Strategic Analysis of the Business Environment

Strategic Analysis of the Business Environment

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Identify environmental factors that do or can influence organizational performance today and in future

Strategic Analysis of the Business Environment – Holistic Intelligence

Environmental Analysis Defined

Environmental analysis is the study of the organizational environment to pinpoint environmental factors that can significantly influence organizational operations.

The Value of Environmental Analysis

Environmental analysis will help you understand what is happening both inside and outside your organization and to increase the probability that the organizational strategies you develop will appropriately reflect your organizational environment.

Business Environment

Industry Analysis – Holistic Thinking and Predictive Intelligence

Growth Ecosystem

3 Levels of Organizational Environment

In order to perform an environmental analysis, you must thoroughly understand how organizational environments are structured.

For purposes of environmental analysis, you can divide the environment of your organization into three distinct levels: internal environment, operating environment, and general environment.

"Tactics is knowing what to do when there's something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there's nothing to do."
~ Savielly Tartakover

AI enhances Holistic Intelligence

Holistic intelligence is the ability to perceive systems as interconnected living organisms. In business, this means understanding how markets, technologies, people, incentives, and constraints interact. Artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a "holistic amplifier," expanding the strategist's field of vision.

Predictive Intelligence (PI)

5 What-Next Q&A

Example of 5WNs

Holistic Thinking

KoRe Models