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Some Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Demographic (customer trends - age, lifestyle, education, buying patterns). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Opportunities and Threats.

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Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Demographic (customer trends - age, lifestyle, education, buying patterns). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Opportunities and Threats.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Brown noted a simple fact: Return on equity can be broken down into a three-part equation. Thus Brown not only sowed the seeds of the today's hated silos, he also set three "runaways" in motion.

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