Monday 13 September 2010

Marketing vocabulary of the week: 'SWOT analysis'

A SWOT analysis is a tool for evaluating the internal factors (strengths and weaknesses) and the external factors (opportunities and threats) that an organisation faces.

Example usage (extract from an email from a Marketing Manager to his team, setting tasks for the writing of a company marketing plan):

"Scott and Jessica, can you take responsibility for the SWOT analysis? You’ll also need to do SWOTs for our main competitors."

(Taken from Cambridge English for Marketing, Unit 2 [The marketing plan 1: audit and objectives])

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