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Peek Inside Your Competitor's Business
What are your rivals' future plans? Will they launch new products? How profitable are they? Find out — the legal way — with our step-by-step guide to competitive research techniques.Intelligence gathering isn't just for Cold War-era spies. You can use investigative research to find out what your competitors are up...
Tags: SWOT Analysis, Marketing, BNET Feature Package, Competitive Intelligence, Competitive Strategy, Sales Strategy, Andrew Mager, Marketing Research, Competitor, Productivity
Articles 2008-02-19
Spotting New Opportunities for Your Business
The pace of change in the business world can often seem bewilderingly fast. Most businesses operate in an environment that spurs this pace. It's constantly changing due to a variety of factors: new competitors who bring fresh ideas to a market, changes in your customers needs and preferences, your sales...
Tags: Marketing research, BNET Editorial, sales channel, analysis, SWOT analysis, sales, small business, marketing, environment
Articles 2007-10-24
Conducting a SWOT Analysis
SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) is a well-established means of thinking critically about a business, its resources, and its environment. Doing an analysis of this type is a good way to assess a business and its markets; it can also help potential investors decide whether their investment dollars...
Tags: benefit, BNET Editorial, customer service, financial, leader, marketing, merger, strategic thinking, supplier, SWOT analysis, Marketing research, environment, analysis
Articles 2007-07-03
How to Gather Competitive Research
To formulate an effective corporate strategy, it's essential to understand two basic questions: What is your company doing, and what are your competitors doing? Establish the Strategic Problem Goal: Define your question before you begin the search for answers. Developing a competitive strategy...
Tags: Marketing Research, Food & Beverage, Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Manufacturing, Management, competitive strategy, competitive intelligence, marketing, SWOT analysis, competitor, rival, data, product, information, question, S&P, Hoover, Crash Course
Articles 2007-03-28
Strategy at Its Best
Does your company's game plan need an update? Our top downloaded strategy articles can help you increase your tactical wisdom. The Seven Deadly Sins of Strategy Source: Strategic Decisions Group What strategic sins is your company making? Are you in danger of...
Tags: competitive intelligence, market research, SWOT analysis, Porter Five Forces, Top 5, competitive analysis, Five Forces, Michael Porter, SWOT, strategic analysis, Marketing Research, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management, BNET Staff, strategy
Articles 2007-03-15
Business Plans Develop From Strategic Planning, SWOT Analysis and Includes Mission Statements and Vision Statement
This article talks about graphic model, which adds SWOT analysis, strategic planning, vision statement, mission statements and business plans. Trusting the organization to grow and develop in a haphazard fashion is taking a large chance on the future. Better to have at least some general ideas of where one wishes...
Tags: Mission Statement, Vision, Vision Statement, Adams Six Sigma, Guidance Document, Swot analysis, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Marketing Research, Marketing, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Strategic Business Planning: Developing Your Business Plan
The article tries to establish the importance of a strategic plan and the attempts have been made to judge its utility from different point of views. The strategic plan should be made following some basic rules which are given in the article. The discipline of putting the plan in writing...
Tags: Business Planning, Financial, Zeromillion.com, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Operational Planning, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Marketing, Business Operations, Finance, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
SWOT Analysis
A scan of the internal and external environment is an important part of the strategic planning process. Environmental factors internal to the firm usually can be classified as strengths or weaknesses, and those external to the firm can be classified as opportunities or threats. Such an analysis of the strategic...
Tags: Environment, Quick MBA.com, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
SWOT Analysis
SWOT analysis is a simple framework for generating strategic alternatives from a situation analysis. It is applicable to either the corporate level or the business unit level and frequently appears in marketing plans. SWOT sometimes referred to as TOWS stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. The General Electric Growth...
Tags: Analysis, SWOT Framework, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
SWOT Team: How Do You Pitch Quality?
In the age-old quality-versus-cost race, quality—slow and sure—sets the pace. Cost bursts ahead regularly with discounts, exclusive offers, and promises to save time. Sometimes it is difficult to tell who will win. This article discusses various issues pertaining to this concept. Some of these issues are identifying communication gaps; building...
Tags: MarketingProfs, Swot analysis, Productivity, Business Structures, Marketing Research, Marketing, Finance
White papers 2003-11-04
The Process Of Strategic Planning: SWOT Analysis
Strategic Planning pays dividends to companies when approached in a disciplined process with top-down support and bottom-up participation. The article describes one proven, tested process for effective strategic planning. SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis is a valuable, proven effective tool to use in the discovery and evaluation stage...
Tags: Business Development Index, Swot analysis, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Marketing Research, Marketing, Management
White papers 2002-01-01
SWOT Analysis
The slide explains SWOT analysis. The term SWOT means Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats. It is used in order to evaluate the performance of different companies. The strengths include the available right tools or resources, unique selling proposition etc. On the other hand, weakness points out the things that are...
Tags: University Of Michigan, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing
Presentations 2001-05-18
Doing A SWOT Analysis For Your Internet Marketing Plan
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats—this is what a SWOT analysis is all about. This tool could be useful to provide a general or detailed snapshot of a company's health. The following article illustrates with an example as how a SWOT analysis help the company determine the areas it is succeeding...
Tags: Internet Marketing, Ralph F. Wilson, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Internet, Marketing
White papers 2000-03-13
SWOT Analysis: Like A Snapshot - But Not A Tool For The Family Photographer
The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats SWOT Analysis is used to identify the threats and opportunities prevalent in the organization's external environment. It also identifies the inherent strengths and weaknesses present in the organization. In this way, the SWOT Analysis provides the basis for devising suitable strategies to exploit the...
Tags: Tool, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers
SWOT Does Not Need To Be Recalled: It Needs To Be Enhanced - Description Of The Problem - I
While everyone is talking about the SWOT analysis, however there are quiet a few glitches that many a few organizations come across. This article takes a close look at the issues of validity and reliability of a crucial tool of SWOT. This paper looks at the misconceptions held about the...
Tags: Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2000-01-11
SWOT Does Not Need To Be Recalled: It Needs To Be Enhanced - Fundamentals of Enhancement -II
This article highlights six relevant rules by a SECURE model of the analytical process. Also, various quality aspects are discussed in the concluding part of this paper. The six rules according to the author are—Define markets' structure, Scan all your environment, Define changes clearly, Understand implications of changes, Review inventories...
Tags: University Of West Georgia, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2001-01-01
SWOT Analysis: Understanding Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities And Threats
This is an analytical article on the SWOT analysis stating briefly on the purpose of this tool and the possible impact on an organization. It also suggests a few essential points to any organization while using the SWOT analysis. SWOT analysis is a framework for analyzing the strengths and weaknesses,...
Tags: Mind Tools, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
SWOT Analysis
This article gives a clear definition of SWOT analysis and the elements that make SWOT analysis effective. The author further gives details on the changes that SWOT analysis could make in competitive, socio-cultural, political & legal and internal organizational environments. In addition, it has been mentioned that it is not...
Tags: University Of St. Francis, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
SWOT Analysis - A Structured Way To Plan
Apart from defining the SWOT analysis, this article devices action plans and outlines the steps to develop a strategic plan with an example. To sum up, the article reiterates that an effective program improvement can only be assured if its preceded by thorough data collection, analysis and planning. ...
Tags: America, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Doing A SWOT Analysis
This article discusses SWOT analysis, which plays a very crucial role in evaluating the organization. The goals of a SWOT analysis are to identify strategies that fit a firm's resources, capabilities to its external environment and to generate alternatives that apply a company's strengths to exploit opportunities and counter threats....
Tags: San Jose State University, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2002-09-21
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