Environmental scanning

Environmental scanning or Analysis involves business managers to study the external environment variables for attaining good result as business operates in an environment. It is also termed as environment monitoring. It is the process of gathering or collecting the information regarding organization, analysing it and forecasting the impact of all predictable trends in environmental changes. Successful marketing strategies are always dependent on such environmental scanning and marketing programmes

Environmental Scanning To assure the success of a business over a long period of time the business must be able to conduct regular analysis of their success. They must be able to determine where they are today and have a goal of where they would like to see themselves 5-10 years down the road. In order to conduct a true analysis of the company, one must complete an environmental scan of their organization. Thus scanning for events, trends, issues and expectations that they may be faced with in the

ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING Environmental scanning is a process of gathering, analyzing, and dispensinginformation for tactical or strategic purposes. The environmental scanning processentails obtaining both factual and subjective information on the businessenvironments in which a company is operating or considering entering.Environmental scanning is the process in which a firm continually collects andevaluates information about its external environment. There are six main categoriesof environmental

1. Environnemental scanning Macro Environment Macro environment is said to be the most general layer of the environment. This consists of broad environmental factors that have an impact on the organization. The PESTEL framework helps us to identify the future trends which might impinge on Nintendo and therefore identify the key drivers of change. On the other hand the five forces framework helps to understand how the competitive dynamics within and around the video game industry are changing

Environmental Scanning Kendra McQueen MGT/498 March 14, 2016 Amy Novoa Environmental Scanning Environmental scanning is an overarching term encompassing the monitoring, evaluation, and dissemination of information relevant to the organizational development of a strategy (Wheelen, Hunger, & Hoffman, Bamford, 2015,). The use of an environmental scan can analyze the competitive advantage of a company, evaluate the strategies a company uses to gain an advantage over their competitors and create

Environmental Analysis Environmental analysis is a process for identifying all external and internal elements that can affect the performance of the organization and evaluating the level of threat or opportunity they present. Opportunity and threat assessments are then incorporated into decision making process in order to better align strategies with the organizations environment (Investor Words, 2015). Every destination needs to know about their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

the most widely recognized approach for considering the external business environment (Gupta, 2013). PESTLE analysis stands for Political, Economic, Social, and Technological, Legal and environmental analysis and describe a framework of macro environmental factors utilized as a part of the environmental scanning component of strategic management. Generally, all the PESTLE factors might not important for all types of industry its depends up industry nature or size. This PESTLE analysis is based on

environment is sum of all forces which act and influence a business. There are internal environmental factors and external environmental factors which can influence each other and work together to affect a business. The business environment is never static and never predictable. The entire organisation whether they are commercial, charities, government

order to be the best , the Famous Brands subsidiary, Mugg & Bean should be in touch with the world around them. It is necessary to engage in Environmental scanning, which is a 360° process done externally as well as internally. Environmental scanning should be done continually in order to ensure that Mugg & Bean functions at optimal level. Environmental scanning will be performed by making use of various tools which can be used to analyse the Micro, Market and Macro environments respectively. A SWOT

allows them to understand where they currently are in the environment, what their capabilities are and how they can utilize these two elements by integrating them to achieve a sustainable, competitive advantage. As a result, they are able to sense environmental change and easily adapt their internal elements to suit the needed changed (Louw & Venter, 2010). This can be represented by the following framework : We recommend that Woolworths use the competitive intelligence cycle to constantly