4.What changes are happening in the environment of your particular industry?

How is your industry

changing? How has the Internet affected it? How will it cope up?

(-/5 Points)

The Internet has turned our existence upside down. It has revolutionized communications, to the extent
that it is now our preferred medium of everyday communication. In almost everything we do, we use
the Internet. Ordering a pizza, buying a television, sharing a moment with a friend, sending a picture
over instant messaging.

5.Do you believe your organization has recognized its individual weak points and issues in the midst of
revolutionary change? What is it doing about it?

(-/5 Points)

When the environments change, the organization must eventually respond, and today this must occur at
a rate and in ways never before seen or imagined. Organizations that are not able to adapt quickly
enough to maintain their legitimacy or the resources they need to survive either cease to exist or
become assimilated into other organizations.

6.What are your organization’s global opportunities and threats?

(-/5 Points)

Opportunities and threats are external—things that are going on outside your company, in the larger
market. You can take advantage of opportunities and protect against threats, but you can't change
them. Examples include competitors, prices of raw materials, and customer shopping trends

7.Once you enter the industry, do you know who your future competitors are and where they are
located?

(-/5 Points)

Knowing who your competitors are, and what they are offering, can help you to make your products,
services and marketing stand out. It will enable you to set your prices competitively and help you to
respond to rival marketing campaigns with your own initiatives. You can use this knowledge to create
marketing strategies that take advantage of your competitors' weaknesses, and improve your own
business performance
8.Does your current organization formally scan the environment at least every quarter to stay abreast of
the ongoing changes in technology, social values, telecommunications, etc.?

(-/5 Points)

Organizational change is pervasive today, as organizations struggle to adapt or face decline in the
volatile environments of a global economic and political world. The many potent forces in these
environments—competition, technological innovations, professionalism, and demographics, to name a
few—shape the process of organizational adaptation.As a result, organizations may shift focus, modify
goals, restructure roles and responsibilities, and develop new forms. Adaptive efforts such as these may
be said to fall under the general rubric of redesign.