Overview: Evaluating a Company’s External Environment.Identifying opportunities and threats is an important part of creating a successful strategy. With that in mind, and drawing from the information presented in the reading (attached powerpoint) and video https://youtu.be/mYF2_FBCvXw in this module, perform an external assessment of an organization.Instructions:Select an organization (Textron Inc (TXT)) and conduct an external audit. Conduct research to look for opportunities and threats of the organization. Good resources would be newspapers, magazines, D&B Hoovers http://www.hoovers.com/, Morningstar, https://www.morningstar.com/, globalEDGE, https://globaledge.msu.edu/, Industries, https://home.kpmg/us/en/home/industries.html and so forth.Using current APA format, post a 2-page summary of your findings.• Make a list of 10 opportunities and 10 threats that this company faces.• Analyze the company’s strategies using Porter’s model.• Ensure the paper supports your arguments using peer-reviewed articles.• Must use textbook, if applicable, (listed below) as a reference and you can as many additional references as you require (see additional references below), however, references must be properly cited in the paper (to include page number), and they must be validated ‘peer reviewed’ sources and should NOT be from Wikipedia, newspapers, blogs, websites, new releases, white papers, advertising articles, business journals, and social media.• Textbook Reference:o David, F. R. and David, F. R. (2017). Strategic Management. A Competitive Advantage Approach, (16th ed.). Google Drive Link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zds-hAH1qJ9DeKvSVwQYHtzuCGjP_L7o• Additional References:o Yahoo Finance (Textron Inc (TXT)): https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TXT?p=TXTo See attached PDF Reports
