Macro-environment Analysis – SingPost
Strategic management scholars theorized that the market environment has a strong influence on company strategic decision making and need to be constantly managed in order to maintain the firm strategic and profitability (Aapo Länsiluoto & Tomas Eklund 2008; Chung-An, 2008). The dynamic changes of the business environment may lead to uncertainties, operation constraints, but at the same time create business opportunities and enable management to overcome potential threats (Babatunde & Adebisi 2012). Those firms that are capable to adapt to the environmental changes will successful and remain competitive (Porter 1986) and become more efficient than their competitors (Gimeno & Woo 1996). The PESTEL analysis
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A synthetic approach to religion is the dominant approach in Singapore. In terms of individualism, Singapore is a collectivist society. People belong to in-groups and the family are the model of all social organizations with a moral basis in relationship and task fulfilment always the priority.
A high score in masculine dimension indicates that the society driven by competition, achievement and success. Singapore scores more toward Feminine (48 points). This means that the culture is soft and emphasis on consensus and sympathy are valued and encouraged.
Uncertainty avoidance dimension is the way that a society deals with the unpredictable future. Singapore score low in this dimension as people follow the rules and regulations as a result of high power distance dimension. Singapore has a long term orientation culture to prepare for the future where initiates practical approach, encourage prudence and efforts in modern
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This includes climate, weather, agriculture effects, environmental effects, geographical location and global changes in climate.
Singapore embarked on our green building journey as a commitment to our environment. In a short span of 8 years, the number of green buildings in Singapore had increased a hundred times from a mere 17 in 2005 to almost 1700 in 2013 through the Building & Construction Authority Green Mark certification programme and other various initiatives. According to IMD 2013 word competitiveness yearbook, declares the Singapore is the finest Asian country to work because of its climate and environment policies.
In line with the government initiative, back in 2006, SingPost started its green journey and worked on green building project at headquarters in SingPost Centre (SPC) as to optimise its air-conditioning chiller plant. The project awarded for the 2008 ASEAN Energy Award (Retrofitted Category) at the 26th ASEAN Minister’s Energy Meeting with the an estimated reduction of quarter thousand tons of CO2 emitted a year. Recently, SingPost also committed to support for the Eco-Post Office Project where all Post Offices have been certified green by the Singapore Environment Council (SEC) and some of the initiative includes vehicle emission reduction programme, energy and water conservation measures and waste management plus recycling
Government Facilities Sector is one of the largest and most complex sectors of the 17 critical infrastructures that’s included in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan. The Department of Homeland Security, General Services Administration and the Federal Protective Service (FPS) were given the responsibilities as co-leads and Federal interface for this sector by PPD-21. The government facilities sector will arrange for the protection, safety, and security of all government assets, employees, and visitors to the facilities under its sector, as well as balanced management of physical and cyber risk, so that essential government functions and services are preserved without disruption. The execution of this will require GFS to reduce the nations
While micro environment factors, on the other hand, such as competition norms impact the competitive advantage of the firm. Nordstrom can use the country’s economic factor such as growth rate, inflation & industry’s economic indicators such as apparel stores industry growth rate, consumer spending etc. to monitor the growth of not only retail sector but also that of the organization. Economic factors that Nordstrom should consider while conducting PESTLE analysis
When researching information about Haiti’s cultural dimensions, there wasn’t a significant amount of data available. However, a cultural dimension model will be developed based on personal research(Appendix D). Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimension model is a five-dimension model that rates countries from 1 to 100 based on certain criteria such as power distance, individual vs. collectivism, masculinity vs. femininity, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation. When looking at power distance, which measures how evenly power is distributed and the influence that one has over another, Haiti is assessed at 50.
Climate change is an irreversible consequence of the damage we do to our Earth. If we do not change our ways, the global temperature will swell, causing an unchangeable series of events, consecrating detriments onto all the existence upon Earth. In only about 140 years, the average global temperature has increased 0.8 degrees celsius, and the ramification is the irreparable destruction of the place where we and millions of other species live. The most important consequence of climate change is the global increase in temperature and how that is affecting various animal species all over the Earth, the health of humans, and the rapid rise of sea level.
1 Introduction Argos is an UK based home retail group. It is one of the largest companies of UK that have been running around 737 companies and they have around 340 million visitors of their websites as well. According to a study it has been found that they are covering about 90% of the population of United Kingdom within their 10miles of an Argos branch. As one of the largest company in UK Argos has a decent growth rate of 20%. They have more than 130million customer and around two third of the population have taken under their catalog.
An organization that has a team or horizontal style of work structure and management is called as contemporary organization. Instead of a strict hierarchy, the power is spread out to the whole team in the contemporary organization. It is a more responsive and flexible. Traditional organization is changed to the contemporary organization of business. The traditional organization style concentrated on a pyramid order, with supervisors and managers controlling all components of the representatives beneath them, including interpersonal connections, ventures and disciplinary activities.
Macro-environmental are uncontrollable factors that influence a business’ strategic planning, decision making and operations (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2015). However, by understanding its macro-environmental factors, the business could take advantage of these factors and maximize their opportunities, whilst minimizing their threats. The 6 factors of PESTEL analysis include: Political, Economic, Socio-cultural, Technological, Environmental and Legal factors. In this case, it highlights the contextual information of the civil aviation competition of uncertain environmental, political and economic anarchy for flight
PESTEL analysis is a tool that is used to analyse an organisation’s macro-environment. Political Environment The incident of 9/11 has affected the airline industry adversely. The number of tourists to different countries has immensely decreased due to the fear of safety and security issues. On the other hand countries have put measures in place such as strict visa policies and border controls in an effort to combat terrorism attacks.
PESTEL ANALYSIS Pestel is a strategic analysis tool used by organizations to scan the macro-environment in which they operates, helps to identify external factors that can affect the organization's business activities and performance (Gockeln 2014). Macro-environmental factors are those that affect clothing industry and the industry have no control over rather than adapting to it. By so doing, it gives ability to differentiate themselves from potential competitors and sustain performance. Table 2 depicted, (PESTEL) Political, Economic, Social/ Cultural, Technological, Environmental and Legal external factors. Political factors: these are examined from the political stability point of view, which covers government policy intervention in the economy, deregulation, taxation changes, as well as the attitude of political parties on the government policy.
Introduction Forever 21 is a clothing brand that is based in many countries. Most people would be very familiar with the brand as it caters to them in terms of a fashion retailer. The country that will be in this report would be in Singapore and the purpose of the report is to perform an environmental analysis on a company. The structure would be an introduction, followed by company background, country background, PESTEL analysis, porter’s 5 forces, strategic recommendations and conclusion.
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.
Part A. The primary externals influences to Starbucks PESTEL describes a framework of macro-environmental factors used in the environmental factors component of strategic management. PESTEL analysis includes some several factors: political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors. This report analyzes the factors which have main impact on Starbucks. 1.
Q.1: What micro environmental factors have affected Target’s performance over the past few years? Over the past few years, following are the factors that have affected Target’s performance: 1. Competitors: Walmart’s strategy of providing products at a very low price, affected the consumers in the economic crisis of 2008. This led to Target’s decline in market share as Wal-Mart had a huge micro environment affect as a competitor.
Francis Aguilar (1967) is the first known reference to the origin of the PESTEL analysis. In his study known as Scanning the Business Environment, he studied the environmental factors that affect business environment and come up with the first acronym ‘ETPS’ which meant the Economic, Technical, Political and social factors (Aguilar, 1967). Later Arnold Brown (1967) focused on the study and came up with a new perspective towards the study of social-technical, economic, political, and ecological (STEPE) factors. In 1980, Porter among other authors scanned the business environment and came up with the current acronym PESTEL meaning political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental factors (FME, 2013). According to Collins (1997),
AJINOMOTO (Malaysia) Berhad Part 1: COMPANY BACKGROUND According to Bloomberg, Ajinomoto (Malaysia) Berhad founded in 1961. It was the first Japanese companies that set up in Malaysia. It is acting as producer of Monosodium Glutamate. It produces and sells the monosodium glutamate.