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Answers need to present in the point form, include 100 to 200 words for each question. 1.Why is environmental scanning necessary? 2.Give an example how each of the macro-environment factors may directly drive the content and services provided by a website.

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1. Importance of environmental scanning
 Environmental scanning is gathering of information from internal plus external business
environment and monitoring environment to recognize business opportunities and
constraints.
 It is essential at macro level for understanding new business constraints like legal as well
as technical (Aldehayyat 2015).
 It is necessary to responsive for client’s requirements as well as actions of competitors.
 For development of business organization, it is necessary for developing business
strategies assist in operating business.
 It is useful for analyzing factors affect future of the business organization.
 Environmental scanning is necessary to conduct entire business analysis and lead to
resource utilization.
2. Example of how the macro-environment factors drive content and services
provided by website
Following are list of the macro environmental factors such as:
Social factors:
 The website owners are taking benefit of customer types using internet by advertising
services draw concentration of special users of the internet (Jasiulewicz-Kaczmarek,
Saniuk and Nowicki 2017).
Legal factors:

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 Boost content of website as well as internet services
 For example, the website owners are paying tax to run the business.
 There is strict taxation laws will strengthen image of website content as well as internet
services.
Economic factors:
 The project funding is possible from the sources of the government.
 This factor can affect when there is increase in demand of price of internet services.
Political factors:
 This factor can affect, distribute as well as market the internet services.
 It can influence and affect performance of the business organization (Wirtz and Daiser
2017).
Technological factors:
 Incorporation of personalization
 Tackling of the technological problems

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References
Aldehayyat, J.S., 2015. Environmental scanning in business organisations: Empirical evidence
from a Middle Eastern country context. Management Research Review, 38(5), pp.459-481.
Jasiulewicz-Kaczmarek, M., Saniuk, A. and Nowicki, T., 2017. The maintenance management in
the macro-ergonomics context. In Advances in Social & Occupational Ergonomics(pp. 35-46).
Springer, Cham.
Wirtz, B. and Daiser, P., 2017. Business model innovation: An integrative conceptual
framework. Journal of Business Models, 5(1).