Organizational Issues

Organizational Issues

Issues of Organization in the Next Five Years:

Threats from Other Businesses:

This factor describes the fact the due to the dramatic increase in the market competition and entrances of new businesses, the existing business are facing more problems than ever and there is a greater need for environmental scanning.

Change in Working Pattern:

As the business world is facing continuous innovations in its processes, organizations are facing another issue of change in the working processes and therefore there is a greater need of continuous scanning (Mesch, 1984, pp. 17-22)

Government Influences:

The government policies, rules, regulations, prudential that affect the business and work force call for periodic scanning. Because in the coming years, the state government will be taking more actions to maintain the healthy business environment in an economy.

Economic Conditions:

The economy in which business is operating is the key that largely affects the businesses activities. The economic condition of economy can be remaining same; it is affected by the change in the surroundings. This change may contribute positively or negatively depending upon the ability of economy to accept the change. A single fluctuation can hit the business roots badly. Therefore there is a greater need of scanning the activities of economy (Fahey & Narayanan, 1986).

Geographic Conditions:

The geographic conditions are somehow responsible for the businesses. Geographical conditions are the natural physical environment in which business operates therefore important to take into considerations

Competition:

The business industry has changed today to the greater extent. The complex environment of business today calls for greater competition today and thus increasing the complexities of existing businesses to proactively tackle this issue.

Changing Client Needs:

The 'green' agenda and the requirement for business to be able to demonstrate a reduction to their carbon footprint means that if we are to provide a one-stop shop for our client's needs we will have to diversify and be able to provide consultancy services around issues of energy efficiency and regulatory compliance. In addition, attracting clients may increasing become dependent on the availability of these bolt-on-services in which the cost of energy through procurement is just one of the ways in which companies seek to reduce their energy costs (Katz & Kahn,1966, pp.257-267 )?

Internally Derived Issues:

Exponential Growth:

The rate of growth for the core procurement model and the future range of services that will be made available mean that the management of the organisation will be stretched in terms of their span of control. It will be a tall order to ensure growth at the current rate whilst developing new income streams, meeting any new regulations that are thrown at us, maintaining supplier relations and monitoring finance (Thomas and McDaniel, 1990, pp. 288).

Finding staff:

Finding reliable staff remains problematic and although the high level of unemployment should help there is no significant pool of staff to draw from who have experience within energy brokerage. This creates a requirement for speedy and good training and delivering this over and over again is a difficulty we have not yet conquered.

Identify Work Force Skills:

The business should be able to identify the ...