2024 – 1 Effectively changing strategies is often one of the most difficult tasks

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?