Business Environment Analysis: Tesla Motors and NHS

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THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
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Table of Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................................... 3
Company 1.......................................................................................................................3
Company 2.......................................................................................................................5
Comparison......................................................................................................................6
Stakeholders.................................................................................................................... 6
Reference list................................................................................................................. 10
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Introduction
Business environment consists of several important factors and ventures analyze
those elements and factors to better prepare themselves to sustain in the business
environment (Hamilton and Webster, 2018). There are several types of business
organizations public sector enterprises, private sector enterprises and social enterprise
sector.
Public sector is considered as the part of the economy composed of both public
enterprises and public services. Public sectors are aimed at providing public services to
enhance the condition of society (Bouckaert et al., 2016). In public services, it includes
services such as public education, treatment, health benefits, infrastructure and others
for betterment of the community. IN UK, NHS is one of the best examples of public
sectors. Private sectors firms are aimed at generating higher amounts of business
profits through meeting needs and demands of the customers. In private sector, sole
trading, partnership, private limited are included (Kunze and Miller, 2017). Bestway
group, Iceland Ltd is the best examples of private sector firms. Social enterprise sector
is completely different from other types. This type of enterprises is aimed at improving
the social condition without caring of profit generation. Access Health Care, ARC,
Allied Health Professionals Suffolk CIC and others are the perfect examples of social
enterprise sector.
Company 1
“Tesla Motors” is one the of the most popular private firms across the globe that has
shocked the entire world through their excellent electric vehicle technology. The CEO of
the company is Elon Musk (Tesla.com, 2019). Company knows importance of clarity in
vision and mission so they have set perfect vision and mission that are as follows:
Mission
The company has a strong mission for their accelerating their growth and prosperity in
business. The mission of the specified organization is “to accelerate the transition of the
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world to sustainable transport”. In simple words, the company has aimed to transfer the
entire modern transportation system into sustainable transportation system.
Vision
The vision of the company is “Creating the most competitive car manufacturing
organization of the 21st century by driving the world’s transition to electric vehicles”
(Tesla.com, 2019).
Goals
The company has the goal of changing the entire modern transportation system with
sustainable energy vehicles. The company has decided to become the most competitive
car manufacturing company of 21st century.
SWOT
Strengths
 The company has high-tech
advanced technology that other
companies do not.
 The CEO of the organization has
great leading and motivating
capabilities that can boost
productivity.
 The idea of sustainable energy
transportation is completely new.
 Company has excellent engineering
team.
Weaknesses
 One of the major weaknesses is
that the idea is completely new so
that it has higher chances to fail as
well.
 Due to multiple high-tech and
complex technologies, customers
might find issue to use, especially in
beginning.
Opportunities
 The company has the opportunity of
capturing the entire car market
industry.
 The innovation capabilities of
Threats
 The main threats of the specified
organization are GM, BMW, Audi
and others.
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ventures,
Table 1: SWOT analysis of Tesla Motors
(Source: Created by learner)
Company 2
NHS is one of the most public sector companies that are aimed at improving the social
condition through their products and range of services (nhs.uk, 2019). Apart from this,
the excellent mission and vision of the company has influences the firm to achieve their
set goals more effectively.
Mission
The mission of the firm is “to provide quality of care to every person every day”. The
mission clearly defines to their staffs that they have devoted their lives for betterment of
societal health condition.
Vision
The vision of NHS is also attractive and appreciable. The vision of the organization is “to
deliver better health, better care and better value” (nhs.uk, 2019).
Goals
The key goals of NHS are as follows:
 Providing care services to patients and improving their health conditions
 Community development
 Improving the health conditions of people
SWOT
Strengths
 The company is aimed at improving
social condition so that people and
business environment will support
Weaknesses
 The company has complex
structure that can confuse others.
 The organization has not adopted
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their business operations.
 The organization is well established
and famous for its high quality
health services.
advanced technologies yet.
Opportunities
 The organization has the
opportunity of capturing the entire
UK region so that they can serve
more numbers of patients.
 Clear business strategy of NHS
influences their organisational
performance as well.
Threats
 Threats are rivals that create high
competition in market. Nuffield
Health, Fitnuts and others are the
top rivals of NHS.
Table 2: SWOT analysis of NHS
(Source: Created by learner)
Comparison
Both of the organizations are from different sectors; Tesla Motors is from private sector
organizations, where NHS is public sector firm. However, both organizations have
strengths and opportunities as well as threats in market and multiple weaknesses.
However, as NHS has more growth opportunities and scope in market compared to any
other private organizations. However, the innovation capabilities of Tesla Motors are
quite appreciable that will assist the company to gain competitive advantage in market
for greater sustainability.
Stakeholders
Stakeholder is considered as an individual or a group or company that is impacted by
the result of a project (Lawrence and Weber, 2014).
They are part of business and they have the ability of influencing a project in positive or
negative aspects.
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Tesla Motors have several stakeholders such as communities, customers, employees,
investors or shareholders and government.
Stakeholder analysis map for Tesla Motors is as follows:
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Keep Completely
informed
Government
Regular minimal contact
Employees
Manage most thoroughly
Customers
Anticipate and meet
needs
Customers and investors
Interest
power
of
stakeho
lders
Interest of Stakeholders

Keep Completely
informed
Government and
donators
Regular minimal
contact
Patients and staffs
Anticipate and
meet needs
Patients and
investors
Manage most
thoroughly
Patients and
communities
Interest
power of
stakeholde
rs
Stakeholder analysis map for NHS
In NHS, there are several stakeholders such as patients, government, staffs and others.
Stakeholder analysis map for NHS
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Interest of Stakeholders

In the stakeholders mapping of Tesla Motors, there is four important quadrants for
identifying different stakeholders according to their contributions. Being one of the
reputed health care firm, the company consider patients as their key stakeholders.
Additionally, the government and angel investors are also regarded as important
stakeholders of the organization.
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Reference list
Bouckaert, G., Peters, B.G. and Verhoest, K., 2016. Coordination of public sector
organizations. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hamilton, L. and Webster, P., 2018. The international business environment. Oxford
University Press.
Kunze, A. and Miller, A.R., 2017. Women helping women? Evidence from private sector
data on workplace hierarchies. Review of Economics and Statistics, 99(5), pp.769-775.
Lawrence, A.T. and Weber, J., 2014. Business and society: Stakeholders, ethics, public
policy. Tata McGraw-Hill Education.
nhs.uk 2019. Home. [online] nhs.uk. Available at: https://www.nhs.uk/ [Accessed 16
May 2019].
Tesla.com. 2019. Electric Cars, Solar Panels & Clean Energy Storage | Tesla. [online]
Available at: https://www.tesla.com/ [Accessed 16 May 2019].
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