Industry and Environmental Analysis: Flashcards

1
Q

A large-scale business
operation and may experiment
in farming, processing and
manufacturing and or the
packaging and distribution of
products.

A

agribusiness

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2
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Process of converting raw materials, components, or parts into finished goods that meet a customer’s expectation or specification

A

manufacturing

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3
Q

The process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through
multiple channels of distribution to earn profit.

A

retail and services

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4
Q

Is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders
or territories, which could involve the activities of the government and
individual.

A

international trade

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5
Q

The careful study of various factors influencing the business.

The process by which organization monitor their relevant environment to identify opportunities
and threats affecting the business.

A

environment analysis

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6
Q

It means to understand the various environment factors which affect the business and to identify published or unpublished sources of information which affects business.

A

monitoring

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7
Q

-Even when the sources required information exists. These may not be readily available.

A

searching and scanning

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8
Q

Estimation of direction and intensity of change in
environment factors.

A

forecasting

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9
Q

Answer to the key issue
presented by the environment and their impact on business.

A

evaluation and assessment

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10
Q

is based on opinion and views of top executives

A

executive opinion method

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11
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Business forecast is based on the opinion of outside experts,

A

expert opinion method

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12
Q

Used to consolidate the different expert opinions so
as to reach a common estimate.

A

delphi method

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13
Q

Forecasting is based on
certain indicators affecting business unit.

A

economic indicator analysis method

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14
Q

Past events will have their impact on future.

A

past project method

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15
Q

Are more scientific and estimates made through
these methods are more reliable.

A

statistics method

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16
Q

Is a popular method of forecasting when it is
possible to make precise forecast of future.

A

scenario development method

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17
Q

Used to generate new, innovative and unique ideas and forecast.

A

brainstorming

18
Q

what are the internal factors?

A

price, place, promotion, and product

19
Q

refers to the agricultural products and services industry involved in growing, processing, and distributing food.

A

agribusiness

20
Q

What are the 4 F’s?

A

food
fiber
forest
fuel

21
Q

What are the sectors of agribusiness?

A

agricultural input sector
agricultural production sector
manufacturing sector

22
Q

This type of manufacturing is
commonly referred to as 3D
printing.

A

additive manufacturing

23
Q

This method involves new
forms of technology to
improve the production
process.

A

advanced manufacturing

24
Q

manufacturing industry.
Companies will enter into
partnerships and business
relationships with other firms
to outsource certain
manufacturing processes.

A

contract manufacturing

25
Q

is aptly named because
each product manufactured can be specifically
identified.

A

discrete manufacturing

26
Q

This is often the case
for goods manufactured using batch process before
these standardized goods are converted to more
specific individual package.

A

mixed mode manufacturing

27
Q

entails manufacturing a product based on a specific standard that uses a recipe or
formula

A

process manufacturing

28
Q

This process is most often
used when there is a batch to process yet the batch is
different than a company’s normal product.

A

job shop manufacturing

29
Q

A potential subset of
other manufacturing processes, repetitive manufacturing often breaks long manufacturing
processes into smaller parts.

A

repetitive manufacturing

30
Q

involves selling goods directly to customers through physical/online stores and
providing them with a variety of products needed to
consume in daily life.

A

retail industry

31
Q

“retail is selling goods in units to sustain consumers’ needs”

A

Kotler

32
Q

Products sold by retailers include apparel, jewelry, housewares, small appliances,
electronics, groceries, and
pharmaceutical products.

A

product retail

33
Q

Sells motorbike shop, salons, restaurant

A

service retail

34
Q

retailing without using physical
stores (ex. vending machine, direct selling,
e-marketing)

A

non-store retailing

35
Q

refer to intangible offerings
provided to meet specific needs or requirements.

A

service industry

36
Q

what are the kinds of trading?

A

export trade
import trade
entrepot trade

37
Q

when goods manufactured in a specific country are purchased by the residents of another
country.

A

export trade

38
Q

where goods or services are brought into one country from another, where they were
originally manufactured or created.

A

import trade

39
Q

where goods are imported into a country and then re-exported out, without being distributed
within the importing country.

A

entrepot trade

40
Q

It is a process to identify all the
external and internal elements, which can affect
the organization’s performance.

A

environmental analysis

41
Q

what are the TOOLS USED IN ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS?

A

pest analysis
swot analysis
porter’s five forces