This 19 page paper looks at the firm Jacobs Technology and analyses the external environment looking at the economic, social, political, technological and demographic influences, and then considers the competitive approach of the firm and conducts a SWOT analysis, examining the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats faced by the firm. The last part of the paper suggests three long term strategies that the firm could adopt. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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LONG TERM OBJECTIVES 19 8. CONCLUSION 20 1. Introduction Jacobs Technology is a division of Jacobs Engineering which deals with advanced technology. With nearly 11,000 employees
this division is part of a company that is of the United States largest engineering and technical services only firms, giving it a relativity specialized field of operations. With a
history of more than 70 years of serving both commercial and government clients the firm has a well established history (Jacobs Technology, 2009). Jacobs Technology clients include NASA, DOD, Special
Operations Command and the DOE, commercial clients include Boeing, Rolls Royce, Ford and General Motors (Jacobs Technology, 2009). In excess of 90% of the business undertaken by the divisions are
to repeat customers, indicating the high level of trust that has been created and the ongoing relationship that is created between the firms and the clients. An important client
is the Department of Defense and one internal department/division the firm is the dealing with the Marine Corps High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) program, which includes a range of
products, including a wide variety of wheeled vehicle platforms, as well as other ancillary or complimentary items, such as MCTAGS; Marine Corps Transparent Armor Gun Shield which are ballistic
glass panels on gun turrets. In order to consider the potential future of the firm it is important to look at the environment in which it operates to
assess and the way that this is likely to change in order to determine what policies may be viable for the future. To assess the external influences will be considered
and the competitiveness of the firm can be looked at to end up with an assessment of potential future strategies. 2. Economic Influences
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