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PESTLE analysis

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, PESTLE analysis means: An examination of political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental influences on an organisation.

In Turkish: PESTLE analizi

How it is used

Use to organise broad external influences; the letters name categories rather than a scoring formula.

Example sentences

  1. Our PESTLE analysis included demographic change as well as energy prices.

    The framework brings different types of external influence into one review.

  2. A PESTLE analysis helped the exporter separate technology trends from changes in regulation.

    Separate categories make the external environment easier to examine systematically.

Common collocations

  • conduct a PESTLE analysis
  • update the PESTLE analysis
  • SWOT analysisA planning tool that lists an organisation's internal strengths and weaknesses and the external opportunities and threats it faces, used before making strategic choices.
  • risk assessmentThe process of identifying what could go wrong in a plan or activity, judging how likely and how serious each risk is, and deciding how to reduce it.

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