This document discusses scanning the marketing environment. It defines environmental scanning as studying political, economic, social, and technological trends that influence businesses. The environment offers opportunities and threats. It can be divided into the micro environment (internal factors like suppliers, customers, competitors) and macro environment (external uncontrollable factors like demographics, economy, natural resources, technology, politics, and sociocultural aspects). The document provides details on factors analyzed in each of these environments to understand external influences on a company.