SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis is a commonly used and an important technique for analyzing internal and external environments in order to provide a systematic approach and support for a decision making. SWOT is criticized mostly for considering only qualitative examination of environmental factors, no priority for various factors and strategies, and no vaguenes...

This note clarifies two important issues related to ocean observations of sea-surface height (SSH) by SWOT. The analysis presented here is intended to supplement the discussion in the SWOT science requirements document, the onboard processing document, and the mission performance and error budget document. The first issue is the question of how the raw SWOT data will be filtered by the onboard ...

T HERE ARE VARIOUS FRAMEWORKS and approaches used in the analysis of a company’s strategic position. One of the most straightforward is the SWOT analysis, SWOT being an acronym for “strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats”. The occasions to investigate empirically the use of such a tool are comparatively rare. This article presents the findings of one such opportunity, being based on t...

This paper proposes an integrated framework for analysis of an electricity supply chain using an integrated SWOT-fuzzy TOPSIS methodology combined with Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The paper is divided into twomain sections. In the firstmain section, the integrated framework comprising a qualitative framework and a quantitative framework is presented. In the qualitative framework, a genera...

Supplier selection is a multi criteria decision-making problem that comprises tangible and intangible factors. The majority of previous supplier selection techniques do not consider strategic perspective. Besides, uncertainty is one of the most important obstacles in supplier selection. In this paper, quantified SWOT is applied in the context of supplier selection for the first time. SWOT (Stre...

The purpose of this paper is to map SWOT analysis to the problem familiar and knowledge familiar dimensions and meet the challenge of knowing little about the problem and lacking of related knowledge by integrating the peripheral vision. In the SWOT analysis from knowledge point of view, organizations can narrow the internal and external gap in order to retain competitive advantage and diminish...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to help domestic private enterprises (DPEs) identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) in developing infrastructure projects in China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on extensive literature reviews coupled with brainstorming and interviews methodologies to compile a list of SWOT factors for DPEs in developing inf...

Although biomedical physicists provide educational services to the healthcare professions in the majority of universities in Europe, their precise role with respect to the education of the healthcare professions has not been studied systematically. To address this issue we are conducting a research project to produce a strategic development model for the role using the well-established SWOT (St...

Successful strategic decisions provide the appropriate operational actions for the right markets at the correct time. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis is a generally used tool which examines strengths and weaknesses of organization or industry together with opportunities and threats of the marketplace environment. SWOT framework provides the basic outline in whic...