Question

Environment scanning is careful monitoring of an organization's _______ environments for detecting early signs of opportunities and threats that may influence its current and future plans.

• A. internal
• B. external
• C. both (A) and (B)
• D. outside

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

both (A) and (B)

Environment scanning includes monitoring, evaluation, and dissemination of relevant information from the internal and external environments for decision making.

Such a careful monitoring of an organization's internal and external environments helps detecting early signs of opportunities and threats which might influence the firm's plans.