- Political
- Economic
- Social
- The "PESTLE" template is a useful tool for understanding the environment of an enterprise or system.
It provides a checklist of Political, Economic, Social, Technology, legal and Environmental factors.
Metaphor: a mortar and pestle provides an environment for crushing, grinding and mixing.
- Technology
- Legal
- Environmental
- Tax policies, trade restrictions, tariffs, political stability, industries encouraged or discouraged, influence on health, education, and infrastructure.
- Business cycles, interest rates, exchange rates, money supply, inflation, unemployment, disposable income, availability and cost of energy, impact of globalisation.
- Attitude to mental and physical health, population growth rate, age distribution, social mobility, career attitudes, work ethics, lifestyle changes and attitude to safety.
- Research and development activity, protection and support for innovation and invention, level of automation, technology incentives, rate of technological change, technical barriers to entry and minimum efficient production levels.
- Legislation, laws and regulations govenring contracts, discrimination, consumer protection, competition, employment, health and safety and the environment.
- Weather, climate, climate change, waste, carbon trading and conservation