Zusammenfassung der Ressource
6a External
Changes
- Impacts on Organisations
- O- Restructuring can
lead to savings in
cost, long term
- O- Transport links,
products supplied and
delivered faster
- Impact on Individuals
- X- Being made redundant
- X- Have to use savings
- X- Poorer quality of life
- X- New training may be stressful
- O- Get up-skilled so can seek more
professional jobs with high pay
- X- New tech put pressure on
people to get latest model
- X- May really HATE the change e.g. Window 10
- Impact on Systems
- O- Better efficiency
- X- May not have capacity
for new system
- X- Need to buy better
hardware/ software
- X- Old system may need more
maintenance and be slow
- e.g. having to change a hard-coded
VAT after a VAT change
- Changes which an organisation
has no control over
- Examples
- Changed taxes/ tax bands
- Interest rates
- Actions of competitors
- O - Competitor's new product
may pressure business to
promote more or develop a
better product
- X- May be expensive,
need change in working
practice or maufacturing
- Demographic change
- Cultural trend changes
- New laws
- O- Data protection act meant systems
had to be updated with better security
- Development in
manufacturing / IT
- X- Competitors will be able to
produce things faster and cheaper
- O- Increase productivity
- X- Redundancies
- Exchange rates
- Economic change
- X- Recession reduced demand meaning
less income and redundancies in business
- O- Cheaper companies earn more
- Natural disaster
- New bugs/ viruses
- e.g. Mellenium bug meant
switching computers from 2 to
4 digits