Om värld och bevakning
en studie av en företagslednings omvärldsbild och dess samband med omvärldsbevakningen
Background: Increasing globalization makes companies more influenced than before by actors and factors in their environment. For some this has lead to a more dynamic and complicated business context. Therefore it is of strategic importance to understand what is currently going on as well as to have a general idea of what the future brings. Purpose: To contribute to a deeper understanding of how a corporate management can perceive its business environment and how it affects he gathering of business information from a strategic perspective. Realisation: In-depth interviews were conducted with all four members of the management in the studied company, Volvo Competence Center in Skovde, Sweden. Conclusions: The company's business context was perceived predominantely congruently by the management. Business intelligence was found to be linked mostly to personal areas of resposibility. A model was produced to show the connection between perception of environment and gathering of business information, and VCC was applied in this model.