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Economic Forces,
Social, Cultural,
Demographic,
And Environmental
Forces.
Political, Legal,
And Govt Forces
Technological
Forces
Competitive Forces
Competitors
Suppliers
Distributors
Creditors
Customers
Employees
Communities
Managers
Stockholders
Labor Unions
Governments
Trade Assoc
Products, Service
Market
Natural Enviro.
Spec Interest Group
Organizations
Opportunities
And
Threats
Economic Forces
Economic Factors have direct impact on the
potential attractiveness of various strategies.
Availability of credit, level of disposable
income, Interest rate, inflation, Economies
of scale, GDP, Unemployment, Govt
Budget Defisit, Consumption pattern, Stock
market trends, etc.
Population
Childbearing rates
Number of Marriage
Number of divorce
Pollution Control
Average level of Education
Energy Conservation
Etc (see page 112)
Technological Forces
Technological advances dramatically can affect
organization products, services, market, suppliers,
distributors, competitors, customers, marketing
practices, and competitive positions.
Technological advances can affect products life
cycle.
Technological advances affect the process of
production.
Competitive Forces
What are the major competitors strengths?
What are the major competitors
weaknesses?
What are the major competitors objective
and strategies
Etc
(please see page 118)
Potential Development of
Substitute Products
Competitive pressure arising from substitute
products increase as the relative price of
substitute product declines and as
consumers switching cost decrease.
Listing
Weighing
Rating
Multiplying
Sum weighed score
Listing
List key external factors as identified in the
process of external-audit factor.
Include a total of 10 to 20 factors, including
both opportunities and threats affecting the
firm and its industry.
Be as specific as possible using %, ratios,
comparative numbers
Weighing
Assign 0.0 for not important and 1.0 for
very important factors.
The sum of all weights assigned to the
factors must equal to 1.0
Rating
Assign a 1 to 4 rating to each critical success
factor to indicate how effectively the firms
current strategies respond to the factor.
4 = superior response; 3 = above average
response; 2 = average response; 1 = poor response.
Ratings are base on effectiveness of the firms
strategies.
Rating = company based; weighing = industry
weight.
EFE MATRIX