1. Effectively changing strategies is often one of the most difficult tasks of
management. Why do you think this is the case?
2. How does the articulation of strategic intent affect the strategic planning and
management process? Could organizations be just as effective without clear
statements of strategic intent?
3. What key environmental changes do you think will increasingly force managers
to be proficient at conducting environmental analyses?
4. Are there industries that will be more immune to changes in the global
environment d as a consequence will be influenced primarily by their domestic
external environment? Name at least two and explain why.
5. What are the most difficult environmental analysis skills to develop? What are
some possible means of ensuring that you have these valuable skills?
6. Debate the following statement: Computers and news media have made
international environment analysis simpler.
7. Pick a country and go to the library or the Internet to find some information about
its resources, government, political and legal systems, and physical
infrastructure. What type of business would do well in that country? Why?
