Environmental scanning is simply the process of paying attention to the external environment for factors that may affect your organization's performance, which will need to be addressed in the strategy formulation process. For example, you will pay attention to what your competition is doing and make adjustments to your strategic plan as necessary throughout the process. Continuous implementation is simply implementing parts of the strategy that must take place in order for the next step of the strategy formulation process to be undertaken. The rest of the strategy formulation must be taken in order.