e-SWOT Analysis
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats Analysis
Technology is forcing changes at a lightening pace in almost every aspect of the economy. This impact on your business can be tremendous. In order to better understand the demands, your organization must re-examine its business fundamentals and key assumptions.
How do you reduce friction in your value chain? Can you increase your competitive capability by building relationships with key/strategic stakeholder's in your current trading community? Where do you expand your existing trading community by offering new products, establishing different distribution channels, entering new lines of business, targeting new customer groups, or acquiring additional sources of supply?
To answer these types of questions, we will help you:
Understand the key issues best practices for the use of technology in your industry
Understand your organizations areas of strength and susceptibility
Articulate a clear vision and strategic direction for business within your organization
Map your community and identify opportunities to enhance your competitive capability and respond to competitive threats
Organize your implementation efforts for maximum speed to market and ROI
Understand the key issues best practices for the use of technology in your industry
Understand your organizations areas of strength and susceptibility
Articulate a clear vision and strategic direction for business within your organization
Map your community and identify opportunities to enhance your competitive capability and respond to competitive threats
Organize your implementation efforts for maximum speed to market and ROI
There are three main phases of this process. They are:
Current Situation Assessment
This is the information-capture phase. During this phase, we gain an understanding of the following key attributes:
Strategic business objectives
Industry drivers and community development
Business, Technical, and Change environments
Organization Culture
Information Flow Methods
The outcome of this phase is a list of key drivers, patterns, trends and best practices as they relate to your company, its community, industry and value chain.
Strategy Development and Analysis
Define your vision and guiding principles
Assess your organizations competitive capability (strengths and opportunities) and susceptibility (weaknesses and threats) within the digital economy
Define an effective business strategy and action plan
Describe possible future scenarios
The outcome of this phase is a strategic plan and action plan that will help position your organization to take advantage of the new digital economy.
Implementation Planning - organizes your implementation efforts based on the size, scope and complexity of the action plan. We focus on a successful and obtainable delivery while minimizing time and cost. In order to accomplish this, the emphasis is on:
Defining and scoping specific projects
Identifying project dependencies, risks, constraints and critical success factors
Defining a detailed implementation plan
Constructing business cases to ensure expected benefits are clearly identified
Current Situation Assessment
This is the information-capture phase. During this phase, we gain an understanding of the following key attributes:
Strategic business objectives
Industry drivers and community development
Business, Technical, and Change environments
Organization Culture
Information Flow Methods
The outcome of this phase is a list of key drivers, patterns, trends and best practices as they relate to your company, its community, industry and value chain.
Strategy Development and Analysis
Define your vision and guiding principles
Assess your organizations competitive capability (strengths and opportunities) and susceptibility (weaknesses and threats) within the digital economy
Define an effective business strategy and action plan
Describe possible future scenarios
The outcome of this phase is a strategic plan and action plan that will help position your organization to take advantage of the new digital economy.
Implementation Planning - organizes your implementation efforts based on the size, scope and complexity of the action plan. We focus on a successful and obtainable delivery while minimizing time and cost. In order to accomplish this, the emphasis is on:
Defining and scoping specific projects
Identifying project dependencies, risks, constraints and critical success factors
Defining a detailed implementation plan
Constructing business cases to ensure expected benefits are clearly identified