MACRO EXTERNAL M-ENVIRONMENT “SCAN” LINKS

DEMOGRAPHICDemographic (Location) http://factfinder2.census.gov/ Demographic (Type) http://www.census.gov/people/

ECONOMICEconomic (“Macro-Scan”)http://www.bea.gov/Competition (Used for “Competitive Analysis” NOT “Macro-Scan”)http://www.netmba.com/strategy/competitor-analysis/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_five_forces_analysishttps://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_08.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter%27s_generic_strategieshttps://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newSTR_82.htmhttp://www.uhu.es/45122/temas/P&SC/Theme3_MarketingWarfare.pdf

SOCIAL-CULTURALSocial http://trendwatching.com/ Cultural http://www.faithpopcorn.com/ Societal http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/

ECOLOGICAL/NATURE Naturehttp://library.usgs.gov/maplinks.html Climate/Weather & Almanac http://www.weather.com/ http://www.almanac.com/ http://www.weatheranalytics.com/wa/

TECHNOLOGICALTechnology http://www.futuretechnologyportal.com/ Advanced Research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA http://www.darpa.mil/

POLITICAL-LEGALPolitical http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_agencies Legal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law Policy Patterns http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tanks