What Strategic issues particular to the enterprise(s) and context described

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

? Social acceptance of flowers to decorate the home created a commercial market (A)
? Regulations encourage the formation of a limited company (B)
? Extensions to the rail transport network pioneered by the Victorians transforms access to markets
across the entire UK in late 1800s and early 1900s (C)
? 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars radically changes all the Scanstep © environmental factors, notably it
alters Lowe and Shawyer’s output at a stroke (D1 and D2)
? Lowe and Shawyer applies new knowledge to the breeding of plants and adapts the physical
environment for growing flowers using heated glasshouses, significantly enhancing variety, yield
and the volume of total output (E)
? Less formal and more progressive, consumer-oriented UK society after about 1950 (F)
? In response, competitors begin importing plants and flowers grown in warmer climates, often using
much lower cost labour (G)
? Application of new mass-production technologies (e.g. in the car industry) attracts workers to major
industrial centres, drives up wage rates and makes labour harder to attract in traditional industries
(H)
? Government economic policies prioritise the development of key industries, notably reconstruction
and healthcare. Other sectors are prioritised only if they generate substantial exports (e.g. car
industry) (I).