers and increase sales?

Since organizations are open and complex adaptive systems they must interact with their external environment. The external environment could consist of many things such as money, people, materials, technology, information, etc. The external environment supplies these inputs and then the organization will create goods or services using the inputs provided by the environment. Organizations are then turning the resources they are provided with into final outputs. This is called an open system. Once the organization has provided the final output for the environment, the environment then consumes the output and then provides consumer feedback that the organization analyses to see

The last external innovation of Kudler Fine Foods from other organizations is catering the organization provides (Apollo Group, Inc., 2011). The catering aspect has not been fully constructed into the business organizational structure, so their approach will stand out from other competitors. Their goal is to provide a link to customers on their website that will allow them to view and order specifics requirements for the event needed to be catered. The website will provide every aspect of what meals, desserts, amount needed, specific arrangements or design the customer desires for the event. With other competitors they require customers to come into the store location to make arrangements, whereas Kudler Fine Foods is providing options for the busy individual to make arrangements via Internet.

The Indianapolis Rose Society coordinated with the Hamilton County Master Gardeners (HCMG) to host a first time festival of roses, Rosefest, in concurrence with the HCMG tea in the garden. Monica Taylor, a member of both societies, served as curator of the garden, and co-organizer of Rosefest, along with Teresa Byington. The Master Gardeners held a morning tea, while roses were in full bloom and smelling so sweetly. The Indianapolis Rose Society members filled the hall with a stunning rose display, including horticulture, arrangements and photography. With no limit on the number of entries, the tables were loaded and gorgeous. Renowned speakers, Peggy Martin, Gaye Hammond, and our own Carol Tumbas, gave enlightening and edifying programs.

It is now, not only commonplace to have a website detailing the operations of your company, but expected. ?The reality is consumer ? likely even you ? turn to the internet to discover what to do, where to go, who to buy things from and more. Keeping this in mind, shopping online isn?t the only reason people go online. Instead, being online leverages multiple avenues for small businesses to gain visibility among consumers.? (Leinbach-Reyhle, 2015). For a small business trying to compete with other small and larger businesses, visibility is key.

Delicate consideration of factors pertaining to the internal and external environment, are a necessity in executing Hyatt’s ultimate goal of “being the preferred brand”. Internal and external environments are factors that may be within or beyond the control of the firm. Theses factors influence the direction, action, structure, and internal process of an organization. The operating, industry, and remote environments are sub-environments that are associated to a firm’s environment (Pearce and Robinson, 2013). Its associates, guests, and owners through its presence in each community it is located in impact Hyatt’s environments.

Internal environment are SW which stands for strength and weakness, actually analysis of internal organization and external environment OT stands f opportunities and threats

‘Organisations are open systems (like organisms) and must have an appropriate relationship with the environment if they are to survive’.

part of the exercise of strategy development. Some parts of the external environment that are usually

External environment refers to external aspects of the surroundings of business enterprise, which have influence on the functioning of business. The external environment can provide both facilitating and inhibiting influences on organizational performance. Key dimension of the external environment principally consists of a micro environment and a macro environment.

Fourth, the organization is represented as being in close inter-relationship with its environment; both influencing it and being influenced by it. The organization does not simply react to its environment but can proactively attempt to change the environment in ways which will benefit the organization.

Organizational environments: Reciprocal relationships exist between an organization and environments; information systems provide organizations a way to identify external changes that might require an organizational response.

Organizations are open systems and must relate to their environments. They must acquire the resources and information needed to function; they must deliver products or services that are valued by customers. An organization 's strategy--how it acquires resources and delivers outputs--is shaped by particular aspects, and features of the environment. Thus, organizations can devise a number of responses for managing environmental interfaces, from internal administrative responses, such as creating special units to scan the environment, to external ,collective responses, such as forming strategic alliances with other organizations.