Steps in Planning – Environmental Scanning and SWOC/SWOT
Environmental Scanning and SWOC/SWOT analysis
Assessing the environmental and internal environments of your organization is critical to the success of the planning process. The commitment and time dedicated to analysis and understanding strengths and weaknesses as well as opportunities and threats will help planners craft a strategy to achieve organizational goals and objectives at an optimal level.
As the planner for your organization (selected by you), you will need to present your organization’s external environment to include, but not limited to, forces/trends, key resources, competitors, collaborators), and conduct an analysis of these using the SWOC/SWOT model in your text.
Based on the SWOC/SWOT analysis completed for your organization, propose a set of strategic issues that this organization is facing. Propose and evaluate a set of strategies for the organization.
Describe a process for completing the adoption, ongoing implementation, and evaluation of the strategies/plan that you’ve developed for your organization. Include a copy of what the final plan document (content) would look like.
PART B
This should be different from the previous submission (PART A). This is actually a further analysis and a continuation of what was ordered previously. It should include the following area of analysis;
- Application of the planning concepts using SWOC/SWOT analysis (Planning concepts should be completed & clearly stated; Application to SWOC/SWOT results clear)
- Strategic Issues and Strategies identified Matching SWOC/SWOT (Strategic issues should be presented and aligned with SWOC/SWOT analysis; Issues are clearly emergent from the SWOC in realistic terms)
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