According to management scholar Karl Albrecht, scanning to acquire environmental intelligence should focus on:

a. Eight strategic radar screens.

b. Six management templates.

c. Eight process improvement models.

d. Six ethical decision indicators.

Respuesta :

Answer:

a. Eight strategic radar screens.

Explanation:

The eight strategic radar screens that enable management to scan their business environment. Following are the eight strategic radar screens:

1. Customer environment- what is happening to my current customers. Includes demographics as well as their social values or preferences. Graying of the baby-boom generation which allows some companies to create communities for older people.

2. Competitor environment- information on the number and strength of an organizations competitors, whether they are potential or actual allies, patterns of aggressive growth, versus static maintenance. Etc.

3. Economic Environment- information about costs, prices, international trade, and any other features of economic environment.

4. Technological Environment- includes the development of new technologies and their applications affecting the organization, its customers and other stakeholder groups.  

5. Social environment- includes cultural patterns, values, beliefs, trends, and conflicts among the people in the society in which the company conducts business.

6. Political environment- includes the structure, processes, and actions of all levels of government- local state, national, and international.

7. Legal environment- It includes patents, copyrights, trademarks, and considerations of intellectual property, as well as antitrust considerations, trade protectionism and organizational liability issues.

8. Geophysical environment- It is related to the awareness of the physical surroundings of the organizations facilities and operations.