The purpose of this case study analysis is to develop students’ skills in both theory and application as it applies to the learning outcomes of GB500, Business Perspectives. This will enable students to apply business perspective theories and concepts relating to a ‘real world’ business scenario.  Through this case study, students will be researching and deliberating on a macro-environmental factor that has impacted severely on an Australian company, Holden.  
Scenario:  “Australians love their cars. And for much of the past six decades the cars they've loved most have been home-grown. In that time, Australia has been one of a select group of countries with the capacity to design, engineer and build its own cars. For 60 years that capacity has been a cornerstone of the country's industrial capacity.  Now all that is about to change.  
When the new Coalition Government made it clear it wasn't prepared to spend more money assisting the car industry, the big manufacturers Holden and Toyota said goodbye”            (Long, S and Hichens, C 2014)             As an individual assignment, students are required to use a case study to prepare a 1500 word report addressing the following:   
A. Explain how external environmental scanning could have alerted Holden to change its business strategies and avoid business closure in Australia?  
B. Using readings from week 2 (“critical reflection”), demonstrate how critical reflection can bring forth managerial foresight for Holden to remain competitive in their business in Australia.  
C. Critically analyse how innovative thinking and entrepreneurial orientation could have saved the Holden Manufacturing Group

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