...1) Macro environmental analysis Macro analysis is also known as PESTEL analysis which stands for- Political factors Economical factors Social factors Technological factors Environmental factors Legal factors Political factors The business operation of an organization is always influenced by the policies of state and its government. McDonald’s business is also under the control of government’s rules and regulations. The main issue of controlling food business is health and other issues are license, employee laws, tax issues etc. McDonald’s follows the local government’s policies as well as foreign investment policies on its franchise business strategy. Political instability of local state also affects McDonald’s business. Political factors The business operation of an organisation is always influenced by the policies of state and its government. McDonald’s business is also under the control of government’s rules and regulations. The main issue of controlling food business is health and other issues are license, employee laws, tax issues etc. McDonald’s follows the local government’s policies as well as foreign investment policies on its franchise business strategy. Political instability of local state is also affects McDonald’s business. Economical factors Economical factors always come as vital issue to business organisations. For example, more or less all companies are affected by ongoing global economic slowdown. Due to international business operation, McDonald’s...
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...the significance of the theories in the field of nursing and its development as a profession. she includes illustrations and statements that are very helpful in understanding the theories. Each chapter was developed having different pattern depending upon the context and its scientific perspective. It aims to give an encouragement for contributors and to make each chapter complete and interesting. This book offers assistance to nursing students in exploring and appreciating nursing theories and their use in nursing practice and scholarship. Rather than a practical handbook to producing and/or publishing, this book is indispensable because of its honest perspective and its encouraging approach. This book is very useful in making concept analysis because every concept is clear and organized in a way that it can easily be understood. Moreover, its content are very detailed and extensive which made it very favorable. Walker, L.O.,& Avant, K.C. Strategies for Theory Construction in Nursing(3rd ed.). Norwalk, CT: Appletion & Lange, 1995. The book of Avant and Walker offers detailed and easy-to-understand information about constructing theories in nursing and a very detailed step in analyzing concepts. Each chapter was designed to capture the interest of the reader by emphasizing the importance of different strategies and approaches in constructing nursing theories. The book is very important for nurses because it will provide them strategies in understanding a concept in a very...
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...Business Environment Analysis Background Environmental analysis is a systematic process that starts from identification of environmental factors, assessing their nature and impact, auditing them to find their impact to the business, and making various profiles for positioning. A common process of environmental analysis or scanning is discussed in the following section. Environmental Analysis Process A business manager should be able to analyze the environment to grasp opportunities or face the threats. Organizations need to build strength and repair their weakness available in the business environment. Therefore, this process consists not only a single steps but a process of various steps. Environmental analysis comprises scanning, monitoring, analyzing, and forecasting the business situation. Scanning is to get the relevant information from the information overload. It is to focus on the most relevant information. Monitoring is to check the nature of the environmental factors. Analyzing requires data collection and use of different required tools and techniques. Forecasting is to find the future possibilities based on the past results and present scenario. Environmental analysis process is not static but a dynamic process. It may differ depending on the situation. However, a general process with few common steps can be identified as the process of environmental analysis these are a) Monitoring or identifying environmental factors, b) Scanning and selecting...
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...The environment acts upon the individual in a number of ways. Of course, the ways in which a given environment shapes a person's behavior depends on the nature of the environment and the nature of the person, as well. For most of us, our first environments were households with one or two parents, and we experienced them as children. Either our mother or father (or both) rewarded us with praise for doing things right, such as learning to walk, talk, potty train, pick up toys. They may also be punished for behavior that is not consistent with parental expectations and/or demands (As cited by Funder, 2013). For instance, a child may be put in "timeout" for not listening or breaking rules, in general. Thus, operant conditioning is the most significant type of learning that a person experiences as a youngster. In the case of the three-year-old girl, Olivia, she was classically-conditioned to associate a neutral stimulus (coughing) with being tickled by her sister -- a testament to the power of this kind of behavior modification, especially as a youngster (lovelaughliv42, 2011). Moreover, our conditioning continues throughout life -- through school, work, child-rearing, retirement, and so on. However, the environment, according to social learning theorists, also affects how we think, perceive, and...
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...Proton’s External Environment Analysis Contents Introduction 4 PART: 1 Proton Introduction 4 About Proton 4 PART: 2 Proton’s External Environment Analysis 5 2.1 PESTEL Analysis 6 2.1.1 Political and legal factors 7 2.1.2 Economic Factors 7 2.1.3 Social-Cultural Factors 8 2.1.4 Technological Factors 8 2.1.5 Environmental Factors 11 2.2 PROTON’s SWOT Analysis 12 2.3 Industry Analysis 12 Proton five forces model 13 2.3.1 Threat of New Entrants 13 2.3.2 Bargaining Power of Suppliers 13 2.3.3 Bargaining Power of Customers 14 2.3.4 Threats of Substitutes 14 2.3.5 Competitive Rivalry between Existing Players 14 2.4 Some other external factors 15 2.4.1 Change in Customer Demand 15 2.4.2 Globalization 16 PART: 3 17 Recommendation 17 3.1 How can we deal with the pressure of innovation? 17 3.2 Cost Control 19 3.4 Innovative feature’s pricing decision 20 3.4 Dealer knowledge in customers 20 Conclusion 20 References 22 Appendixes 25 Appendix-1 Supplier spending on R&D 25 Appendix-2 Changes in external force 25 Appendix-3 Critical industry skills 25 Appendix-4 Expected challenges of automotive industry 26 Introduction The report is going to conduct Proton external analysis and the report has been divided into main three parts. The first part will be discuss some background of the company. The secondary part complete external analysis through using PESTEL, SWOT and Porter five forces model. The third and last part...
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...HP is one of the largest companies in the world but despite its success and multinational reach, it is still subject to forces beyond its control. Hence, in order to properly defend its empire and plan for growth, management of HP have to understand the way the external world works, where it is progressing towards and how it all affects HP. Three broad and different categories form the external environment of HP and these are the general, industry and competitor environments. The more relevant and significant aspects of each will be delved into for the purposes of this analysis. General Environment The general environment affects HP’s operating landscape as well as the markets it competes in. Attempting to strategise without understanding these forces will be disastrous to HP. HP’s presence around the globe requires a multi-ethnic workforce and this exposes it to different value systems. If HP were to impose its successful Silicon Valley mindset on a subsidiary in a different continent, it might not be able to observe the same performance from employees. Even though there are signs of increased receptiveness to American culture from other countries, a drastic change to centuries of heritage cannot be expected. Moreover, as mentioned in the case, the HP-Compaq merger will also raise organisational culture issues and it will be a complicated process in optimising synergy in two geographically large companies. The origin of HP and its future lies in technological progress...
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...An analysis of the external environment Introduction The external environment in a business set up consists of the factors outside the organization but still affect its smooth running either positively or negatively. External factors of the environment are divided into two parts namely: directly interactive forces and indirectly interactive forces. The directly interactive forces includes: owners, customers, suppliers, competitors, employees and employees union. The indirect interactive forces includes: socio cultural, political legal, technological, economic and global influences. External factors are the deep internal analysis of the environment. These factors are further grouped into two categories i.e. opportunities and threats. Opportunities are the chances that exist within the external environment and whether the organization wants to exploit them or not. The threats are four factors that threaten the smooth operation of the company. Current and Future External Factors Affecting Business Environment According to (Nebblet, p4), the external environment variables play a role in determining the opportunities and threats a firm faces are twofold. Variables originating beyond a single firm’s are operating situation and variables influencing a firm’s competitive situation. The two sets provide challenges faced by a particular firm in attempting to acquire or attract resources. These two variables are discussed below: • Economic: This reflects on...
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...Apple: An Environment Analysis Environment has a huge impact on all organisations. It is a huge challenge to manage the environment in an organisation favour. However, some organisations were able to make use of this vital element. Apple Inc. is one of these successful companies who were and still until now managing it environment efficiently. Apple is a company that started in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as a computer company. Its market value has fluctuated over the years. In 1996, it was almost be out of business. However, in year 2000 the company value started to rise to the extent that it considered today as one of the most valued organisations in the world. This essay will provide an analysis of Apple’s environment explaining how Apple’s management is able to manage its environment. The organisational environment is divided into two sections. These sections are internal environment and external environment. The internal environment consists of all the fundamental aspects that are changed and controlled by the organisation (Porter, 1979). For example, the owners of the organisation, the employees, board of directors and culture are considered parts of the internal environment. The external environment, on the other hand, includes of all the elements that form a complicated structure around the organisation. These component are beyond the organisation control. The external environment is divided into two sections, microenvironment and macro environment (Balaure...
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...School Environment Analysis Essay Grand Canyon University: EDA-575 February 8, 2012 School Environment Analysis No school is a utopia. Each presents unique problems and challenges, and with that comes opportunities for change and successes. Many times it takes a giant collaborative effort to bring about change, and there are times where it seems that the challenges are insurmountable. I work in a public inner city high school in Syracuse, NY. There are issues within the school including a high drop-out rate, incidences of bullying, little parent involvement, lack of technology, and old school materials. This high school is in a high poverty area, and the surrounding community is not very active or involved with the school. All of these factors combined with many newer teachers in the school and some new members of the administration lead to a school requiring assistance in many areas. In this essay, I will explain many of the environmental and contextual factors and describe some potential solutions to address these factors. One environmental factor influencing my school is the high rate of poverty in the surrounding area of the school. Students are often unprepared for school with proper materials. Education is not been a major priority for many students since it was not very important to their parents or guardians. If students have a little extra money, they will quickly spend it on snacks on their way to school instead of making sure they are prepared...
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...School Environment Analysis There are many environment, contextual factors and community needs of schools across the county. If you ever get the chance to sit down and really think about the different schools around where you live, please ask yourself what you think some of the effects of an involved or not community in the community school in the area where you live? At my current school some of the effects are socioeconomic, geographic, features of the classroom, ethnicity, and community and parent involvement. The overall environment does have an effect on the performance of each individual student. The community that I am a teacher is in Orlando, Florida. The community is Pine Hills which is a suburban area which consist of several subdivision and apartments. The geographic location has a vast effect on the community. The students can sometimes insist that their behavior should be a certain way because of what they see at home. According to the setting in which a school is located impacts the culture and values of its students and therefore their behaviors. In 2013 Pine Hills is perceived to be a high crime area .There are many schools, churches, and community organizations that assist the community effort for change. The police department in Orlando have increase their crime prevention unit in order to assist the neighborhoods to prevent crime in the surrounding areas. There has been a vast effort from the code enforcement in order...
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...Donell Jones NT2580 Unit 2 Assignment 2: Microsoft Environment Analysis 5 vulnerabilities for this workgroup LAN based on the Microsoft Security Advisories numbers. 2755801, 2719662, 2854544, 2846338, 2847140. 2846338 involves privilege elevation, Vulnerability in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution, and is a high priority. Three vulnerabilities and Solutions related to client configurations. Advisory Number: 2719662 Microsoft is announcing the availability of an automated Microsoft Fix it solution that disables Windows Sidebar and Gadgets on supported editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Disabling Windows Sidebar and Gadgets can help protect customers from potential attacks that leverage Gadgets to execute arbitrary code. Customers should consider the following ways that an attacker could leverage Gadgets to execute arbitrary code: Microsoft is aware that some legitimate Gadgets running in Windows Sidebar could contain vulnerabilities. An attacker who successfully exploited a Gadget vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take complete control of the affected system. An attacker could create a malicious Gadget and then trick a user into installing the malicious Gadget. Once installed, the malicious Gadget could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative...
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...School Environment Analysis Charlene N. Vance Grand Canyon University: EDA-575 October 29, 2014 School Environment Analysis Identifying the needs of a school can be very perplexing and daunting for those in leadership. There can be a variety of issues and there must be a systematic approach to solving them. Churchman (1979) suggested that analysis of a system ought to determine whether influences on the system are environmental, systematic, or neither, for such influences are potential growth and survival factors. The leadership must assess each component and how they are to show growth and improvement in their school. At Spring Mountain Elementary School, there are a large number of issues that overwhelm the environment of the school. In my opinion, these factors are what prohibit the school from making any strong gains in the community and with student achievement. There are factors ranging from the staff’s perception of bullying, the stress of teachers and how it impacts the learning environment, and having enough physical activity for students. Considering the factor of the perception of bullying by staff members at Spring Mountain, there is a tainted image of bullying and the approach to such possibilities is not addressed. At Spring Mountain the teachers are very loving and supportive of the students. I have seen many incidents of students who were having meltdowns or issues from home or other problems being nurtured and taken care of by their teachers or...
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...Running head: School Environment 1 School Environment Stacy Paris Grand Canyon University: EDU 575 September 10, 2014 School Environment School Environment Analysis 2 The environment of a school is very complex. There are many elements to consider such as; student demographics, school climate, community environment, geographic location and political climate, and the instructional program. All of these are areas that deserve careful consideration as they influence the perceptions of a school and weather learning does or does not take place in that school. School leadership must use data to identify problem areas, develop possible solutions for these problems, analyze the feasibility and then apply these solutions. Adjustments must be made along the way to ensure that progress is continual. In the case of the target school, more careful consideration is needed in the areas of its instructional program, the school climate, and the political environment. In the following paragraphs, each element will be examined and possible solutions to problem areas will be identified. Environmental and Contextual Factors The target school is a free, public charter school in its fourth year. It consists of two campuses located roughly two miles apart. The primary campus houses one class of 3K (private pay), one class of 4K (private pay) and four classes of 5K students. The elementary campus is made up of four first grade classrooms, four second grade classrooms, four third...
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...Analysis of the Macroenvironment The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain the macro environment of a company in the marketing setting, and to outline the macro environment of Cadbury Chocolate. In their book Principles of marketing (Armstrong 2010), the authors give six factors that are the macro environment of a trading entity. They are 1. the demographic environment, 2. the economic environment, 3. the natural environment, 4. the technological environment, 5. the political and social environment and 6. the cultural environment. The demographic environment. Demogrophy refers to the science of vital and social statistics (Delbridge 1997) These statistics of a population will determine the products that the population need or desire, and the type of marketing that will be effective. Australia and other first world countries that are the target market for Cadbury, are countries with a large middle class, that earn a good wage or salary and have a reasonable amount of disposable income. Cadbury chocolate produce a product that is a delicacy and is affordable by a large portion of that population. The economic environment Australia has a strong economy, compared to other first world countries. Unemployment remains in the low five percent range. Confidence in the future, although not high, is not dismal. People who have disposable income are prepared to spend it rather than save. Cadbury Choclate have marketed their product such that it is desirable by, and affordable...
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...MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Library Database Environment DATE: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Analysis of the Database environment This environment in which this database is based on is a library.it seeks to look into a library setting and all attributes associated with a library. Basically a library contains documentation for reference, research and learning purposes with a variety of fields to look into. Some may also have archived materials that are still being used. Current libraries have a section where you can access materials like newspapers to catch up with news updates. This database will use a MYSQL environment to manage the data related to the library and Delphi in designing the interface Problems and constraints The existing library has a category of sections from which reference materials for research and learning can be obtained. Unfortunately no systematic sorting has been done to categorize books in each section. This makes it some worth difficult and time consuming to find a specific book of interest within the sections Objectives of the database environment The objectives of the database environment are enlisted below * Provide an all-in-one system for accessing reference materials * Develop a system that will store user details and item details * Create an easy to understand and friendly environment * Develop a system that can replace the manual library management system * Provide borrow and return records * Provide user access levels(i.e...
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