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Title
Conduct an environmental analysis for an organisation
Level
6
Credits
10
Purpose
People credited with this standard are able to conduct an
environmental analysis for an organisation.
Classification
Business Environment > Business Culture and Environment
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
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Definitions
Organisation refers to a specific business entity which may be – for profit or non-profit;
in private, public, or voluntary sectors; a business unit, iwi, or other special purpose
body.
External environmental information refers to aspects of the technological, commercial,
economic, financial, political, regulatory, socio-cultural and physical environments, and
also includes product and service markets (export and domestic).
Internal environmental information refers to the capabilities and limitations of the
organisation, and includes but is not limited to human, physical, technological and
financial capabilities and limitations.
Stakeholders refers to individuals and groups that have interest in the organisation
and/or its products or services. Stakeholders may include but are not limited to –
customers, suppliers, owners, shareholders, lenders, managers, employees, employee
organisations, local community, competitors, and regulatory bodies.
2
This unit standard will be assessed against on the basis of evidence of demonstrated
performance in the workplace or in simulated situations that demand performance
equivalent to that required in work.
This unit standard is
expiring
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Conduct an environmental analysis for an organisation.
Range
analysis – internal, external.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Quantitative and qualitative environmental information is gathered from reliable
and authoritative sources.
Range
at least three sources for each of internal and external
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environmental information, with justification of choice and
judgement of reliability, authority, and limitations for use.
1.2
Information is analysed in collaboration with stakeholders in terms of its
relevance to the organisation’s core or future business.
1.3
Information is analysed in terms of its actual and potential impact on the
organisation, by testing major variables, working assumptions, and probabilities.
Range
1.4
evidence of use of at least one qualitative and one quantitative tool
which may include but are not limited to – statistical inference,
decision trees, flow charting, mapping, regression models, time
series.
Analysis and supporting information are presented in a form that aids decisionmaking, and in a timely manner.
Replacement information
This unit standard, unit standard 23915, unit standard
23916, and unit standard 23917 have been replaced by
unit standard 27762 and unit standard 27763.
This unit standard replaced unit standard 7444.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
Review
Rollover
1
26
November standard
2007
31 December
This
unit
is2015
2
20 September 2012
31 December 2015
3
16 July
2015
31 December 2018
expiring
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0113
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
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Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is
expiring
NZQA Business and Management
SSB Code 130301
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016