PEST Analysis Litton
A PEST Analysis was completed on Northrop Grumman London The results in the following pages cover the London Service Centre as a whole and includes the Engineering Customer Support prospective in some detail. Note: For purposes of this PEST Analysis I have changed the headings to be better suited to Northrop Grumman and the aviation industry. ... I have attached as Appendix A the complete PEST Analysis broken into Past, Present and Future sections. Findings _ PAST PEST Analysis (1997-2002) During the past 5 years air travel has changed dramatically. ... CURRENT PEST Analysis (2003) Opinion currently varies on where the aviation industry currently is. ... Economic Three years ago Litton Aero Products were taken over by Northrop Grumman. ... (See Appendix B) Northrop(Litton) have made all the major steps in Commercial Airline Navigation System technology over the past 25 years. ... FUTURE PEST Analysis (2004 – 2014) The future of commercial aircraft and airline operations is very difficult to predict. ... In the past at Litton/Northrop employees got paid a reasonable wage and enjoyed working in the high paced dynamic environment. ... STRATEGIES Past – 2002 Litton/Northrops strategy in the past was to provide a superior customer service and to maintain systems to a very high standard with minimum cost to the company. ... Litton Aero Products had always outsourced its manufacturing until the LTN-101 Airbus ADIRS system was developed and it learnt many lessons about manufacturing and production strategies during this period. The manufacturing of the Airbus LTN-101 system was a learning experience which gave Litton/Northrop the opportunity to try new methods of manufacturing and quality control. ... A number of new systems were put in place by customer delivery and quality requirements and Litton had to adapt to meet these challenges.