{"id":165,"date":"2017-07-26T18:23:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T18:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=165"},"modified":"2017-08-14T21:37:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T21:37:04","slug":"introduction-to-common-frameworks-for-evaluating-the-business-environment","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/chapter\/introduction-to-common-frameworks-for-evaluating-the-business-environment\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Common Frameworks for Evaluating the Business Environment","rendered":"Introduction to Common Frameworks for Evaluating the Business Environment"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: describe common frameworks used to evaluate the business environment<\/h2>\r\nTo set goals, businesses analyze what\u2019s going on in the external environment as well as what\u2019s happening inside the organization. Frameworks for completing the external analysis help managers process large amounts of data in a rational way. Two widely used management tools are introduced in this section that explain why sound business strategy relies on finding the best possible information.","rendered":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: describe common frameworks used to evaluate the business environment<\/h2>\n<p>To set goals, businesses analyze what\u2019s going on in the external environment as well as what\u2019s happening inside the organization. Frameworks for completing the external analysis help managers process large amounts of data in a rational way. Two widely used management tools are introduced in this section that explain why sound business strategy relies on finding the best possible information.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-165\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Frameworks for Evaluating the Business Environment. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: John\/Lynn Bruton and Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":21046,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Frameworks for Evaluating the Business Environment\",\"author\":\"John\/Lynn Bruton and Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"11a6072c-a318-44d4-930b-1d66ace2af04","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-165","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":43,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/165\/revisions\/1421"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/43"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/165\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}