Implementation of SWOT Analysis at Apple Presented By: Chanda Snyder Marketing November 18, 2012 Introduction The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis guides you to identify the positives and negatives inside and outside of your organization. Program directors, policy groups and management teams can use this resource to help with both strategic planning and decision-making. A SWOT analysis will provide perspective, and reveal connections and areas for
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…………………………………………………………. 17 Learning outcome 1 UNDERSTAND THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAFFECTING AN ORGANIZATION. 1.1: Explain the importance of External factors affecting the organizations. Ans: Environment produces change in organization. An organization may become victim of change or it may be gainer of change. The external environments are those factors that occur outside of the company that cause change inside organizations and are, for the most
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PEST Analysis A scan of the external macro-environment in which the firm operates can be expressed in terms of the following factors: * Political * Economic * Social * Technological The acronym PEST (or sometimes rearranged as "STEP") is used to describe a framework for the analysis of these macroenvironmental factors. A PEST analysis fits into an overall environmental scan as shown in the following diagram: Environmental Scan | / | \ | External Analysis
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2 Theory and Analysis 2 Conclusion 8 Introduction To establish strategy is an indispensible part of any organisation. It plays an important role in directing and helping organisation to achieve the objectives. In this context, the strategy is considered as the way which organisations communicate with the competitive landscape to obtain the above average return. Therefore, to build an effective strategy, there is a need for profoundly understanding the competitive environment and estimating
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business ¡ Attract and please customers ¡ Compete successfully ¡ Conduct operations ¡ Achieve target levels of organizational performance What is Strategy? ¡ Large-scale, future-oriented plan ¡ Used to interact within competitive environment to achieve company goals ¡ Provides a framework for managerial decisions ¡ Reflects a
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expansion purposes. Additionally, this report will consider the following information; environmental scanning of the current conditions in the selected country of expansion, it’s economic and competitive environments, and it’s political stability. Moreover, this report will also address internal resource analysis as it relates to financial and managerial strengths and weaknesses. Also, long-term and short-term strategic goals will be listed. Finally, the benefits and limitations of expansion into a foreign
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Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs)”. Complacency drew less attention to the structural and design issues that were clearly present. While the levee boards were responsible for maintenance and operation of the levees, they operating in an environment where they believed the USACE had created sound levee structures when placed in their
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likely ask. Generally, a business plan has the following components: A. Title page and contents B. Executive summary C. Business description D. Business environment analysis E. SWOT analysis F. Description of the product or service G. Market analysis H. Marketing plan I. Competitive analysis J. Operations and management K. Financial components L. Supporting documents – attachments and milestones Typical addressed questions by the business plan:
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OF VALUES 3 6. ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS 4 6.1. ANALYSIS OF THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT 4 6.2. ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT 4 7. STRATEGIES 5 7.1. GENERIC COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES 5 7.2. BUSINESS STRATEGY 6 7.3. FUNCTIONAL STRATEGIES 6 7.3.1. Procurement Strategy 6 7.3.2. Online Marketing Strategy 7 7.4. IMPORTANCE OF IMPLEMENTATION, EXECUTION AND EVALUATION OF THE DERIVED STRATEGIES 7 8. CONCLUSION 8 9. RECOMMENDATIONS 9 10. REFERENCES 10 11. APPENDIX A: PEST ANALYSIS FOR COMFORT CARE
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2. 2a. General Environment Analysis: |GENERAL ENVIRONMENT FORCES |OPPORTUNITIES |THREATS | |Socio-demo-cultural |Young techno-savvy generation | | |Technological |Need sophisticated IT for utilities and power |Rapid change of technological environment | |
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