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Strategic Management:
Concepts and Cases
Arab World Edition
Fred R. David
Abbas J. Ali
Abdulrahman Y. Al-Aali
Chapter 3:
The External Assessment
• Technological Forces
• Industry Forces
• Global Challenge
Source: Adapted from Fred R. David, “How Companies Define Their Mission” Long Range Planning 22,
no. 3 (June 1988): 40
• Environmental Scanning
• Industry Analysis
• Population shifts
• Aging society
• Fear of traveling
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•Economic •Political
•Social •Governmental
•Cultural •Legal
•Demographic •Technological
•Environmenta •Industry
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• Internet
• Libraries
• Suppliers
• Distributors
• Salespersons
• Customers
• Competitors
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Key Factors:
• Market share
• World economies
• Foreign affiliates
• Price competitiveness
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• Interest rates
• Pollution abatement
• Technological advancements
• Population shifts
• Interest rates
• Pollution abatement
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Long-term Orientation
Measurable
External
Factors Applicable to
Competing Firms
Hierarchical
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Industry Properties
Economies of Scale
Product Differentiation
Level of Competitiveness
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• Antitrust legislation
• Tax rates
• Lobbying efforts
• Patent laws
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• E-commerce
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• Internet
• Communications
• Electronics
• Aeronautics
• Pharmaceutical
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• What are the key factors for our current position in the
industry?
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• Customers
• Creditors
• Suppliers
• Labor market
• Competitors
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• Strategy formulation
• Strategy implementation
• Strategy evaluation
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• E-commerce
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Important
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Important
Just because one firm receives a 3.2 rating and another
receives a 2.8 rating, it does not follow that the first firm is
20 percent better than the second.
Competitive Intelligence
External Audit
(CI)
Industry/Organizational
Learning from Partner
(I/O)