Strategies to deal with financial costs:
Financial costs, purchasing equipment,
redundancy payouts, retraining, reorganising
plant layout inertia
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
ordering, storage, placing and
handling nof raw materials and
stock
TECHNOLOGY
improving flows, cutting costs, keeping records
OUTSOURCING
Hiring of an external third party to perform tasks
for a business
NEW PRODUCT AND DESIGN
New ideas and innovations, being tested and then
carried out to be put into place
Global Factors
Global Factors and Strategy. Businesses are
affected by an external environment as much as
they are affected by the competitors. Global
factors influencing business are legal, political,
social, technological and economic.
Understanding of these factors is important
while developing a business strategy.