Business Organization and Environment

• The presentation discusses the relationship between business and the world, focusing on the organizational process.
• It outlines the agenda for the session, including a review of PODC (Planning, Organizing, Directing, Controlling), business plans, analysis of the internal and external environment (SWOT), macro-environment variables (PESTEL), and micro-environment actors(CFMIP).

PODC: Key Aspects

• Planning: involves setting objectives, identifying necessary resources, and determining actions to achieve success

  • Focuses on what to achieve and how to do it

• Organizing: involves structuring human, material, technological, and financial resources to meet objectives.

  • Focuses on defining tasks, assigning responsibilities, and coordinating efforts

• Directing: involves exercising leadership and managing teams to ensure planned actions are implemented effectively to include communication, motivation, and conflict management

• Controlling: involves measuring performance against fixed objectives

  • Adjustments are made to stay on course and meet goals

• Administrative cycle includes planning, organization, direction, control, tasks relationships, and motivation/leadership

Planning Stage

• Planning is thinking before acting involves defining the company's mission, studying the internal and external environment, and setting the company’s objectives and methods for achieving them

Organizing Stage

• Involves determining relationships between individuals and structuring the company
  • Considers organizational culture, individual tasks and hierarchy

Directing Stage

• Encompasses the forms of power like authority, reward or coercion, knowledge, and charisma.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

• Motivations drive people to act or behave in ways that satisfy a need
• Pyramid from base to peak: Physiological Needs, Safety Needs, Belongingness Needs, Esteem Needs, and Self-actualization Needs

Leadership Styles

• Leadership is influencing naturally or through development.
• Leaders inspire by example, participation, assistance, conveying motivation and energy to employees

Controlling Stage

• Control involves verifying actions yield expected benefits, comparing forecasts to identify variances, analyzing causes, and implementing corrective measures to fix discrepancies

Business Plan

• A business plan is a strategic document outlines objectives, necessary actions, required funding, and financial forecasts

Business Plan Key Components

• Title page
• Executive summary
• Company overview includes mission, vision, and social responsibilities
• Business analysis includes SWOT and PESTEL analyses
• Management information includes partners
• Marketing, Operations, HR, and Financial plans,

Internal and External Analysis (SWOT)

• SWOT analysis evaluates a company's health and position before new strategies or sales
• Addresses key factors in business decisions at both strategic and succession planning for heirs
• Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats

External Environment (Macro and Micro)

• External environment includes all factors outside the company that can directly or indirectly positively or negatively influence company activities
• Components include macro-environment variables and micro-environment actors
• Micro environment
  • Suppliers
  • Distributors
  • Competitors
  • Customers

Macro-Environment Variables (PESTEL)

• PESTEL is a tool to analyze the impact of the macro-economic environment positive or negative impact on a company
• Variables allow companies to anticipate and prepare to adapt to threats or opportunities includes Political, Economic, Socio-cultural, Technological, Ecological, and Legal factors

PESTEL: Detailed Variables

• Political Factors: Governments that impose rules on organizations at federal, provincial, and municipal levels
• Economic Factors: Impact the ability of consumers to pay for goods/services and evaluate the economic situation of a country, region, or city
• Socio-cultural Factors: Relate to behaviors and attitudes of people and societal evolution; affect generations and should be considered by companies
• Technological Factors: Impact demand (risk of substitution), company competitiveness, and new modes of manufacturing
• Ecological Factors: environmental physical factors relate to factors climatic and environmental
• Legal Factors: Laws and regulations that can influence a business, like labor laws, product safety laws, and environmental standards

Micro-Environment Actors (CFMIP)

• CFMIP refers to the immediate stakeholders that can affect organization
• Company acts within the environment of actors which can affect the development and strategies
• Competition is direct and indirect
• Suppliers, market, intermediaries, and other related stakeholders

Key Micro-Environment Actors Include: Clients, Competitors, Suppliers, and Intermediaries

• Clients: Are central, expressing needs and expectations that companies must identify and meet, Market is main point

• Competitors: New entrants represent threats which affect decisions and for developing is essential to know competitor’s offers, strengths and weaknesses

• Suppliers: Influence the quality and competitiveness of a company’s offerings

• Commercial Intermediaries: Actions may be necessary for the company's activity like communication but have direct positive or negative effects

Explore the relationship between business and the world, focusing on the organizational process. Review PODC (Planning, Organizing, Directing, Controlling). Analyze the internal and external environments using SWOT, PESTEL, and CFMIP frameworks.