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Strategic Planning with the SWOT Analysis - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunties, Threats Framework
SWOT Analysis - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunties, Threats is a technique that enables better strategic planning in business.
SWOT is a simple but powerful framework for assessing internal and external market dynamics. A SWOT analysis must first start with defining a desired end state or objective. A SWOT analysis may be incorporated into the strategic planning model.
SWOT is defined as follows:
- Strengths: attributes of the person or company that are helpful to achieving the objective.
- Weaknesses: attributes of the person or company that are harmful to achieving the objective.
- Opportunities: external conditions that are helpful to achieving the objective.
- Threats: external conditions which could do damage to the business's performance.
Other Strategic Planning Frameworks
4P's Marketing Mix - Seven S (7S) Management Framework - AIDA - Attention, Interest, Desire, Action - Buying Process - Ansoff's Matrix - Product-Market Growth Matrix - Expansion Strategy - BCG Growth-Share Matrix - Bass Diffusion Model - Product Adoption and Innovation - Blue Ocean Strategy - Choice Model for Decision-Making Behavior - Competitive Advantage - Core Competence - Collective Learning in the Organization - Cost-Benefit Analysis - Delta Model - ERG (Existence, Relatedness, Growth) Theory of Motivation - Experience Curve - Framing Effect on Psychology and Marketing - GE (McKinsey) Matrix - Growth Phases - Predicting Industry Evolution and Change - OODA Loop - Observe, Orient, Decide, Act - PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) - The Deming Cycle - PEST Analysis - Political, Economical, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal Factors - Perceptual Mapping - Brand Marketing - Porter's Five Forces - Product and Marketing Positioning - Product Lifecycle (Industry Lifecycle) - Root Cause Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunties, Threats - Technology Adoption Curve - Value Chain -