Dec 08, 2015
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Course Description
This course is designed to discuss the description, analysis and synthesis of environmental factors that affect the performance of business organizations. These factors are presented in a strategic framework to facilitate responses to the complexity and dynamism in an organization’s environment. The interrelationships among environmental factors, industry forces, and business are highlighted in an effort to provide students with broad perspective forces, and business are highlighted in an effort to provide students with broad perspective and sharp vision to the future. Students will be trained to identify and analyze key environmental factors, anticipate trends and directions of those factors, understand the complex and continuously changing interrelationships among them, and identify business opportunities and threats brought by the environmental change.
This course will explore the following environmental factors:
• Economic
• Demography
• Social-Cultural• Social-Cultural
• Political (domestic and international)
• Technological (information/communication and processing)
• Natural
• Governmental
The legal and ethical factors are, of course, very important subsets of business environment, and are discussed in separate courses.
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Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:
1. Describe and explain the basic conceptual themes and ideas of the interaction of business and its environment.interaction of business and its environment.
2. Identify relevant and important environmental factors interacting with a business organization, analyze the patterns and trends of those factors and the interactions, and translate those patterns and trends in terms of opportunities and threats to the organization.
3. Analyze how the environmental factors affects business decisions, and understand some of the business implications of changes in the environment.
4. Develop and formulate better business strategy.4. Develop and formulate better business strategy.
The course aims at preparing students to have broader perspective, to be more visionary and more environment conscious, and to have better managerial judgment and wisdom.
Method of Instruction and Course Materials
The learning format will be a combination of lecture, interactive discussions and case study assignments to provide student with relevant issues. Each session will consist of a discussion of the reading assignments, as well as interactive will consist of a discussion of the reading assignments, as well as interactive discussion of real business world situations, and case studies.
Course materials include a class binder containing weekly reading assignments and case studies for each topic of the 13 class sessions (see detailed course outline). Students are encouraged to search supplemental reading materials in each topic.
The course if of multidisciplinary nature, and accordingly students and lecturers
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The course if of multidisciplinary nature, and accordingly students and lecturers are expected to be broad-minded and have future orientation. Every topic will be discussed from the visionary perspective of the CEO.
Course OutlineThis course is topical in nature, and each topic will be delivered by an expert in the field.
Session Topics
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Class Requirements Attendance and Participation. Students are expected to have 100% of attendance on a regular
basis, faithfully complete all assignments and readings on the dates assigned, and actively participate in class activities and discussions. Active class participation is essential to do well in the class. Class participation grades will be determined on the basis of your contributions to class discussion (especially case discussion). class discussion (especially case discussion).
Written Case Reports. Each student is required to submit a case report (limited to 5 (five) pages of written text, not counting appendix items, charts, etc.) for each topic. In total, you have to submit 13 (thirteen) case reports. The purpose of this assignment is to let you learn and develop some in-depth expertise on each specialized topic in the business environment.
Research Paper. Each student will have to complete a written research report on the analysis of environmental factors affecting a business organization. You need to select a particular industry, and then focus your analyses on the impact of each environmental factors on the industry and the firm. The writing style should strictly follow standards set by the Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business. Students are seriously warned plagiarism and other forms of academic
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Journal of Business. Students are seriously warned plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty, and therefore should pay serious attention to proper referencing. It is a good idea to have a one page executive summary at the beginning of the paper. The basis for evaluating the written report will be quality of content (quality of research and analysis, meaningful content and timely information), clarity of expression (including well designed tables and charts) and organization (all parts of the paper should fit together). The first draft of the paper is due for presentation on session 15. During the presentation, critiques and inputs from other class members and the lecturer should be utilized to improve the paper. The final report is due 3 (three) weeks after the last class session.
Grading Scheme
The grade for this course will consist of the following elements:
13 case reports (each 5 points) 65 points 13 case reports (each 5 points) 65 points
1 Individual research paper 20 points
Individual class participation 15 points
Total 100 points
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The Key Environments of Indonesian Business
The requirement today is that managers throughout an organization be continuously
committed to understanding and adapting to environmental developments that can affect
strategies and operations.
The Firm
Demography
Social and Cultural
Economic DevelopmentInternationalPolitical
DomesticPolitical
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Monetary and Fiscal Policies
Information and ProcessingTechnologiesNatural
EnvironmentRegionalEconomy
Governmental
Industry and Sectoral Policies
Scanning the External Business Environment:Trends and Implications
Analysis of External EnvironmentEconomic, Sociocultural, Technological, Political, etc
Analysis of External EnvironmentEconomic, Sociocultural, Technological, Political, etc Tasks of Managers:
•Identify a number of
Industryanalysis
Market (customer)analysis
Supplier
CompetitorAnalysis
Interest group
•Identify a number of likely trends emerging in the external environment
•Assess the probability of these trends
•Assess the likely impact of each of these trends on the
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Analysis of strategic factors• Opportunities• Threats
Analysis of strategic factors• Opportunities• Threats
GovernmentalAnalysis
Other stakeholderanalysis
SupplierAnalysis
Interest groupAnalysis
these trends on the industry and the firm being examined
Basic Model of Strategy Formulation
Strategic Vision
Analysis of Environmental Factors: Analysis of internal resources and Analysis of Environmental Factors: Trends, events, directions and ideals
Business: Opportunities and Threats
Key Success Factors
Analysis of internal resources and capabilities
Strengths and Weaknesses of the firm
Distinctive Competence
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Key Success Factors Distinctive Competence
Creation of Strategy Evaluation and Strategic planschoice of strategy
Managerial values Social responsibility
Environmental Forces are Driving Dramatic Changes
Environmental Forces
Environmental Forces
CharacteristicsCharacteristics
EconomicEconomic
Hypercompetitive markets
Blurring of industry
Hypercompetitive markets
Blurring of industry Impact
Economic
Socio-cultural
Political
Natural
Economic
Socio-cultural
Political
Natural
Blurring of industry
boundaries
Extreme emphasis on
customer values
New rules of the game
Global and competence-
based competition
New competitive
requirements: strategic
Blurring of industry
boundaries
Extreme emphasis on
customer values
New rules of the game
Global and competence-
based competition
New competitive
requirements: strategic
New CompetitiveLandscape
Visionary/FuturisticView
Impact
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Keydeterminants
Technological
Governmental
Demographics
Technological
Governmental
Demographics
requirements: strategic
flexibility and continuous
learning
Changing career dynamics
and employee
expectations
requirements: strategic
flexibility and continuous
learning
Changing career dynamics
and employee
expectations
DrivingForces
BasicStrategic
Issues
Economic Environment
Structure and Changes inEconomic Conditions
Structure and Changes inEconomic Conditions
Economic Development
Regional Economy
Monetary and Fiscal Policies
Industry and Sectoral Policies
Industry Cost Structure and Finance and Economic
Impact on
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Industry and Trade
Cost Structure and Finance and Investment
Economic Welfare
Business Opportunities and ThreatsBusiness Opportunities and Threats
Demographic Environment
Demographic ProfileDemographic Profile
Structure and Changes inDemographic Variables
Structure and Changes inDemographic Variables
ByAge
ByGender
ByEthnicity
ByIncome
ByOccupation
ByEducation
ByRegion
Impact on
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Cost structure
Supply and demand for goods and services
Work PlaceWork Force
Impact on
Business Opportunities and ThreatsBusiness Opportunities and Threats
Social-Cultural Environment
Basic local valuesand traditions
Social and cultural factors and institutions
Global interactions and modernization
Social and cultural changes
Individual and group/collective beliefs, values, perceptions,
attitudes, opinions, and
Structure and patterns of social and cultural interactions and
conditions
Workplace and patterns of work and leisure, career dynamics and employee
Impacts on
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attitudes, opinions, and lifestyles
conditions dynamics and employee expectations and composition
Business Opportunities and Threats
Domestic Political Environment
Structure of, and changes in political forces and activities in Indonesia
Relations among executive, Relations among executive, Relations among political Relations among political Political systems and Political systems and Relations among executive, legislative, and yudicative
bodies
Relations among executive, legislative, and yudicative
bodies
Relations among political groups
Relations among political groups
Political systems and institutions
Political systems and institutions
Roles and Power exercised: Direction and stability of political factors
Impacts on
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Relation between government and
private enterprise
Relation between government and
private enterprise
Legal and regulatory parameters
Legal and regulatory parameters
National planningNational planning
Roles ofbusinessRoles ofbusiness
Business Opportunities and Threats
Impacts on
International Political Environment
Structure and Shifts in World Politics and Geopolitics
Political allies based on:• Ideology• Economic interest• Former colony ties• Stage of industrial
developments• Geographical location• Other
Changing relationship between:
• Communist and non communist
countries
• Prosperous and poor countries
(North and South)
• East and West countries
Changing roles of global
businesses and other world
economic institutions
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Indonesian politics
Indonesian economy
Business opportunities and threats
Impact on
Technological Environment
Technological Revolution: Trends, Advancement and
Development
Technological Revolution: Trends, Advancement and
Development
Areas CharacteristicsAreas
• Information and communication • Processing• Biotechnology• Medicine• Robotics• Metal• Other
Characteristics
• Increasing rate of technological change and diffusion
• Increasing knowledge intensity (knowledge-based business)
• E-business• Emergence of positive feedback industries• Increased mastery of energy, its
conservation, and more efficient use
Strategicissues
Impacts on(as examples)
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Product Developments and innovation
Process improvement
Manufacturing facilities automation
Improvements in marketing techniques
New market development
Changes in the nature of competition
Business opportunities and threats
Natural Environment
BusinessBusiness The EcologyThe Ecology
Pollution:
Reciprocal relationship
Pollution:• Air• Water• Land• Cross-media
Increasing cost of pollution control
Regulatory demands
Public demands for environmental protection
Customer demand for clean processes and products
Competitive requirement
International trade agreement
New technologies for pollution control protection and products agreement for pollution prevention
EnvironmentalManagement
System
The greeningof management
Business opportunities and threats
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Governmental Environment
Structure andBehavior of Government
• Laws• Regulations and Deregulations• Pressures• Leadership• Roles• Political agenda
• Regional autonomy• Relations between central and local
government• Privatization of state-owned
enterprises
• The nature and scope of
CurrentIssues
Impacts on
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• The nature and scope of government relations with
business• Rules of the game
Business opportunities and threats