Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Function: IT/Library
Collaborative analysis performed by FLP Cohort 4, October 2009
PESTLE
Analysis
Factors
Political
Function
Potential
Impact
IT
Overall impact
(High, Medium,
Low,
Undetermined)
Time Frame
(0-6 months, 6-12
months etc)
Type
(positive,
negative, u/k)
Impact
Increasing,
decreasing,
unchanged,
u/k
Relative
Importance
Critical,
important,
unimportant,
unknown
High
0-12 months
depending on
political calendar
for election,
budgets
Negative
Increasing
Critical
Economic
High
Social
Medium
Technolog
ical
Medium
High
6-12 months
Negative
Increasing
Critical
High
Legal
High
High
Environmental
High massive
investment
required
Ongoing no
current legal
requirement but
this may become
a reality
Short term
ve impact
(financial
outlay);
longer term
+ve through
reduced
power
Increasing
impact,
lessened to
an extent if
technologie
s such as
virtualisatio
n are
Important
becoming
critical as
climate
change
impact
develops
Medium
requires asset
management
procedures, staff
and budget
resources to
administer
Current
regulations are
already in place
consumption
adopted
+ve impact
for
environment;
-ve in terms
of potential
for additional
resources
required
Impact
likely to
increase if
IT and
electrical
equipment
usage
increases
Important