Abstract:
The article has been compiled in order to explore the relation between the external environment analysis and the company’s strategy. The analysis of the external environment, how it influences the company’s decision making. The importance of external environment analysis as effective strategies cannot be made without firstly identifying and knowing the environment you are or will be working in. The micro and macro factors.
Keywords:
Adaptation; strategy; price regulation; technology; policies
Introduction:
The system is an expansive based idea, evaluating to a specific degree intensity of the organization, destinations detailing and arrangement fundamental in accomplishing these objectives. The pith of methodology definition
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Multinational companies should develop a coherent international marketing plan in order to prosper in every mean. (D. Vrontis and P. Pavlou)
Companies should keep this in mind that external environment of the company should firstly be analyzed properly before developing an effective strategy for the business (Dirk Morschett). The external environment covers many aspects for the company. They both are considered under two factors the macro-environment and the micro-environment (Hanna Schramm-Klein).
According to İhsan Yüksel, the macro-environment of a company covers forces, for example, social, cultural, legal, economic, political and technological. Within this are incorporated elements, for example, demographics, green issues and larger societal and environmental forces. The micro-environment includes other environmental factors, such as the structure of the market, the suppliers, and customers, trends of the market, the public and
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The environmental factors have an important impact on the strategies that a business develops. These factors are never stable and can change quickly, however they affect business a lot. It helps in analyzing the changes and implementing them in a business. The company that adapts its strategy to the changes of external environment is likely to be more competitive in the business.
Any organization is an open system between itself and its external environment up to a series of relationships that influence each other. Organizations impact the external environment essentially through its items and administrations. Additionally that it is socially dependable, is outfitted to different firms that make their blemish on the social group to which they belong. However, the external environment influencing the organizational works accessible in market data, input supply, the approaching patterns, new authoritative and administrative changes.
We must conclude that the accompanying sorts of outside condition are:
• Turbulent, portrayed by quick changes created by innovation, financial changes, political, administrative;
• Antagonistic vibe, portrayed by solid rivalry between clients, assets, or both,
• Differenced, portrayed by an assortment of innovations, markets and
Q1 : (Philip,2011) “Marketing environment is consists of the actors and forces outside the marketing department that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers” . The marketing environment consists of micro and macro environment . Macro environment have larger societal forces that effect the microenvironment , it includes : demographic , economic , cultural and other forces. The demographic is the study of human populations like : gender , age, location , density and other statistics . The demographic trends have impacted the marketing includes : changing age , population growth and so on , for example , this changing will affect the united airlines decision because demographic
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Argos is large retail company that acquires 170 types of products within. Argos have made the change in the online business by giving opportunity to their customer to buy and pay through online. Argos now have been planning to enter Indian market through their furniture product. A critical analysis on the micro and macro environment will be done on this company with marketing planning and possible risk analysis. 2 Environment Analysis for Argos 2.1 Macro Environmental Analysis
In this part of the research, macro and micro environmental aspect used to analyze music industry. PESTEL analysis used for macro environmental and Porter five forces for micro environmental. Through PESTEL analysis, it is easy to face with a lot of factors such as Political and Economic in music business. But the most important factor in this kind of analysis is Technology because it is also heavily influencing social factors within the music industry, according to developments in social and mobile networks. Moreover, in micro environment analysis using Porter’s five forces there is opportunity to understand better the customers, competitors, suppliers and all the others which are responsible in the music industry.
Howard Schultz is the American businessman, chairman and executive director of one of the largest network of café - Starbucks. According to many experts and business publications, the company's success in the industry is caused by the style of Schultz leadership. He founded the company in which employees are valued and respected, regardless of origin, skin color and level of education. So, the transformational style created the following views of the leader of 21 centuries that, according to Mr. Schultz, are vital.
The external business environment consists of a set of external factors, such as economic factors, social factors, political and legal factors, demographic factors, technical factors amongst others, which are not controllable in nature and affects the business decisions of a firm. The external environment includes opportunities and threats which can impact on the marketing strategy of Huawei. As mentioned, marketers cannot control the factors of the external environment. However, they should try to understand the changes in the external environment and assess the impact of those changes on the target market. In fact, a proper understanding of these factors helps organizations to identify potential business opportunities and threats in the international market (Baines et al., 2011).
Part A Macro environment is important factor affecting the development of enterprises. A macro environment is the condition that exists in the economy as a whole, rather than in a specific sector or region.(Macro Environment n.d.) Cultures, politics, technology, nature, economy and demographic are the six major forces in the company 's macro-environment.(Kotler & Armstrong 2014, p96) Political factors Political factors include government regulations and legal issues and define both formal and informal rules.(PEST Analysis n.d.) All the companies have to follow these rules.
We can look through its macro environment by six factors. The six factors are: political, economic, cultural, technological, natural, and demographic environment. The macro environment analysis is to find out the possible threats and opportunities of the brand. The analysis will
Political environment includes laws, government agencies, and pressure group that influence and limit various organizations and individuals in a given society. Economic environment consists of economic factors that affect consumer purchasing power and spending patterns. Social factors include the demographic and cultural aspects of the external macro environment. In which demography is the study of human population in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation, and other statistics; cutural environment consist of institution of other forces that affect society’s basic values, perceptions, preferences, and behaviors. Therefore, these factors have an impact on customer’s needs and size of potential markets.
To analysis the microenvironment of the business PESTEL framework is used PESTEL FRAMEWORK 1. Political factor Political system related automobile industry is very complicated. The western world is less concern for leading cars because leading car manufactures are from western world. The political issue is more complicated in emerging countries (Bossink and bluaw, 2002).Taxation is also a political factor that affects automobile industries. There are different tax system and import duty in different countries.
MACRO ENVIORNMENT: Macro environmental factors are those irrepressible external factors that affect the company’s decision making process. These factors include demographic, socio-cultural, economic, political-legal and also the natural factors. Demographic factors – Demographic factors include age, sex, religion, location, thickness, occupation etc. Apple Company has 217 stores in United Stated and about 273 stores worldwide.
Societal Environment: In general, these forces seemed to have some varying levels of impact at various stages in this company’s life
Micro and Macro Environmental factors that influence Marketing decisions (LO 2.1) Micro Environment: This indicates those elements over which the marketing firm has control or which it can use in order to gain information that will better help it in its marketing operations. Furthermore, these are the factors close to a business that have a direct impact on its business operations and success. It is important to carry out a full analysis of micro environmental factors prior to decide corporate strategy.
INTRODUCTION Performance management Performance management is an important part of the company. Companies based on criteria set by the partner for evaluation, so that company manger can knows the performance of employees. Also make the partner aware of their position in the company, pragmatic to complete the work. Background of Starbucks Starbucks is the world’s largest multinational coffee chain.
There are six major macro environmental factors of a company which are demographic environment, economic environment,