October 13, 2025 • 50 mins
Understanding and performing a PESTLE analysis can help businesses set strategies and perform financial and risk analysis. This framework enables you to review and address various societal circumstances that affect business operations. Remaining informed about the various PESTLE factors can ensure your business stays competitive and survives. The acronym stands for Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal, and Environmental factors. Surviving these influences with strategic plans
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hello, I'm Angela Sharp, and welcome to a Sharp Outlook. Today.
We're going to be talking about something called pestal the
pestal influence, and what we're going to be talking about
is how it can possibly affect your business. Understanding and
performing a pestal analysis can help business set strategies and
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perform financial and risk analysis. This framework enables you to
review and address various society circumstances that affect businesses operations.
Remain informed about the various pestal factors that can ensure
your business stays competitive and you're able to weather the
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storm of external threats. Most of the time it's large
corporations that do the pestal analysis and because they are
the ones that are the most impacted by macroeconomic events.
But don't just assume that they are the only ones
that are going to be affected. There can be a
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lot of people that are affected by pestle. A pestal
analysis is a strategic framework used to evaluate the external
macro environmental factors that can impact a business. The acronym
for pestal is political, economic, sociological, technological, legal, and environment factors.
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That's what pestal stands for. And let me explain just
briefly how the what each one of those categories could
potentially affect you. Let's start with p political. These factors
relate to how government policy and political stability or instability
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can affect an organization. They include tax polities, labor laws,
trade restrictions, tear roofs, and political climate shifts. Just think
every time that there's a new party that's in place,
it could end up becoming an economic threat for your business,
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just based on new laws that are created and how
far does that political threat or situation go. It can
go worldwide, It can affect tribal and local and state governments, derivatives, legislation, regulations, requirements,
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market regulations, trade agreements, and as I mentioned before, tariffs
and restrictions and tax codes. All of those can have
an impact on your business. And the pestal analysis that
you will do will to see if you have a
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risk based on some of the changes in that political environment.
The e of pestel economic these encompasses the broad economic
conditions that influence a company and consumer behavior. Key factors
include economic growth or decline, interest rates, inflation, exchange rates,
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unemployment rates, and consumer disposable income. If people are being
laid off or being fired and the number of people
that are working, there is going to be a decrease
indisposable income for those individuals. And in they're in your
community and they shop at your stores, it's the potential
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that you're going to have a decline in the number
of consumers coming in and purchasing your products. So economic
can actually really have and major impact on you. And
how far does that economic threat go national? It can
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be global. Factors such as interest rates can affect your home,
can affect your loans, It can affect your credit. It
can affect your ability to purchase new products to expand
your business. Fiscal policies, recession and growth factors. Competitiveness of
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developing countries can affect your business because now there's another
place or another area that your normal customers would be
purchasing products from you. They now have another resource cheaper
products and cheaper labor. We know that we did go
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through a time period where a lot of the manufacturing
was of short because the products were cheaper, the labor
was cheaper, and it was all about the bottom line,
and those things affect small to medium businesses. You're trying
to be competitive, you're trying to sell your products, and
then you have the large corporations who are able to
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get cheaper products and cheaper labor because of these particular
economic factors that are there. Social or socio cultural, this
category examines the social and cultural aspects of the market
and population. It covers demographics, age, gender, ethnicity, cultural trends,
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population growth rates, health consciousness, and shifts in consumer buying
patterns and how far does that go. Societal attitudes. Attitudes
can change, it can change just from too much negative news,
too much negative rhetoric on social media. It can change attitudes,
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It can change mindsets, It can change their spending thoughts
or patterns or behaviors. It can generate lifestyle changes, changes
in populations, behavior distributions, demographics, and the impact of different
mixes of cultures impacts. Also so social things that are
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out there. They can have a major impact on your
particular business, just depending on what community is located in,
who your customers are, what your customers are doing, or
what their political ideas are, their economic situation, is their
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cultural or moral behaviors that things that they have heard
or things that they have seen can absolutely change their minds.
Especially in these days, competition has a way of instead
of improving their product and improving their advertising or improving
their reach, they go so far as to write negative
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articles about their competition. That's not considered fairness, but it
is something that can impact your business. How do your
competitors handle changes in the economic arena when the number
of consumers are reducing or declining because of economic issues.
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I rest assure you you should check on what your
competitors are doing and their advertising out on social media.
Different things like that to make sure they are not
saying things that are negative about your particular business to
attract more business to their establishment. Technological we all know
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about technological I started when we were still punching cards,
and now we have computers in a phone and then
we look up AI is here and it's here to stay,
and so all of these technological changes. These factors relate
to the effect of innovations on a business and his industry.
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They include new technologies, automation, research and development, and a
consumer's access to technology. Sometimes you can lose consumers because
you're doing everything online, and believe it or not, here
in this country, we have areas of the country who
don't have Wi Fi, who are not connected to the web,
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who don't have the ability to connect at a reasonable price,
and so you're never going to be able to reach
those consumers. Or the technology changes and they can't keep
up with the equipment or the computer technology or the devices.
Those kind of things can have an impact on the
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way that you are marketing your products, the way you
are selling your products. A lot of people their stores
are online, a lot of people shop, but technology can
have an effect on that and how far major current
and emerging technology is really important. And as we know,
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AI is on the scene now and it's just going
to continue to evolve and do more than what it
does now. But it does do a lot. But just
imagine when you have AI robots that are now able
to go out and pick vegetables and identify which ones
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are ripe and which ones are not. That's some well,
that's a pretty good technology, but it also is going
to eliminate those that go out and work on the farms.
So it's going to affect more than just your business,
but it's going to affect even those that are consumers
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that technology. It could be technology infrastructure something like I
was mentioned before. We don't have all of the technology
infrastructure in place so that citizens here in this particular
country can reach all of the technological vehicles that are
out there to make their life more easier or make
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things more comfortable, or utilize the latest softwares or the
latest systems that are out there. And then of course
we do have merging countries who don't have a lot
of that. So if you're having some of your products
that are sold globally, technology can impact how those consumers
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can continue to purchase from you or receive their goods
or whatever, you know, those things that can possibly interrupt
their business. So these are some major factors. Another factor
is legal. The component involves the laws and regulations that
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government business operations. Legal factors include health and safety requirements,
equity opportunities laws, consumer protection laws, intellectual property rights. All
of these things can be very important and can affect
your business just depending on what your business is. Like
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I said, then, intellectual property rights, that is really big
going on right now because of all of the new
technology that is growing and expanding and everyone's fighting for position,
and so intellectual property rights are very important. If you
are a creator and you are developing some new system,
some new idea, some new technology that's out there, and
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you're wanting to make sure that it is protected, you
need to know what those laws are and what your
rights are when someone infringes on that particular situation. In
other words, it's about being informed. Something I say every week.
Stay informed, and you want to be informed. Not only
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stay informed, but get informed because it's really important that
you do this. And legal problems can be as far
as globally, wars, earthquakes, weather, climate, global and national proposals
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that can affect your business, agreements that are made between countries.
A lot of different things can affect you. Past legislation.
Knowing what by the way your tax dollars are paying
these congressional people, you ought to stay informed as to
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what they're doing and if they're actually working on your behalf.
It should not be allowing someone that you are paying
to make legislative changes or write laws that impact you
that takes your finances away, that it takes your healthcare away,
that takes your property rights away, all of these different things.
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Go to the city council meetings. Go to the meetings
that they have in your particular location of your business
and locate of your home. Stay inform. You're a citizen
of this country. Your voice matters. But when you stay
home silent and then they make laws that negatively impact you,
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were you there, you should be there. Make your voice heard,
make your thoughts known. Let them know that it's going
to impact your personal income, it's going to impact your home,
is going to impact your health. Be sure you stay
involved and pay attention not to the silly stuff that's
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going on, but important stuff like what laws are they
talking about passing and will it impact me. Don't let
anyone tell you something that you need to research on
your own. You need to research all laws that are
passed that are impacting you personally and especially impacting your business,
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your organization, your company, your partnership, your foundation. Know what
the new laws are that are going to impact your business,
because once they're passed, it may take another election or
even longer before those negative impacts are removed, if ever removed.
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So pay attention to the laws that are being passed.
Don't let them do the Oki dook and point fingers
at each other. Look and in fact, technology that Little
AI bought you can go in there and type in
what that law is. It will summarize it for you
so you can see and find out exactly what's going on.
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And then you go down there and let your voice
be heard. The last framework is environmental. Environmental things impact businesses.
We have so many storms and floods and different things
that are happening right now. The environment is very important.
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There's certain considerations you should be looking at locally, nationally,
and even globally. Local, national, and international environments impact all
of us. If you end up with storms or floods
or things in areas where goods are being produced that
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we need to buy, foods are being destroyed. That's going
to impact guess what, The price is going to be
much higher at the grocery store. So it does impact you.
It impacts all of your goods and services that are
going to be coming into your business that you're going
to resale to your customer. Now you have to deal
with higher prices because they had major flooding in an
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area where you probably get your products. So environmental impacts
have a strong impact upon your particular business, especially your
supply chain. If you can't get your goods, you can't
sell to your customers. So all of those things are
very important to be reviewing when you are doing a
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pestal analysis. This is not just something to hear from
me or to just kind of read and shrug your shoulders.
You need to do a thorough, thorough, thorough investigation and
research as to how it might affect you. Let's talk
about the benefits of a pestal analysis. It drives the
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strategic thinking. It provides a comprehensive overview of the wide
business environment and encourages leaders to think strategically. One of
the things that you should be doing when you are
thinking strategically, when you're trying to do a pestel. Please
don't do it by yourself. Bring in different voices, bring
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in different members of your organization, bring in consultants, whatever,
someone that it might be knowledgeable, and sit down and
pull it all apart. Open the curtain, open the doors,
look at seeing what's really really going on and what's
going to be impacted. It's important to do that before
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you look up and you're struggling to keep your business
open because you didn't realize one of these factors was
getting ready to impact your business in such a negative way,
you're now struggling to stay open. So it's important to
do that. Another benefit it identifies opportunities and threats. Sometimes
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the threats can be something good that you can take
advantage of, and it makes an opportunity. It opens up
things that you had never thought about before. You know,
proactively spot a potential opportunity, anticipate future business threats and
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allowing for risk mitigation. Now, if you're in a business,
if you're a manager in a business, or this is
your own company, your own organization, you're head of a nonprofit,
you're going to want to know about the risk factors,
and they're genuinely doing risk analysis about different things. You know,
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the federal government has you know, decided not to fund
specific programs. Now you realize you have to go and
find other resources, and so that kind of analysis is
being done. We're understanding that we have all of these
threats out here of people hacking and stealing you know,
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your customer's financial information and personal information, and all of
these hacking and spam and different things, and trying to
do ransomware and shut down businesses and making them pay
millions of dollars to get their systems back up. Those
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are threats, and being aware of all of those threats,
you generally have services or systems in place or policies
in place to protect yourself. But then when you start
talking about a pestle, these are threats that you can't control.
The only thing you can do is mitigate the impact
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by seeing how it affects you and making some strategic
plans to change that. Another benefit, it'll support decision making.
It provides contextual information that leads to more informed and
decisive actions, such as when to enter a new market
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or launch a new product. Because if these environmental changes
or political changes, or legal changes or technological changes are
going to have an impact. You're going to definitely want
to know before you launch something new that's going to
potentially pull a lot from your organization, pull a lot
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from your financial bottom line and your financial growth, and
see exactly maybe you need to delay that for a
little while until some of this threat settles down, some
of the impact is resolved, some of the things go away.
You're going to want to definitely know that you need
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to think strategically about that, not just oh, because I've
already bought these banners and i already set the date,
we're going to do it. Anyway, think about it. If
it's not going to have a positive impact on your
business and help your business to grow and expand your business,
it may be a time to sit back and and
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let's just cruise through all of this environmental and legal
and political and technological all of these things. Just cruise
through until things kind of stabilize, and then you'll have
a much better positive impact when you launch that new product.
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It also aids organizational change. When you look and you
do your pestal analysis, you're going to recognize external shifts
that might require changes in business processes or a pivot
in overall strategy. You're going to recognize where you do
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have some weaknesses that you need to sure up with
process changes. Maybe it is time when you look at it,
maybe it is time to get a more efficient software system.
I do software implementations also, and I've been a chief
financial officer and director of finance, VP of finance, and
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I've had to look at all of these things over
the years at different organizations. When you're looking at technology
and how fast it's growing, you need to really look
and see how is your company going to keep up
with the technological changes and how it's going to impact
your business. And most of the time, when new technology
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is brought into the arena and you are thinking about
bringing that into your organization, you know, I'll just tell
you upfront you're going to have process changes because that's
the purpose. It makes the processes more efficient, it makes
information flow faster, it makes information relatable throughout the whole
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organization instead of one department at a time, and so
you'll get an overall look at what's going on in
your organization. When you have new technology in your organization,
it will make things more efficient, it'll give you more details,
it'll give you key indicators. If you make at one
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of your analysis that you want done in a report,
it'll in fact do all of your analysis now. So
you have to look at that and see, Okay, I'm
going to have to change some processes because right now
we're not working as efficiently as you should as well.
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Benefits are good, but let's talk about the limitations of
a pastal analysis. It can be time consuming, yeah, but
sometimes time consuming things that happen they really end up
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saving your lives. So it may take some time doing
the research and analysis across you know, all six areas,
because you can't just do one area because they're generally interconnected.
So as you're doing this analysis in all six areas,
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it can require significant time and resources, especially if you're
in a fast paced industry, but it will benefit to you.
We talked about the benefits. You're going to have information
in your hands to help you make the right decisions
and a time where you don't have any control over
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what's going on externally, so you do want to do
you do want to look at it, but it is
limited because if you're not going to take the time,
you're not going to get the benefits. Like I said,
it can have opportunities that are there, but you're not
going to see the opportunities because you're not taking time
to invest to gate what it is and then see
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how it impacts your organization and see if you can
turn it into something positive and turn it into an opportunity.
Subjectivity of interpretation. This is why I'm recommending that you
have more than one person working on this particular analysis.
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It's qualitative data, and different individuals will bring varying interpretations
of the same information, which could lead to inconsistent results.
But when you're sitting there working together and you're talking
about the results, it helps you to see it from
different angles, different ideas, different perspectives. Sometimes it requires you
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to bring someone else in to look at that information,
to look at that data with a new set of
eyes and see if things are as good and rosy
as you might think it is because you're looking at
it maybe a little biased. It also has as a
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static snapshot like a balance sheet, is static, it represents
a specific moment in time. The findings can quickly become
outdated due to the dynamics of the macro environment. Issues
that are happening. So it's not something that's gonna you
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look at it and now you look back at it
a year later. It's something that is currently that currently
you need to be addressing. Currently, you need to be
looking at currently, you need to be monitoring. And then
also as you're currently looking at that, you also need
to think about the fact that these factors are going
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to change. The environment is changing daily, you know, I've
never seen so many floods, you know, going on in
some of the most unique areas, and the earthquakes that
are happening in the tsunamis that are happening, and then
the weather, just the downpours of rain and the fires.
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We have some unpredictable environmental issues that are happening. Not
to mention, our oceans have been dying and in the
life in the oceans. I have a guess that's going
to be coming soon to discuss about our oceans. But
all of these are factors that could impact you, and
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you need to understand that when you're taking this analysis,
you're doing this analysis on your organization based on the pestle.
It's changing rapidly changing, and can you get yourself situated
that you can go in and now now apply the
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changes that have been made since the last analysis that
you did and see if it changes your strategic plans
that you're putting together. One other downside to it, it
excludes internal factors. Now, some weeks back, I did less
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on the SWAT your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, the
internal ones that you can control. The pestle framework focuses
exclusively on external factors and does not consider organizations internal
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strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, it is most effective when used
with other tools such as a SWAT. If you've done
your SWAT, then it will make it easier for you
to do your pestal analysis because you know what your
strengths and your weaknesses and opportunities and threats are. How
are they being impacted now with these external factors that
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you have no control over except to mitigate the impact
by making some process changes, making some purchasing changes, making
you know, some protections and insurance purchases, whatever is necessary
to be able to help your company to stand through
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this storm that's happening from these external factors. It is
something that it has to be taken, you know, pretty
seriously as to what is going on your organization and
what is happening outside. These factors are important. These things
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can really change your lives. Like I mentioned, pestle is political, economics, social, technological, legal,
and environmental, and all of those things can really have
an impact on you. Like I said, especially a technological
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we all know that it is really moving very quickly.
And the current and emerging technologies and infrastructure and ability
to react quickly to change in operations, to meet demand,
an ability to remain competitive. Your competitors are able to
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probably have a higher market share because of their processes,
because of the technology, because of the speed of information
that they're able to get, and they can react a
lot faster because they do have that technology in place.
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The legal, like I said, it's global right now. We
have quite a bit of legal things that are happening.
We've got the tariffs that are going on that are
impacting companies. Manufacturing, like I said, was offshore. We're trying
to bring it back, but the parts are now because
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of the tariffs overpriced. It's affecting and impacting jobs. How
are you going to end up, you know, managing that.
How are you going to be able to come up
with other ideas to be able to offset the impact
on your organization. It's something to think about, it's something
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to realize you need to work on, you really need
to look at, you really need to think about. As
I was sitting down thinking about this conversation, thinking about
what would be a good example and one of the
good examples that I can think of what a pestle
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will look like. For I picked up Nike, and so
I'm looking at Nike and seeing their Pestel analysis and
for the political factor, how did Nike handle political factors?
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Access to favorable government policies looking at the government policies
and seeing which ones are favorable that are going to
expand your business, help your business, pro political stability, regional
tax policies, looking at the tax policies that are changing
in your particular region, in your particular industry in your
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particular area. And limited trade restrictions, looking at the tradects
restrictions and knowing that, HM, I may have to look
at some other sources to get my product manufactured or
get my supplies so I can manufacture my products or
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the other products that you're not actually manufacturing, but they
are part of the product that you are selling, looking
at other opportunities or where you can get that because
of the regional or limited trade restrictions and things like
that that could impact the economic factor. Target the middle
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and high income earning populations with better purchasing power. This
is how Nike looks at his customer base. They're looking
at okay, based on my prices have gone up, I'm
going to be looking at my advertising and focusing my
advertising on the middle and higher income populations because they
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have better purchasing power. I'm not going to be you know,
spending advertising dollars or doing things in an area where
that population cannot purchase my product. The social factors, Nike
is gonna really listen to have their ear to the
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ground and they're listening, and they're listening to health conscious populations,
develop social campaigns to attract the younger generation. We know
our younger generation loves their I still call them tennis shoes.
They love their They don't even call them sneakers either.
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Lets you nowhere how old I am. But they're trying
to because they've they've had a customer base. But every
twenty years, you've got a new generation that's coming into
a point where they are going to have disposable income,
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and so you need to be able to track that
younger generation, and you need to do it with different
advertising than what you did when I was starting out
or some of you other listeners. They're going to change
the advertising, they're going to change their focus. They're going
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to be pushing towards more of the younger generation. They're
going to be the commercials that they do are going
to have either even younger people than before because of
the fact they're trying to pull in a whole population
that hasn't been buying their particular shoe, and then also
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making sure they have their brand shoes for the most
popular player out there and advertising and having those players
being their commercials so that the youth that are following
that particular athlete is going to buy their shoe. And
so they're always looking at these things. The technological factor
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you know, Nikes, they're you know, going to be installing
the most efficient machinery in their factor factory, modern technology
to improve efficient manufacturing, modern technology, to improve research and development,
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research and development of new products that might be needed
in those particular shoes that they are putting together. They
do more than shoes. They do jackets they do you know,
sweats and things like that, So doing you know, making
sure that the products that they're bringing in are meeting
what the new fat fat is for the younger generation.
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And then even looking at materials, where are materials coming from.
Maybe they're with the floods and the changes in the
environmental and there's been a lot of storms, different things
like that, crops have been destroyed and things. Looking at
where else they can get supplies so that they're still
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able to get their materials to do the manufacturing of
their goods. So finding all of those things. So they're
looking at those particular things in the legal factor, strict
adherence to safety rules and regulations, and strict guidelines on
enforcing copyright regulations on imitation companies. A lot of people
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go out there and they'll try to get one of
the shoes, and they'll go out and they'll try to
do design something very similar and just to compete with Nike.
It's kind of hard to compete with them because they
are really good at what they do. But it doesn't
mean you're not going to have knockoffs out there trying
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to compete with them to sell the shoe and steal
Nike's customers, so knowing the laws and they're going to
be enforcing those laws and looking at what laws have
been put in place so that they can protect you know,
their trademark and protect their product and protect you know,
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from having knockoffs being done with their products and things
like that. And then environmental factors, researching and use of
sustainable raw materials, planning and conducting environmental awareness. So even
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in their commercials, even in the things that they design
and things that they do, just going out there and
making sure that they are they in their advertising they
talk about, you know, some of the economic issues, they
talk about some of the issues that like the oceans
or different things like that, bringing up, you know, things
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that are showed that they're an organization that is, you know,
conscious minded of the environment, because that can be a
really big thing. You don't want to get some environmentalists
upset with your company because you're dumping waste or things
like that, because they're going to be in front of
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your organization. They're going to be out there picketing, they're
going to be out there making noise, They're going to
be out there letting people know that you don't care
about the environment. You're dumping waste or you're polluting the
waters or different things like that. So all of that
is very important, and so those are things also that
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you can do internally. Make some changes in how your
advertisements are designed and things like that, so that it
appears that you are environmentally conscious and that you are
looking out for the consumers and nature and things like that.
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There are a lot of people that are very concerned
about those things, and we rightfully sow and companies can
be more environmentally conscious. And if not, like I said,
you're going to have people standing in front of your
establishment with picket signs, and of course then they're going
to attract the attention of news organizations and then it's
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going to end up being on social media and it
can affect your reputation. And your reputation is one of
the strongest assets that you can have, and so you
want to make sure that you protect your reputation and
you're not allowing you know, different things like someone being
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upset about the product that you're producing, or you know,
some kind of negative news and things like that. So
just staying informed about what's going on, Like I said,
the law changes that are going on the political environment
that's out there, consumer goods, you know, not being some
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of these tariffs and some of these agreements that have
been signed with other nations. They've been there in place
for years and years and years, and suddenly now they're
not in place anymore. So it's affecting our businesses, it's
affecting organizations, it's affecting the supply chain. It's affecting a
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lot of things, and the costs and the prices are
going up. And unless the political environment changes, where we recognize,
you know, some of our decisions, some of our laws,
some of our behaviors, is impacting our citizens, and it's
impacting the world globally because besides it just you know,
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impacting one organization is impacting everyone downstream in the process.
And so we need to take this time and it
will take some time, but you'll appreciate it. Having that
information and that knowledge to be able to make some
really good decisions and be able to make some strategic
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plans are able. You can survive it, you can maneuver
through it, but you have to be informed and know
about it before you can actually make any decisions. And
as I said before, I'll repeat it again don't do
this in a glass bowl. Don't do this yourself, because
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you're going to need other perspectives who have their ears
listening to other things. Also, they're going to bring in
other thoughts, other ideas, other information that needs to be considered.
So put together your team, get together and identify what
are some changes that have happened in your environment that's
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going to impact your organizations. Right now, the federal government
has changed some of the funding that is for nonprofits
and things. You've got to find other sources. There are
other sources, There are philanthropists out there, but just being
able to identify where they are, who they are, and
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what it is that they have a passion about. But
start looking at other avenues, start looking at other paths.
It is a way of navigating, but being silent, being uninformed,
and not taking the time to do what you really
need to do in your organization at this particular time.
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It might end up having an impact that you're really
going to be sorry about later. So I'm just here
to say, think about what's going on, think about what
can impact you. Think about you know, instead of listening
to negative things, look at what's going on, what laws
are being truly passed, Which laws are being held up,
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which laws are not being considered at all, What laws
that have been eliminated that are going to impact not
only your consumers, because if you don't have consumers, you
don't have a business. So if they're affecting your consumers,
keep that in mind. It's not just about your business,
it's not just about you. It's about everyone globally. And
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if there are laws that are being put in place
that impact who your potential consumers are, in your current consumers,
then it's going to impact your business because they're not
going to have the disposable income to be able to
purchase your products. And then of course your costs are
going to go up, so then you've got to pass
that cost on. How is that going to affect those
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who do purchase your items when now it's increase twenty percent,
thirty percent, and their wages did not increase at the
same level. So I'm just wanting you to be informed
during this very important time that we're going through, this
period that we're going through, and it's not just here
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in America, it's globally. People are going through some very
difficult times, especially those that are near waters and the
flooding and just the downpours of rain, the flooding. Their
homes are gone. Where are the materials to replace that?
In some places there's not even any insurance to be
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able to rebuild those homes and rebuild those businesses. So
it's a lot of negative impact that is occurring just
from the weather, and so we need to be conscious
about what's going on. And like I said, there's new
technology out there. It's called AI, and you can just
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go right in there. There's so many names of them
out there right now, it doesn't matter which one. They
pretty much pull the same data. Just go out there
and just check and see what laws have passed, what
environmental things have occurred, what cultural things have changed. Just
look and see what the changes are going to do
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Hello, I'm Angela Sharp, and welcome to a Sharp Outlook. Today.
We're going to be talking about something called pestal the
pestal influence, and what we're going to be talking about
is how it can possibly affect your business. Understanding and
performing a pestal analysis can help business set strategies and
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perform financial and risk analysis. This framework enables you to
review and address various society circumstances that affect businesses operations.
Remain informed about the various pestal factors that can ensure
your business stays competitive and you're able to weather the
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storm of external threats. Most of the time it's large
corporations that do the pestal analysis and because they are
the ones that are the most impacted by macroeconomic events.
But don't just assume that they are the only ones
that are going to be affected. There can be a
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lot of people that are affected by pestle. A pestal
analysis is a strategic framework used to evaluate the external
macro environmental factors that can impact a business. The acronym
for pestal is political, economic, sociological, technological, legal, and environment factors.
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That's what pestal stands for. And let me explain just
briefly how the what each one of those categories could
potentially affect you. Let's start with p political. These factors
relate to how government policy and political stability or instability
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can affect an organization. They include tax polities, labor laws,
trade restrictions, tear roofs, and political climate shifts. Just think
every time that there's a new party that's in place,
it could end up becoming an economic threat for your business,
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just based on new laws that are created and how
far does that political threat or situation go. It can
go worldwide, It can affect tribal and local and state governments, derivatives, legislation, regulations, requirements,
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market regulations, trade agreements, and as I mentioned before, tariffs
and restrictions and tax codes. All of those can have
an impact on your business. And the pestal analysis that
you will do will to see if you have a
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risk based on some of the changes in that political environment.
The e of pestel economic these encompasses the broad economic
conditions that influence a company and consumer behavior. Key factors
include economic growth or decline, interest rates, inflation, exchange rates,
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unemployment rates, and consumer disposable income. If people are being
laid off or being fired and the number of people
that are working, there is going to be a decrease
indisposable income for those individuals. And in they're in your
community and they shop at your stores, it's the potential
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that you're going to have a decline in the number
of consumers coming in and purchasing your products. So economic
can actually really have and major impact on you. And
how far does that economic threat go national? It can
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be global. Factors such as interest rates can affect your home,
can affect your loans, It can affect your credit. It
can affect your ability to purchase new products to expand
your business. Fiscal policies, recession and growth factors. Competitiveness of
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developing countries can affect your business because now there's another
place or another area that your normal customers would be
purchasing products from you. They now have another resource cheaper
products and cheaper labor. We know that we did go
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through a time period where a lot of the manufacturing
was of short because the products were cheaper, the labor
was cheaper, and it was all about the bottom line,
and those things affect small to medium businesses. You're trying
to be competitive, you're trying to sell your products, and
then you have the large corporations who are able to
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get cheaper products and cheaper labor because of these particular
economic factors that are there. Social or socio cultural, this
category examines the social and cultural aspects of the market
and population. It covers demographics, age, gender, ethnicity, cultural trends,
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population growth rates, health consciousness, and shifts in consumer buying
patterns and how far does that go. Societal attitudes. Attitudes
can change, it can change just from too much negative news,
too much negative rhetoric on social media. It can change attitudes,
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It can change mindsets, It can change their spending thoughts
or patterns or behaviors. It can generate lifestyle changes, changes
in populations, behavior distributions, demographics, and the impact of different
mixes of cultures impacts. Also so social things that are
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out there. They can have a major impact on your
particular business, just depending on what community is located in,
who your customers are, what your customers are doing, or
what their political ideas are, their economic situation, is their
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cultural or moral behaviors that things that they have heard
or things that they have seen can absolutely change their minds.
Especially in these days, competition has a way of instead
of improving their product and improving their advertising or improving
their reach, they go so far as to write negative
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articles about their competition. That's not considered fairness, but it
is something that can impact your business. How do your
competitors handle changes in the economic arena when the number
of consumers are reducing or declining because of economic issues.
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I rest assure you you should check on what your
competitors are doing and their advertising out on social media.
Different things like that to make sure they are not
saying things that are negative about your particular business to
attract more business to their establishment. Technological we all know
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about technological I started when we were still punching cards,
and now we have computers in a phone and then
we look up AI is here and it's here to stay,
and so all of these technological changes. These factors relate
to the effect of innovations on a business and his industry.
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They include new technologies, automation, research and development, and a
consumer's access to technology. Sometimes you can lose consumers because
you're doing everything online, and believe it or not, here
in this country, we have areas of the country who
don't have Wi Fi, who are not connected to the web,
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who don't have the ability to connect at a reasonable price,
and so you're never going to be able to reach
those consumers. Or the technology changes and they can't keep
up with the equipment or the computer technology or the devices.
Those kind of things can have an impact on the
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way that you are marketing your products, the way you
are selling your products. A lot of people their stores
are online, a lot of people shop, but technology can
have an effect on that and how far major current
and emerging technology is really important. And as we know,
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AI is on the scene now and it's just going
to continue to evolve and do more than what it
does now. But it does do a lot. But just
imagine when you have AI robots that are now able
to go out and pick vegetables and identify which ones
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are ripe and which ones are not. That's some well,
that's a pretty good technology, but it also is going
to eliminate those that go out and work on the farms.
So it's going to affect more than just your business,
but it's going to affect even those that are consumers
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that technology. It could be technology infrastructure something like I
was mentioned before. We don't have all of the technology
infrastructure in place so that citizens here in this particular
country can reach all of the technological vehicles that are
out there to make their life more easier or make
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things more comfortable, or utilize the latest softwares or the
latest systems that are out there. And then of course
we do have merging countries who don't have a lot
of that. So if you're having some of your products
that are sold globally, technology can impact how those consumers
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can continue to purchase from you or receive their goods
or whatever, you know, those things that can possibly interrupt
their business. So these are some major factors. Another factor
is legal. The component involves the laws and regulations that
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government business operations. Legal factors include health and safety requirements,
equity opportunities laws, consumer protection laws, intellectual property rights. All
of these things can be very important and can affect
your business just depending on what your business is. Like
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I said, then, intellectual property rights, that is really big
going on right now because of all of the new
technology that is growing and expanding and everyone's fighting for position,
and so intellectual property rights are very important. If you
are a creator and you are developing some new system,
some new idea, some new technology that's out there, and
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you're wanting to make sure that it is protected, you
need to know what those laws are and what your
rights are when someone infringes on that particular situation. In
other words, it's about being informed. Something I say every week.
Stay informed, and you want to be informed. Not only
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stay informed, but get informed because it's really important that
you do this. And legal problems can be as far
as globally, wars, earthquakes, weather, climate, global and national proposals
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that can affect your business, agreements that are made between countries.
A lot of different things can affect you. Past legislation.
Knowing what by the way your tax dollars are paying
these congressional people, you ought to stay informed as to
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what they're doing and if they're actually working on your behalf.
It should not be allowing someone that you are paying
to make legislative changes or write laws that impact you
that takes your finances away, that it takes your healthcare away,
that takes your property rights away, all of these different things.
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Go to the city council meetings. Go to the meetings
that they have in your particular location of your business
and locate of your home. Stay inform. You're a citizen
of this country. Your voice matters. But when you stay
home silent and then they make laws that negatively impact you,
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were you there, you should be there. Make your voice heard,
make your thoughts known. Let them know that it's going
to impact your personal income, it's going to impact your home,
is going to impact your health. Be sure you stay
involved and pay attention not to the silly stuff that's
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going on, but important stuff like what laws are they
talking about passing and will it impact me. Don't let
anyone tell you something that you need to research on
your own. You need to research all laws that are
passed that are impacting you personally and especially impacting your business,
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your organization, your company, your partnership, your foundation. Know what
the new laws are that are going to impact your business,
because once they're passed, it may take another election or
even longer before those negative impacts are removed, if ever removed.
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So pay attention to the laws that are being passed.
Don't let them do the Oki dook and point fingers
at each other. Look and in fact, technology that Little
AI bought you can go in there and type in
what that law is. It will summarize it for you
so you can see and find out exactly what's going on.
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And then you go down there and let your voice
be heard. The last framework is environmental. Environmental things impact businesses.
We have so many storms and floods and different things
that are happening right now. The environment is very important.
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There's certain considerations you should be looking at locally, nationally,
and even globally. Local, national, and international environments impact all
of us. If you end up with storms or floods
or things in areas where goods are being produced that
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we need to buy, foods are being destroyed. That's going
to impact guess what, The price is going to be
much higher at the grocery store. So it does impact you.
It impacts all of your goods and services that are
going to be coming into your business that you're going
to resale to your customer. Now you have to deal
with higher prices because they had major flooding in an
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area where you probably get your products. So environmental impacts
have a strong impact upon your particular business, especially your
supply chain. If you can't get your goods, you can't
sell to your customers. So all of those things are
very important to be reviewing when you are doing a
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pestal analysis. This is not just something to hear from
me or to just kind of read and shrug your shoulders.
You need to do a thorough, thorough, thorough investigation and
research as to how it might affect you. Let's talk
about the benefits of a pestal analysis. It drives the
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strategic thinking. It provides a comprehensive overview of the wide
business environment and encourages leaders to think strategically. One of
the things that you should be doing when you are
thinking strategically, when you're trying to do a pestel. Please
don't do it by yourself. Bring in different voices, bring
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in different members of your organization, bring in consultants, whatever,
someone that it might be knowledgeable, and sit down and
pull it all apart. Open the curtain, open the doors,
look at seeing what's really really going on and what's
going to be impacted. It's important to do that before
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you look up and you're struggling to keep your business
open because you didn't realize one of these factors was
getting ready to impact your business in such a negative way,
you're now struggling to stay open. So it's important to
do that. Another benefit it identifies opportunities and threats. Sometimes
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the threats can be something good that you can take
advantage of, and it makes an opportunity. It opens up
things that you had never thought about before. You know,
proactively spot a potential opportunity, anticipate future business threats and
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allowing for risk mitigation. Now, if you're in a business,
if you're a manager in a business, or this is
your own company, your own organization, you're head of a nonprofit,
you're going to want to know about the risk factors,
and they're genuinely doing risk analysis about different things. You know,
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the federal government has you know, decided not to fund
specific programs. Now you realize you have to go and
find other resources, and so that kind of analysis is
being done. We're understanding that we have all of these
threats out here of people hacking and stealing you know,
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your customer's financial information and personal information, and all of
these hacking and spam and different things, and trying to
do ransomware and shut down businesses and making them pay
millions of dollars to get their systems back up. Those
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are threats, and being aware of all of those threats,
you generally have services or systems in place or policies
in place to protect yourself. But then when you start
talking about a pestle, these are threats that you can't control.
The only thing you can do is mitigate the impact
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by seeing how it affects you and making some strategic
plans to change that. Another benefit, it'll support decision making.
It provides contextual information that leads to more informed and
decisive actions, such as when to enter a new market
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or launch a new product. Because if these environmental changes
or political changes, or legal changes or technological changes are
going to have an impact. You're going to definitely want
to know before you launch something new that's going to
potentially pull a lot from your organization, pull a lot
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from your financial bottom line and your financial growth, and
see exactly maybe you need to delay that for a
little while until some of this threat settles down, some
of the impact is resolved, some of the things go away.
You're going to want to definitely know that you need
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to think strategically about that, not just oh, because I've
already bought these banners and i already set the date,
we're going to do it. Anyway, think about it. If
it's not going to have a positive impact on your
business and help your business to grow and expand your business,
it may be a time to sit back and and
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let's just cruise through all of this environmental and legal
and political and technological all of these things. Just cruise
through until things kind of stabilize, and then you'll have
a much better positive impact when you launch that new product.
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It also aids organizational change. When you look and you
do your pestal analysis, you're going to recognize external shifts
that might require changes in business processes or a pivot
in overall strategy. You're going to recognize where you do
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have some weaknesses that you need to sure up with
process changes. Maybe it is time when you look at it,
maybe it is time to get a more efficient software system.
I do software implementations also, and I've been a chief
financial officer and director of finance, VP of finance, and
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I've had to look at all of these things over
the years at different organizations. When you're looking at technology
and how fast it's growing, you need to really look
and see how is your company going to keep up
with the technological changes and how it's going to impact
your business. And most of the time, when new technology
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is brought into the arena and you are thinking about
bringing that into your organization, you know, I'll just tell
you upfront you're going to have process changes because that's
the purpose. It makes the processes more efficient, it makes
information flow faster, it makes information relatable throughout the whole
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organization instead of one department at a time, and so
you'll get an overall look at what's going on in
your organization. When you have new technology in your organization,
it will make things more efficient, it'll give you more details,
it'll give you key indicators. If you make at one
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of your analysis that you want done in a report,
it'll in fact do all of your analysis now. So
you have to look at that and see, Okay, I'm
going to have to change some processes because right now
we're not working as efficiently as you should as well.
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Benefits are good, but let's talk about the limitations of
a pastal analysis. It can be time consuming, yeah, but
sometimes time consuming things that happen they really end up
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saving your lives. So it may take some time doing
the research and analysis across you know, all six areas,
because you can't just do one area because they're generally interconnected.
So as you're doing this analysis in all six areas,
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it can require significant time and resources, especially if you're
in a fast paced industry, but it will benefit to you.
We talked about the benefits. You're going to have information
in your hands to help you make the right decisions
and a time where you don't have any control over
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what's going on externally, so you do want to do
you do want to look at it, but it is
limited because if you're not going to take the time,
you're not going to get the benefits. Like I said,
it can have opportunities that are there, but you're not
going to see the opportunities because you're not taking time
to invest to gate what it is and then see
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how it impacts your organization and see if you can
turn it into something positive and turn it into an opportunity.
Subjectivity of interpretation. This is why I'm recommending that you
have more than one person working on this particular analysis.
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It's qualitative data, and different individuals will bring varying interpretations
of the same information, which could lead to inconsistent results.
But when you're sitting there working together and you're talking
about the results, it helps you to see it from
different angles, different ideas, different perspectives. Sometimes it requires you
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to bring someone else in to look at that information,
to look at that data with a new set of
eyes and see if things are as good and rosy
as you might think it is because you're looking at
it maybe a little biased. It also has as a
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static snapshot like a balance sheet, is static, it represents
a specific moment in time. The findings can quickly become
outdated due to the dynamics of the macro environment. Issues
that are happening. So it's not something that's gonna you
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look at it and now you look back at it
a year later. It's something that is currently that currently
you need to be addressing. Currently, you need to be
looking at currently, you need to be monitoring. And then
also as you're currently looking at that, you also need
to think about the fact that these factors are going
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to change. The environment is changing daily, you know, I've
never seen so many floods, you know, going on in
some of the most unique areas, and the earthquakes that
are happening in the tsunamis that are happening, and then
the weather, just the downpours of rain and the fires.
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We have some unpredictable environmental issues that are happening. Not
to mention, our oceans have been dying and in the
life in the oceans. I have a guess that's going
to be coming soon to discuss about our oceans. But
all of these are factors that could impact you, and
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you need to understand that when you're taking this analysis,
you're doing this analysis on your organization based on the pestle.
It's changing rapidly changing, and can you get yourself situated
that you can go in and now now apply the
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changes that have been made since the last analysis that
you did and see if it changes your strategic plans
that you're putting together. One other downside to it, it
excludes internal factors. Now, some weeks back, I did less
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on the SWAT your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, the
internal ones that you can control. The pestle framework focuses
exclusively on external factors and does not consider organizations internal
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strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, it is most effective when used
with other tools such as a SWAT. If you've done
your SWAT, then it will make it easier for you
to do your pestal analysis because you know what your
strengths and your weaknesses and opportunities and threats are. How
are they being impacted now with these external factors that
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you have no control over except to mitigate the impact
by making some process changes, making some purchasing changes, making
you know, some protections and insurance purchases, whatever is necessary
to be able to help your company to stand through
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this storm that's happening from these external factors. It is
something that it has to be taken, you know, pretty
seriously as to what is going on your organization and
what is happening outside. These factors are important. These things
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can really change your lives. Like I mentioned, pestle is political, economics, social, technological, legal,
and environmental, and all of those things can really have
an impact on you. Like I said, especially a technological
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we all know that it is really moving very quickly.
And the current and emerging technologies and infrastructure and ability
to react quickly to change in operations, to meet demand,
an ability to remain competitive. Your competitors are able to
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probably have a higher market share because of their processes,
because of the technology, because of the speed of information
that they're able to get, and they can react a
lot faster because they do have that technology in place.
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The legal, like I said, it's global right now. We
have quite a bit of legal things that are happening.
We've got the tariffs that are going on that are
impacting companies. Manufacturing, like I said, was offshore. We're trying
to bring it back, but the parts are now because
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of the tariffs overpriced. It's affecting and impacting jobs. How
are you going to end up, you know, managing that.
How are you going to be able to come up
with other ideas to be able to offset the impact
on your organization. It's something to think about, it's something
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to realize you need to work on, you really need
to look at, you really need to think about. As
I was sitting down thinking about this conversation, thinking about
what would be a good example and one of the
good examples that I can think of what a pestle
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will look like. For I picked up Nike, and so
I'm looking at Nike and seeing their Pestel analysis and
for the political factor, how did Nike handle political factors?
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Access to favorable government policies looking at the government policies
and seeing which ones are favorable that are going to
expand your business, help your business, pro political stability, regional
tax policies, looking at the tax policies that are changing
in your particular region, in your particular industry in your
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particular area. And limited trade restrictions, looking at the tradects
restrictions and knowing that, HM, I may have to look
at some other sources to get my product manufactured or
get my supplies so I can manufacture my products or
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the other products that you're not actually manufacturing, but they
are part of the product that you are selling, looking
at other opportunities or where you can get that because
of the regional or limited trade restrictions and things like
that that could impact the economic factor. Target the middle
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and high income earning populations with better purchasing power. This
is how Nike looks at his customer base. They're looking
at okay, based on my prices have gone up, I'm
going to be looking at my advertising and focusing my
advertising on the middle and higher income populations because they
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have better purchasing power. I'm not going to be you know,
spending advertising dollars or doing things in an area where
that population cannot purchase my product. The social factors, Nike
is gonna really listen to have their ear to the
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ground and they're listening, and they're listening to health conscious populations,
develop social campaigns to attract the younger generation. We know
our younger generation loves their I still call them tennis shoes.
They love their They don't even call them sneakers either.
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Lets you nowhere how old I am. But they're trying
to because they've they've had a customer base. But every
twenty years, you've got a new generation that's coming into
a point where they are going to have disposable income,
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and so you need to be able to track that
younger generation, and you need to do it with different
advertising than what you did when I was starting out
or some of you other listeners. They're going to change
the advertising, they're going to change their focus. They're going
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to be pushing towards more of the younger generation. They're
going to be the commercials that they do are going
to have either even younger people than before because of
the fact they're trying to pull in a whole population
that hasn't been buying their particular shoe, and then also
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making sure they have their brand shoes for the most
popular player out there and advertising and having those players
being their commercials so that the youth that are following
that particular athlete is going to buy their shoe. And
so they're always looking at these things. The technological factor
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you know, Nikes, they're you know, going to be installing
the most efficient machinery in their factor factory, modern technology
to improve efficient manufacturing, modern technology, to improve research and development,
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research and development of new products that might be needed
in those particular shoes that they are putting together. They
do more than shoes. They do jackets they do you know,
sweats and things like that, So doing you know, making
sure that the products that they're bringing in are meeting
what the new fat fat is for the younger generation.
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And then even looking at materials, where are materials coming from.
Maybe they're with the floods and the changes in the
environmental and there's been a lot of storms, different things
like that, crops have been destroyed and things. Looking at
where else they can get supplies so that they're still
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able to get their materials to do the manufacturing of
their goods. So finding all of those things. So they're
looking at those particular things in the legal factor, strict
adherence to safety rules and regulations, and strict guidelines on
enforcing copyright regulations on imitation companies. A lot of people
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go out there and they'll try to get one of
the shoes, and they'll go out and they'll try to
do design something very similar and just to compete with Nike.
It's kind of hard to compete with them because they
are really good at what they do. But it doesn't
mean you're not going to have knockoffs out there trying
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to compete with them to sell the shoe and steal
Nike's customers, so knowing the laws and they're going to
be enforcing those laws and looking at what laws have
been put in place so that they can protect you know,
their trademark and protect their product and protect you know,
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from having knockoffs being done with their products and things
like that. And then environmental factors, researching and use of
sustainable raw materials, planning and conducting environmental awareness. So even
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in their commercials, even in the things that they design
and things that they do, just going out there and
making sure that they are they in their advertising they
talk about, you know, some of the economic issues, they
talk about some of the issues that like the oceans
or different things like that, bringing up, you know, things
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that are showed that they're an organization that is, you know,
conscious minded of the environment, because that can be a
really big thing. You don't want to get some environmentalists
upset with your company because you're dumping waste or things
like that, because they're going to be in front of
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your organization. They're going to be out there picketing, they're
going to be out there making noise, They're going to
be out there letting people know that you don't care
about the environment. You're dumping waste or you're polluting the
waters or different things like that. So all of that
is very important, and so those are things also that
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you can do internally. Make some changes in how your
advertisements are designed and things like that, so that it
appears that you are environmentally conscious and that you are
looking out for the consumers and nature and things like that.
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There are a lot of people that are very concerned
about those things, and we rightfully sow and companies can
be more environmentally conscious. And if not, like I said,
you're going to have people standing in front of your
establishment with picket signs, and of course then they're going
to attract the attention of news organizations and then it's
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going to end up being on social media and it
can affect your reputation. And your reputation is one of
the strongest assets that you can have, and so you
want to make sure that you protect your reputation and
you're not allowing you know, different things like someone being
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upset about the product that you're producing, or you know,
some kind of negative news and things like that. So
just staying informed about what's going on, Like I said,
the law changes that are going on the political environment
that's out there, consumer goods, you know, not being some
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of these tariffs and some of these agreements that have
been signed with other nations. They've been there in place
for years and years and years, and suddenly now they're
not in place anymore. So it's affecting our businesses, it's
affecting organizations, it's affecting the supply chain. It's affecting a
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lot of things, and the costs and the prices are
going up. And unless the political environment changes, where we recognize,
you know, some of our decisions, some of our laws,
some of our behaviors, is impacting our citizens, and it's
impacting the world globally because besides it just you know,
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impacting one organization is impacting everyone downstream in the process.
And so we need to take this time and it
will take some time, but you'll appreciate it. Having that
information and that knowledge to be able to make some
really good decisions and be able to make some strategic
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plans are able. You can survive it, you can maneuver
through it, but you have to be informed and know
about it before you can actually make any decisions. And
as I said before, I'll repeat it again don't do
this in a glass bowl. Don't do this yourself, because
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you're going to need other perspectives who have their ears
listening to other things. Also, they're going to bring in
other thoughts, other ideas, other information that needs to be considered.
So put together your team, get together and identify what
are some changes that have happened in your environment that's
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going to impact your organizations. Right now, the federal government
has changed some of the funding that is for nonprofits
and things. You've got to find other sources. There are
other sources, There are philanthropists out there, but just being
able to identify where they are, who they are, and
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what it is that they have a passion about. But
start looking at other avenues, start looking at other paths.
It is a way of navigating, but being silent, being uninformed,
and not taking the time to do what you really
need to do in your organization at this particular time.
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It might end up having an impact that you're really
going to be sorry about later. So I'm just here
to say, think about what's going on, think about what
can impact you. Think about you know, instead of listening
to negative things, look at what's going on, what laws
are being truly passed, Which laws are being held up,
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which laws are not being considered at all, What laws
that have been eliminated that are going to impact not
only your consumers, because if you don't have consumers, you
don't have a business. So if they're affecting your consumers,
keep that in mind. It's not just about your business,
it's not just about you. It's about everyone globally. And
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if there are laws that are being put in place
that impact who your potential consumers are, in your current consumers,
then it's going to impact your business because they're not
going to have the disposable income to be able to
purchase your products. And then of course your costs are
going to go up, so then you've got to pass
that cost on. How is that going to affect those
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who do purchase your items when now it's increase twenty percent,
thirty percent, and their wages did not increase at the
same level. So I'm just wanting you to be informed
during this very important time that we're going through, this
period that we're going through, and it's not just here
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in America, it's globally. People are going through some very
difficult times, especially those that are near waters and the
flooding and just the downpours of rain, the flooding. Their
homes are gone. Where are the materials to replace that?
In some places there's not even any insurance to be
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able to rebuild those homes and rebuild those businesses. So
it's a lot of negative impact that is occurring just
from the weather, and so we need to be conscious
about what's going on. And like I said, there's new
technology out there. It's called AI, and you can just
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go right in there. There's so many names of them
out there right now, it doesn't matter which one. They
pretty much pull the same data. Just go out there
and just check and see what laws have passed, what
environmental things have occurred, what cultural things have changed. Just
look and see what the changes are going to do
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to your business and make the decisions you need to
make to be successful. I hope you've enjoyed this topic,
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