Strategic Plan, Part II: SWOTT Analysis

Conduct an internal and external environmental analysis for your proposed business.

 

Discuss with your Learning Team the forces and trends below that must be taken into consideration while developing a strategic plan. Given today’s business environment and each Learning Team members’ selected business idea, provide a list of the lessons learned from your Learning Team’s discussion for each of the items listed below. Use this discussion to complete this assignment.

 

Create a SWOTT table summarizing your findings. Your environmental analysis should take into account, at a minimum, the following factors. For each factor, identify the one primary strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, and trend, and include it in your table. 

 

•External forces and trends considerations: 

 

oLegal and regulatory

oGlobal

oEconomic

oTechnological

oInnovation

oSocial

oEnvironmental

oCompetitive analysis 

 

•Internal forces and trends considerations:

 

oStrategy

oStructures

oProcesses and systems

oResources

oGoals

oStrategic capabilities

oCulture

oTechnologies

oInnovations

oIntellectual property

oLeadership

 

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word synopsis in which you analyze at least seven of the forces and trends from the list above. Your analysis must include the following:

 

•Include economic as well as legal and regulatory forces and trends. 

•Critique how well the organization adapts to change.

•Analyze the supply chain operations of the organization.

•Identify issues and/or opportunities:

 

oIdentify the major issues and/or opportunities that the company faces based on your analysis above.

oGenerate a hypothesis surrounding each issue and research questions to use for conducting analysis.

oIdentify the circumstances surrounding each issue; classify the circumstances; attribute the importance of each classification; and test the accuracy of the importance for each classification.

 

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.