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SWOT Analysis

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What is SWOT…..
Stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
SWOT YOU……..
You are required to carry out a SWOT analysis of yourself
You need to explain what are your……
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats

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SWOT
A method for analysing a business, and its environment
Often used in strategic planning
Looks at……
Internal strengths
Internal weaknesses
Opportunities in the external environment
Threats in the external environment

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SWOT Analysis aims to discover…
What the business does better than the competition
What competitors do better
Whether it is making the most of the opportunities
available
How a business should respond to changes in its
external environment

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SWOT Grid
STRENGTHS
(internal)
WEAKNESSES
(internal)
OPPORTUNITIES
(external)
THREATS
(external)

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S…..
For example: A strength could be:
Your specialist marketing expertise.
A new, innovative product or service.
Location of your business.
Quality processes and procedures.
Any other aspect of your business that
adds value to your product or service.

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W…..
A weakness could be:
Lack of marketing expertise.
Undifferentiated products or services (i.e. in relation to
your competitors).
Location of your business.
Poor quality goods or services.
Damaged reputation.

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O…….
. An opportunity could be:
A developing market such as the Internet.
Mergers, joint ventures or strategic alliances.
Moving into new market segments that offer improved
profits.
A new international market.
A market vacated by an ineffective competitor.

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T…..
. A threat could be:
A new competitor in your home market.
Price wars with competitors.
A competitor has a new, innovative product or service.
Competitors have superior access to channels of
distribution.
Taxation is introduced on your product or service.

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Issues that could
affect the Businesses
You are required to produce a SWOT analysis
Once you have done this you need to decided what
issues would be an opportunity or a threat to
businesses and what type.