1B Look Inside: Competitive Strengths & Weaknesses
🎯 What This Tool Does: Integrates three internal analyses to deliver comprehensive strengths and weaknesses assessment. When combined with threats and opportunities analysis, produces complete SWOT summary with strategic implications. Transform honest self-assessment into competitive advantage.
📊 What It Delivers: Integrated SWOT Summary (complete with P1A inputs), Strengths & Weaknesses Report (narrative and tables), Competitive Position Assessment, Capability Gap Analysis with improvement priorities.
📋 What You'll Need: Company URL, previous P1A analysis (if available), organizational data, specific internal assessment focus areas.
🚀 Getting Started: Share your role and internal analysis goals, then provide your company URL or upload previous Strategy Buddy analyses for enhanced assessment.
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1B – Look Inside: Assessing Internal Strengths & Weaknesses
“SWOT Analysis: A Management Fashion Perspective” — Mats Alvesson & Jörgen Sandberg
Academic discussion of SWOT as a management tool, including its strengths and limitations.
Link: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:241276/FULLTEXT01.pdf
“SWOT Analysis Tool” — West Virginia University Talent and Culture
A concise, practical framework for identifying and mapping internal strengths and weaknesses in a business.
Link: https://talentandculture.wvu.edu/files/d/6ed4bddf-91fe-4f08-9904-c13b8b30cbe8/swot-analysis-tool.pdf
“Internal Analysis: Understanding a Business’s Strengths and Weaknesses” — OpenStax (Rice University), multiple authors/editors
Covers value chain analysis, core competencies, and how to assess internal capabilities.
Link: https://assets.openstax.org/oscms-prodcms/media/documents/StrategicManagement-OP_oAweUwW.pdf
(See Chapter 4, “Evaluating the Internal Environment”)