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Using SWOT During Times of Economic Uncertainty

Six Disciplines

How to start? Begin by doing a SWOT Analysis. SWOT is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in your business. The aim of any SWOT analysis is to identify the key internal and external factors that are important to achieving your strategy.

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Using SWOT During Times of Economic Uncertainty

Six Disciplines

How to start? Begin by doing a SWOT Analysis. SWOT is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in your business. The aim of any SWOT analysis is to identify the key internal and external factors that are important to achieving your strategy.

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NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Strategic Planning

Mike Cardus

Working with companies and developing strategic plans everyone seems to feel that the default method is a SWOT analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. For example ‘Communication between sales and production’ or ‘More knowledge of how to use our internal knowledge management system’. NOISE Analysis.

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Five whats and a how – solution-focused method to make team progress

Mike Cardus

AND you need Five Whats and a How to catalyze innovation. I will share a brief walkthrough into how we went from the five whys to create five whats and a how. . A way to identify current conditions, I have my NOISEanalysis , which is an alternative to SWOT to say what the existing strengths of the project are?

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Favorites of 2012: Team Building & Leadership activities / simulations

Mike Cardus

These variations all focus on creating better teams that are able to work together to solve problems and innovate solutions. NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. How to Restore or Improve Trust on a Team. When planning determining what we want to have happen and understanding the road-blocks are necessary. Pre-Animate.

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Employee empowerment and motivation are board level (strategic) issues

Chartered Management Institute

In the challenging business environment of 2011, it will be even more important for a success of any organisation to find a way how to motivate its employees to release their full potentials. Early Warning. You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

How to apply the model. 1) Analyze your SWOT. SWOT analysis. Improvement and Innovation. 19) Celebrate innovation. Guest post by Luciana Paulise, see part 1 of these thoughts: Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. 14 Deming principles. 20 SME Steps. Diagnosis (Internal Value + Context).

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