INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS - extensive review of all the aspects of a company's operations, internal guidance, and mission - aspects reviewed: marketing strategy, production capacity, vision initiative - covers the climate culture equipment work and workplace members and mngt mngt practice - set of elements that define the atmosphere within the company's structure • CORPORATE CULTURE - beliefs and behavior that determines how a company 's employees and mngt interact and the way how they handle outside business transactions - CULTURE- an actual pattern of shared values and assumptions about how things are done within an organization - TOP-DOWN- difficult to achieve and only happens with strong leadership; sensitive topic with big corporations has different deps and large employee base - CENTRALIZED CORPORATE CULTURE- often seen from large corporations which encompasses the intercompany as a whole yet with different cultures based on each deps - whole cultural value-built - traditions and practices deeply engraved deeply in the operation of the company - govern sentiments, thoughts and behavior of all members - an important element of the core foundation of every company - influenced by national cultures, economic trends, traditions, International trade, company size, and products • ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE - a way to coordinate tasks, control relationships, and motivate team members for them to cooperate in achieving the organization's goals - Organizational structure also helps your company to specify how responsibilities and roles are assigned to each individual in an organization. It also determines how people communicate with each other and how information flows between staff and managers - the company needs to have effective relationships and a strong organizational structure to motivate team members to be effective and productive so it creates a system that promotes creativity and unity between different deps - what maintains hierarchy, facilitates communications, and keeps the company running smoothly -the type of organizational structure used to help determine the organizational behavior within the company and its organizational structure that has a huge impact on how the company is know for -must be designed for highly effective performance -takes into consideration all the constraints involved with the organizational structure -CENTRALIZED STRUCTURE - commu starts from the top-down mnggt while in DECENTRALIZED STRUCTUREdecision-making power is distributed among various levels • BUSINESS RESOURCES - it is essential for every business to manage its resources effectively and efficiently - real-time visibility into their ppl and business resources to ensure overall success - prevent risk reducing overall costs, boosting productivity, improving efficiency, and allow easy reach to success - proper resource mngt - single info must reach all the ppl from top to bottom to do their tasks efficiently - having to direct what ppl can do effectively to utilize limited resources External scanning is not enough to provide with a competitive advantage ANALYZING CORPORATE CULTURE - One of the best ways to assessa corporate is to determine the present state of the individual or employee, the group or functional unit, and the entirely company. The analysis of the internal audit will be supported by findings from personal interviews and survey questionnaires. The objective of the analysis is to determine how corporate culture affects the formulation and adoption of proposed strategies. The range of issues and concerns to be assessed andand evaluatedry from business to business. - retain values, it is important to promote teamwork that requires creating a ... - analyze current corporate culture for it is helps u to take steps to shape the direction of the future - lack of awareness on the alignment with the prospective customers could be a major roadblock to attaining outcomes that both parties desire - fail because vision ideas are not translated to daily practice - due to a lack of focus, organizations become overly involved in training and improvement activities yet perceived great impact of them - a mission statement that lay out your core values for interactin with customers, suppliers and industry ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE - how approaches operating - proposed changes in the organization to improve performance - FUNCTIONS had a high level of control over what work employees carried out and how they performed the works - structures along functional geographic or product lines have low coordination with employees because managers focused on their own area of responsibility BUSINESS MODELS-framework on how a company will create value. Capture fundamental assumptions and decisions about the opportunity in one place setting the direction to succe