7. Within the last three years, has your organization’s reputation improved, remained
unchanged or deteriorated?
8. How satisfied is organizational leadership with this reputation?
Image Index
Place an “X” at the appropriate location in the following listing:
Does your organization consider its product(s) or service(s):
Contemporary------------------------------------------------ Traditional
Fun------------------------------------------------------------- Tedious
High Tech------------------------------------------------------ Low Tech
Ordinary------------------------------------------------------- Distinguished
Inexpensive---------------------------------------------------- Expensive
Practical-------------------------------------------------------- Idealistic
Modest----------------------------------------------------------Pretentious
Abundant------------------------------------------------------ Scarce
Beneficial------------------------------------------------------ Worthless
Efficient--------------------------------------------------------- Inefficient
Routine--------------------------------------------------------- Innovative
Essential-------------------------------------------------------- Luxury
Safe-------------------------------------------------------------Risky
High Quality--------------------------------------------------- Low Quality
B. Research Program
If there are any significant gaps in the existing information, you may have to conduct
research to learn more about the public perception of your organization. This section
will guide you through consideration of that option.
1. What is the basis for the existing information noted above: previous formal
research, informal or anecdotal feedback, organizational experience, personal
observation, presumption/supposition by planner(s) and/or something else?
2. How reliable is this existing information?
3. How appropriate would it be to conduct additional research?
4. If the existing information is not highly reliable, consider additional research, such
as the following:
Interviews with key people within the organization
Review of organizational literature/information
Additional personal observation
Interviews with external experts or opinion leaders
Surveys with representative publics
C. Research Findings
After you have conducted formal research, indicate your findings as they shed light on
the public perception of your organization and write a brief summary of the public
perception.
Basic Planning Questions
1. What is the major competition for your organization?
2. What significant opposition exists?
3. Is anything happening in the environment that can limit the effectiveness of the
public relations program?
Expanded Planning Questions
A. Existing Information
Answer the following questions based on what you know directly or what you can learn
from your client or colleagues within your organization.
Competition
1. How competitive is the external environment of your organization?
2. What other organizations compete on this issue?
3. What are their performance levels?
4. What are their reputations?
5. What are their resources?
6. What does the competition offer that you don’t?
7. How has the competition changed within the last three years?
8. Within the next three years, is the competition likely to increase, remain unchanged
or decrease?
Opposition
1. What groups exist with a mission to resist or hinder your organization?
2. How effective have these groups been in the past?
3. What is their reputation?
4. What are their resources?
5. How have these groups changed within the last three years?
6. How have their tactics changed?
7. Within the next three years, is the opposition likely to increase, remain unchanged
or decrease?
External Impediments
1. Is the environment in which you are operating currently growing, stable, declining
or unpredictable?
2. What changes, if any, are projected for this environment?
3. What impediments deal with customers?
4. What impediments deal with regulators?
5. What impediments have financial or economic origins?
6. What impediments have political origins?
7. What impediments originate in society at large?
B. Research Program
If there are any significant gaps in the existing information, you may have to conduct
research to learn more about the external environment of your organization. This section will guide you through consideration of that option.
1. What is the basis for the existing information noted above: previous formal
research, informal or anecdotal feedback, organizational experience, personal
observation, presumption/supposition by planner(s) and/or something else?
2. How reliable is this existing information?
3. How appropriate would it be to conduct additional research?
4. What information remains to be obtained?
5. If the existing information is not highly reliable, consider additional research, such
as the following:
Review of organizational literature/information
Review of other published information (books, periodicals, etc.)
Review of electronic information (Internet, CD-ROM, etc.)
Interviews with key people within the organization
Interviews with external experts or opinion leaders
Focus groups with representative publics
Surveys with representative publics
Content analysis of materials
6. What research methods will you use to obtain the needed information?
C. Research Findings
After you have conducted formal research, indicate your findings as they shed light on the external environment of your organization and write a brief summary of the external environment.
Consensus Check
Does agreement exist within your organization about these observations on the internal and external environment?
If “yes,” proceed to the next section.
If “no,” consider the value and/or possibility of achieving consensus before
proceeding."
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