Organizations Category

A. Definition: process of acquiring information for decision making.
B. Surveillance:
1. Definition: watch over an interest.
2. Gives decision maker a general awareness.
3. Requires relatively low time involvement.
4. Keeping top management aware of what is going on.
C. Search
1. Definition: locating a particular piece of information needed to solve a particular problem.
2. Requires high time commitment.
3. Is problem oriented?

D. Three types of scanning models:
1. Irregular: ad hoc study triggered by [...]

A. Large organizations affect their environments both consciously and unconsciously.
B. The organization selects its environment by choosing the products and/or services it will provide.

C. Organizations attempt to reduce uncertainty by influencing their environments in several ways:
1. Lobbyists: seek to influence legislation.
2. Vertical integration: ensure demand or supply by expanding business toward the source or toward the customer.
3. Long-term contracts: ensure supply [...]

In this section, there are two parts that useful in every organizations. In next posts, I’ll describe it more. So… Join to this and leave your comment to discussion!
A.    The multiple environments of multi divisional firms may make it impossible to state exactly what the business of the firm is.
B.    Even the environments of companies [...]

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