Scanning the Environment: Seven Procedural Steps

  1. Keep tabs on broad trends
  2. Determine relevence of a trend
  3. Study the impact
  4. Forecast the direction
  5. Analyze the momentum
  6. Study opportunities
  7. Relate the trends to strategy
     

 

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