SWOT Analysis
SWOT Analysis is a simple but powerful framework for analyzing your organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Includes template. Access on-demand resources, expert videos by becoming a Mind Tools member now!
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Porter’s Five Forces – The Framework Explained
Porter's Five Forces allows you to assess the strength of your competitive position in a market and identify ways to boost your profitability. Learn how to use the framework through examples and a downloadable template.
Beware of These 5 Leadership Pitfalls of Growth Transformations
Why do most growth transformations fail? Discover the leadership missteps to avoid, backed by real case studies from major international organizations.
Entering New Markets: Worksheet
A practical worksheet for CEOs and senior leaders to plan, track and execute successful market entry strategies with alignment, agility, and cultural awareness.
Building Capability for Transformation
Capability-building powers transformation. Learn how to align talent, systems, and strategy for lasting change, and the leadership skills needed to make it happen.
What Are Porter’s Five Forces?
Use Porter's Five Forces to discover more about your competitive power in this short video.
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Pitfalls of Porter’s Five Forces
Porter's Five Forces is a vital tool for understanding competitive pressures within an industry. But it has drawbacks and should be used with other tools.
Critical Success Factors
Based on Daniel and Rockart's theories, Critical Success Factors help you to get to the heart of what your organization must do to be successful.
How To Monitor The Risks To Your Strategy
One of the major reasons why strategies fail to meet their objectives is the mismanagement of risk. Here we outline a risk management process that will help ease some of the tension of dealing with the unknown.
Environmental Analysis
Most organisations work within a business environment of constantly changing forces that impact on their overall strategic direction. This article examines these internal and external environmental forces in detail, and introduces some useful analytical tools.
An Overview of Developing Strategy
This article offers an overview of the entire process of developing strategy, providing a summary of the three stages: analysis, options and selection, and implementation.
Stage (Not Age)
Professor and tech mentor Susan Wilner Golden discusses multigenerational workplaces, and designing products for "the Most Dynamic Market in the World."