Enterprise Environmental Factors and Impact Analysis for PROJ6001

This report provides an analysis of enterprise environmental factors (EEF) within the context of a project management scenario, focusing on the University of Western Australia Library. It examines various EEFs, including cultural, political, economic, technological, and legal factors, and their potential impact on project outcomes. The report also introduces two key tools for impact analysis: SWOT and PESTEL analysis, detailing how each can be applied to assess the influence of these factors. Furthermore, the report justifies the significance of using SWOT and PESTEL analyses, highlighting their strengths and limitations in identifying project opportunities and addressing internal issues such as workforce skills. The analysis covers the implications of antitrust and anti-discrimination laws, trade reforms, and the importance of managing intellectual property within the project environment. References to relevant academic sources are included to support the analysis.

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Table of Contents
Enterprise environmental factors of the project.........................................................................2
Tool to identify the impact of EEF............................................................................................3
Justification................................................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................4

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Enterprise environmental factors of the project
The enterprise environmental factors (EEF) of the project are discussed as followings:
 Cultural: The cultural factors of this project revolves around the leadership abilities
of the project manager, who will be playing a key role in this project. Changes in the
external environment of the library are also one of the most significant cultural
factor related to this project.
 Political: The political factors which might play a key role in this project are the
trade reforms in the educational institutions. The other political factors of this
project are level of corruption from the higher authorities of Western Australia
Library, protection of the intellectual properties of the business and labelling of
the services which will be managed using the new project management system.
 Economic: The economic factors in this project are infrastructure quality of the
library, exchange rate and stability of the library and the skills of the workers of the
library who will be working with the project management system once the software is
developed.
 Technological: The technological factors of this project are the use of the recent
technologies, impact of the use of project management system on the stakeholders
of this business, and the rate of technological diffusion.
 Legal: The legal factors of this project includes the three major antitrust laws of
Australia such as Federal Trade Commission Act (Kennedy, 2017). The other legal
factors include the anti-discrimination laws such as Racial Discrimination Act 1975
(Gageler, 2017). Along with that the Intellectual property law of Australia and
Privacy Act 1988 are the other legal factors related to this project (Witzleb, 2017).

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Tool to identify the impact of EEF
SWOT analysis tool and PESTEL analysis tool are the two types of tools which can
be very much useful to identify the impact of the EEF of this project. The influence of the
EEF of this project such as the anti-trust laws, anti-discrimination laws, trade reforms can be
analysed using the SWOT Analysis. Whereas the impact of the internal environmental factors
such as leadership abilities of the project manager, corruption and the skillset of the
workforces can be evaluated using the PESTEL Analysis.
Justification
SWOT analysis is very much significant to maximise the opportunities of this project;
the limitations of this project can be reversed based on the evaluation of this tool (Demuth et
al., 2016). The core competency of the project management systems can be identified using
this tool as well. However, there are few limitations relayed to this tools as well as it can
identify one issue at a time and prioritization of the issues is not possible using this tool (Li et
al., 2018).
PESTEL analysis can be very much useful in this project as it can address most of the
internal issues such as the lack of skilled workforces required to work with the project
management system (Gürel & Tat, 2017). Lack of clarity and judging the internal factors on
the basis of forecasts is the drawbacks of this impact analysis tool.

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References
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Gageler, S. (2017). Chapter IV: The Inter-State Commission and the Regulation of Trade and
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Gürel, E., & Tat, M. (2017). SWOT analysis: a theoretical review. Journal of International
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Kennedy, D. (2017). Damages for injury to feelings against the commonwealth: Breaches of
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Li, M., Tian, A., Li, S., & Qi, X. (2018). Evaluating the quality of enterprise environmental
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Witzleb, N. (2017). ‘Personal Information’under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)-Privacy
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