Pest Analysis

The chart identifies the total MIPS consumed by various business products during the execution of the batch job for the selective set of policies.

The use of PEST analysis can be seen effective for business such as their strategic planning, marketing, and product development. Furthermore, PEST ensures that company`s performance is aligned positively with the powerful forces of change that are affecting business environment (Porter, 1985). PEST have four factors which are Political, Economic, Social, and Technological. However, we use these factors to check how they interplay to the business or the activity of an organization.Using PEST analysis is important when a company decided to enter its business operation into new markets and new countries. In this case, using PEST will help to adapt effectively to the realities of the new environment and to make contingency plans for threats by preparing business and strategic plans (Byars, 1991; Cooper, 2000).

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PEST is an acronym used for companies with in the political, economic, social and technological views. PEST allows companies to view and observe certain areas that might have been overlooked. The company I will be discussing the PEST analysis is Target. Target is a large scale company and is constantly changing in the industry. The political views of Target is that they must have an unbreakable bond with China due to majority of its products coming from that country. They must be aware and stray away from any conflicts because it can create a negative affect in the operation of Target. Also the company is altered by taxation, tariffs, cost, and trade restrictions especially when they're trying to broden outside the United States. The economic

"The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from your point of view as a customer, you want everything: a wide assortment of good-quality merchandise; the lowest possible prices; guaranteed satisfaction with what you buy; friendly, knowledgeable service; convenient hours; free parking; a pleasant shopping experience."

Methods of analysis used in this report include PEST analysis which analyses the external factors

Sony Corporation is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronic product. It engaged in business through electronics, motion pictures, music and financial services. Though it used to be a leading manufacturer, Sony Corp has now been entangled with low sales rate and financial strain in many of its product lines (Euromonitor, 2014). This paper demonstrates three events of Sony Corporation as a case study to analyze how these external factors affect companies’ decision making, then discuss how has international business environment changed from these three events and finally the conclusions are presented.

The spotted wing Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) is an attacking pest of berries crops. Unlike most other Drosophila, this insect can oviposit into ripe and ripening berries, so that they make them unmarketable. D. suzukii is spreading quickly throughout the continental US and they give a serious damage in horticultural areas and the fruit industry. Spotted wing drosophila (SWD) puts its eggs in both commercial fruit and wild fruits, so it is of great concern to fruit and vegetable growers. It became a pest of economic significance, but it is important point that requires early detection, monitoring and moderation to control it. Last researches show that D. suzukii infests a number of wild plant species and also those may be harvested commercially like cranberry. Gray dogwood (Cornus racemose Lam.), Tatarian honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica Linneaus), Mulberry (Morus alba L.), Nanking cherry (Prunus tomentosa L.), Common chokecherry (Prunus virginiana L.), Common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica R. Davurica), Elderberry (Sambucus Canadensis L.), White snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus L.), Yew (Taxus

The PEST analysis helps to explain the critical factors in the organization's external environment. The factors include political, economic, social and technological. For Myer, these forces combine with the internal factors, and other external factors like competition. The Australian consumer goods retail market is worth $121 billion (IBISWorld, 2012) but is heavily fragmented. Myer is the third-largest company in the industry behind David Jones and Harvey Norman, but with $3.158 billion in sales holds just 2.6% market share (Myer 2011 Annual Report). This implies that competition is only one of many factors that can contribute to the company's results. This PEST analysis will help to identify the other major factors.

The Economy in New Zealand is highly dependant on internationally imported goods. New Zealand mainly imports its good from Australia, China and USA. Goods that are mainly imported are vehicles and petroleum, which in this case is one of the major goods that are cargoed into New Zealand (Aapa-ports.org, 2014). This business report has been put together to analyse the ports industry, specifically the seaport industry to check if investing in this industry will be a good choice. The report will briefly look at the Port Of Auckland Limited (POAL) to help with the decision, information such as annual report (POAL), as well as the seaport industry of New Zealand to help backup the information supplied, the tools that will be used to analyse the industry are PEST analysis and the Porters five forces of competition

Singapore government has always been in favour of the tourism sector. In fact, Singapore Tourism Board (STB) launched a $90million BOOST (building on opportunities to strengthen tourism) for the tourism sector). The initiative help pushed the industry through tough times by assisting MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions, Exhibition) companies to alleviate their business costs (Singapore Tourism Board, 2009).

Forest has many advantages to human life and the earth as the lungs of the world. In the economic field, the forestry sector contributes significantly to the national income accounts. The high price of timber in international market leds to timber exploitation in the early 90 's [S. Syarif, et.al, 2012]. It encourages illegal logging actifity, which causes adverse effects especially on the economy and ecology fields. In the economic field, the state revenues declined due to the loss of timber tax and the chance to produce the high quality products of timber also decreased. In addition, the nature inbalance causes climate change, declining soil productivity, soil erosion and flooding, habitat destruction, and loss of biodiversity. To solve the problems, the illegal logging detection system is urgently needed. In this research, image processing and Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) are applied for the detection. Nowadays,

There are tremendous advantages of using bio-control compared to chemicals (insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides). These include consumer/occupational safety good, no crop withholding after use, good environmental safety, high specificity, low cost of development and low potential of resistance. In other hand, chemical methods causes’ health concerns, crop withholding period after use, restriction in export, broad spectrum toxicity to non-target beneficial organism, high potential of resistance and also accumulation in food chain. Chemical method is also costly with long development time due to registration requirements.

The SBW is one of the most destructive insect defoliators in North America with outbreaks recurring every 30-35 years resulting in tree mortality after 5-6 years of severe defoliation. The Minèstere des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs (MFFP) (2014) suggests that two main factors can help to determine if the forest presents a case of SBW infestation due to the susceptibility of trees and its vulnerability depending on the characteristics of the tree (e.g. shape, size, color, species, and age) as this living organism is a great threat to the forest due to the severity of damage caused by these elements and more important, a great quantity of trees could die causing loss of revenues (Ministère des Forêts, 2015). The more susceptible trees

There are many living creatures which damages the vegetation and they are fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes and parasitic flowers. Some of the plant disease brought about very serious influences of the society. A fungal sickness phytopthora overdue blight that purpose the iris potato famine, which made 2 million people both starved or left their land. The devastation of French wine enterprise by way of the fungal disorder powdery mold and downy mold till the prevention Bordeaux mixture found to govern the disorder the fungal disorder chestnut blight could be very dangerous and remains as a hassle in the United States. It infects and kills the elm trees.