History of SWOT In the 1960’s and 70’s‚ Albert Humphrey is said to have developed this strategic planning tool using data from the top companies in America at the time. A SWOT Analysis looks at the strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats that are relevant to an organization in a new venture. A SWOT Analysis is a tool which allows users to look at the direction a company or organization may wish to move towards in the future. A SWOT Analysis is a useful tool‚ which in conjunction with others
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SWOT analysis and PEST analysis (Notes to accompany templates) The SWOT analysis is an extremely useful tool for understanding and reviewing the company’s position prior to making decisions about future company direction or the implementation of a new business idea. A SWOT analysis can be completed by an individual within the organization (provided they can take an overview of the current situation) but is often best completed in a team or group. The discussion itself is informative‚ and the quality
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Airline Industry SWOT Analysis A SWOT analysis--a review of strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ and threats--is a core requirement of any organization‚ and essential to understand any industry. The volatile airline industry is no exception. While individual airlines each analyze and make decisions based on their own situations‚ there are overall industry similarities that all airlines face‚ with each endeavoring to maximize strengths and opportunities while minimizing weaknesses and threats
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PESTEL analysis Political/Legal Environment Over the past several years‚ there has seen a plethora of patent lawsuits within the smartphone industry. In the highlycompetitive environment‚ manufacturers of handsets have been aggressive in protecting their intellectual properties by suingcompetitors by claiming infringements on patents. For example‚ in March 2010‚ Apple sued HTC for allegedly infringing on20 Apple patents (Weil‚ 2010). Apple also sued Nokia in 2010 for similar patent infringements("Patent
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SWOT Analysis 1 Light Engineering- Faisalabad Pakistan 5.2 Strengths 1. Demand Driven Industry (more than 4000 units for textiles alone) 2. Strong presence in local market 3. Availability of cheaper labor 4. Geographically situated at ideal location (near end users) 5. Most setups are self employed and have simpler management structure 5.2 Weaknesses 1. Obsolete technology machinery and equipment used for manufacturing 2. Availability of raw material and inconsistent raw material
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Study of Indian Software Industry based on SWOT Analysis HUANG Feixue1‚ LI Zhijie 1 Department of Economics‚ Dalian University of Technology‚ Dalian‚ P.R..China‚ 116024 2 Research Institute of Nonlinear Information Technology‚ School of Computer Science and Engineering‚ Dalian Nationalities University‚ Dalian 116600‚ China huangfeixue@yahoo.cn Abstract This study’s objective is to probe of Indian Software Industry issue. The method is formulated as basedon SWOT(Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities
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Table of Contents Introduction 2 PEST analysis of the world 2 Political analysis 2 Economic analysis 2 Social analysis 3 Technological analysis 3 Industry 3 Competitors 4 Issue that caused Woolworth decline and new opportunity 6 SWOT Analysis 7 Strengths 7 Weaknesses 8 Opportunity 8 Threats 9 Issue that caused Woolworth decline and new opportunity 9 Recommendation of new strategies 10 Conclusion 11 References 12 Introduction Woolworths was first opened in Sydney
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EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS: - In the overall growth of the company external environment plays very crucial role. In this external environment there are several forces which affects company’s decision making policies very deeply and political‚ economic‚ social‚ technological‚ environmental and legal are those main forces (according to the pestel model). So we will analyse how these forces affects working and decision making of Maruti Suzuki. POLITICAL FACTORS: - As Maruti Suzuki is an automobile
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e s u s e f u l i n f o r m a t i o n t o t h e g e n e r a l p u b l i c ‚ c a r o w n e r s ‚ d e a l e r s a n d c a r m a n u f a c t u r i n g c o m p a n i e s i n m a n y w a y s . I A Consumer Stimul i b s t r a c t Car Industry: SWOT Analysis Dharmaraj C.‚ Sivasubramanian M. and Clement Sudhahar J. Mr. D h a r m a r a j C . ‚ A s s i s t a n t P r o f e s s o r‚ S c h o o l o f M a n a g e m e n t ‚ K a r u n y a U n i v e r s i t y ‚ C o i m b a t o r e - 6 4 1 1 1 4 ‚ Ta
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Situation analysis and marketing planning. The importance of the internal and external environment and their effect on the development and implementation of marketing planning is crucial and should be highly considered by any organisation wishing to be profitable in the increasingly competitive international marketing arena. Multinational companies that desire to prosper‚ should develop a coherent international marketing plan having‚ as a starting point‚the analysis of the environment. Based on
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