Learning Team Weekly Reflection
Jennifer Naccarato, Nancy Perez, Anthony Aguirre, Edward Felix
MGT/498
May 5, 2015
Dr. Tim Fish

Learning Team Weekly Reflection
The team discussed the topics covered in the reading material and concluded that it is difficult to forecast and foresee what is significant enough to understand what is applicable information to work with for the success of each of the companies. Seeing as we have each worked in an individual department within the organization, we are unable to predict and foresee when we are not aware of necessary information to understand what direction to go in. We are expecting to learn how to think outside the box and have the capacity to see the big picture. The team knows how strategic management could be advantageous to an organization, and how ethics should be a part of that too. We have seen in our companies on various occasions where people have committed wrong actions and how it could hurt the organization. Those actions can slowly or swiftly take over and destroy an organization. Such unethical behaviors can disrupt the goals of the company to perform efficiently and effectively.
After finishing the homework and reading the objectives, the team was comfortable discussing both internal and external environmental scans and how it is not the same as a SWOT analysis. Environmental scanning is composed of observation, reviewing, and finally circulating the data assembled from internal and external environments based on decisions made by employees of the company. The organization uses this technique in the event of a worst-case scenario; it lets a company to take care of conflicts in instead of fighting to salvage a situation that is causing financial drawbacks for the company.
With reference to discussing the external factors of a business and the reason they ought to be reviewed as a component of the