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A standard marketing tool for market and especially company profiling and intelligence, SWOT analysis has proven extremely effective as a quick yet substantial tool to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of companies, markets and products or services in any given market place.
Market & competitive intelligence knows and uses SWOT analysis as a standard analysis instrument and base of major decisions even before utilizing other analysis methods as this analysis or profiling might provide a very early indication of which further intelligence analysis tools to derive in general and for further analysis steps.
What is SWOT analysis?
SWOT definition by Vernon Prior (The Language of Business Intelligence): “SWOT analysis is the evaluation of available Information concerning the Business environment in order to identify internal strengths and weaknesses, and external Threats and Opportunities.
SWOT analysis is also known as Situational analysis and, when applied to competitors, as Competitor profiling.”
SWOT analysis is otherwise also defined as a structured approach to evaluating the strategic position of a business by identifying its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Objective
SWOT goals should be to identify a company’s strengths that the company can use to make use of opportunities in the operating environment and to become aware of that company’s or product’s weaknesses and what threats to the operations can be found in the market and competitive environment.
Internal