Posted: January 20th, 2016

Conduct research to identify political trends, patterns, and consistencies in the two business environments for (Vale) to research national and global levels.

1. Consider the following items on various business environments, including both internal and external environments:
a. Internal
b. Political
c. Economic
d. Social
e. Technological
2. Pick two of the environments you would like to further research for this assignment.
3. Apply your research on the Brazilian company (Vale).
4. Conduct research to identify political trends, patterns, and consistencies in the two business environments for (Vale) to research national and global levels.
5. Write TWO pages business brief. Use section headers appropriately. Include references from the attached MBA Journals List. Your brief should include the following:
a. Briefly orient the reader to the industry that you have selected.
b. Describe the key trends, patterns, and consistencies in both of the environments you researched.
c. Identify important synergies or convergences among the trends, if any exists.
d. Select what you believe is the most critical trend, pattern, or consistency related to your industry’s future success from among all the trends, patterns, and consistencies you have identified. Explain why you think this is the most critical to the industry.
e. Analyze what you believe will be the major impacts of this most critical trend, pattern, or consistency on the industry over the next five years.