Your Organization Is Likely to Be Purchased by a Competitor

Your organization is likely to be purchased by a competitor. The Management has asked you, in confidence, to complete environmental scanning to determine the effects of the purchase on your organization's culture, customers, and employees. What is environmental scanning?

A) Environmental scanning is a review of the cultural achievability of a new project, organizational change, or market influence on at least three factors in an organization.
B) Environmental scanning is a review of the opportunities and threats that a condition may have on an organization.
C) Environmental scanning is an internal review of an external catalyst.
D) Environmental scanning is the process of assessing the effects of an organization change on both macro and micro elements in an organization.