MACRO ENV COMPETITIVE ENV ENV ANALYSIS ENV RESPONSE CULTURAL ENV 10 pt Eleanor M. Savko MACRO ENV COMPETITIVE ENV ENV ANALYSIS 10/28/2019 ENV RESPONSE CULTURAL ENV 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 30 pt 30 pt 30 pt 30 pt 30 pt 40 pt 40 pt 40 pt 40 pt 40 pt 50 pt 50 pt 50 pt 50 pt 50 pt
Things outside of the firm’s boundaries
What is the external environment?
Includes the economy, technology, laws, demographics, social issues, natal eeccgy
What is the macro-environment?
Demographics
What are measures of the characteristics that comprise a group?
OSHA, ICC, FAA, EEOC, NLRB, EPA
What are regulatory agencies?
BP, Union Carbide
What are companies that are well known for harming the natural environment?
Harvard professor who created the model for competitive environment
Who is Michael Porter?
New entrants, suppliers, customers, rivals, substitutes/complements
What are the elements of the 5-Forces Model?
Name for things that keep you from competing in a market
What are barriers to entry?
Netflix instead of the movies, I-tunes instead of CDs, tablets instead of laptops
What are examples of substitutes?
Switching costs
What are costs incurred when changing suppliers/products?
A narrative that describes a set of future conditions
What is a scenario?
Method for predicting what will happen in the future.
What is forecasting?
Southwest Airlines looking to NASCAR to learn how to turn a plane around faster
What is benchmarking?
Environmental _______ describes a high number of interconnected issues in an industry, and environmental _________describes high rates of change in an industry
What are complexity and dynamism?
Lack of information needed to predict the future
What is environmental uncertainty?
Diversification
What describes firms that make different products in different locations in different businesses?
Getting rid of an unprofitable business
What is divestiture?
________is when equal size companies join together, and _____is when one larger company takes over a smaller company
What are “merger” and “acquisition?
Of prospectors and defenders, companies that protect their turf
What are defenders?
Companies that make their own future use ______ strategies
What is independent?
A description of the purpose of an organization’s existence
What is a mission statement?
Group, adhocracy, hierarchy, and rational?
What are 4 types of organizational culture?
Vision
What is a future desired state of an organization?
The set of important assumptions about the organization and its goals and practices that members of the company share
What is organization culture?
The patterns of attitudes and behavior that shape people’s experience of an organization
What is organization climate?