Analysing the External Environment

This case study encourages participants to use the Five Forces framework to analyse potential threats in a fictional organisation’s competitive environment. Allow around an hour and fifteen minutes for completion.

This case study encourages participants to elicit problems and potential pitfalls in a situation when everything appears to be going well, and to consider how scenario planning might be used to avoid an unforeseen disaster occurring. Allow 45 minutes for completion.

An individual diagnostic helping senior managers to evaluate how effective they are at managing the future. Allow around an hour for completion.

Organisations must monitor and adapt to their external environment in order to seek opportunities and ward off threats on an ongoing basis. This diagnostic is, therefore, designed to help you assess what is happening in your industry or sector, and reflect on how these circumstances may affect your organisation.

This exercise is designed to help a senior team analyse the interests and influences of stakeholders before making a key decision. Allow an hour for completion.

The aim of this exercise is to consider the different types of expectations that are placed on an organisation by its stakeholders, and how these can affect the process of strategy formulation. Allow around 45 minutes for completion.

PESTLE analysis is a strategic tool that helps you to explore/anticipate external influences on your organisation from several perspectives. Here we provide guidance on how it can be used.