1. What key environmental changes do you think will increasingly force managers to be proficient at conducting environmental analyses?
2. Are there industries that will be more immune to changes in the global environment and as a consequence will be influenced primarily by their domestic external environment? Name at least two and explain why.
3. What are the most difficult environmental analysis skills to develop? What are some possible means of ensuring that you have these valuable skills?
4. Debate the following statement: Computers and news media have made international environment analysis simpler.
5. Pick a country and go to the library or the internet to find some information about its resources, government, political and legal systems, and physical infrastructure. What types of business would do well in that country? Why?