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SWOT Analysis

Evaluate your internal Strengths and Weaknesses and external Opportunities and Threats against your objective

Start with a Blank Project

Create lists of items, and manage your project, your way

Template Library - Strategy

Organization Mission

Get your organization in alignment. Come together to determine and solidify your purpose, vision, plan, and core values. Inspired by Jim Collins Core Ideology from his best selling book, Built to Last. Use this collaborative template to get your whole team involved in your company mission and values. Next, what is your current situation when it comes to this mission. Perform a SWOT Analysis.

Team Mission

Map out your teams purpose, vision, plan, and core values. Inspired by Jim Collins Core Ideology from his best selling book, Built to Last. Use this collaborative template to get the most of your role. Next, what is your current situation when it comes to this mission. Perform a SWOT Analysis.

Creating Your Company Values

A simple exercise to explore your company values.

Hedgehog

The fox knows many things, able to devise a myriad of complex strategies to sneak attack upon hedgehog. The hedgehog knows one big thing, rolling up into a perfect little ball thus becoming a sphere of sharp spikes in all directions. The hedgehog always wins despite the different tactics the fox uses.

Lafley and Martin’s Five-Step Strategy Model

P&G CEO A.G. Lafley's leveraged a strategic framework to make strategy simple. "What Roger and I tried to do was to distill a simple but powerful approach to strategy that the two of us have seen work in 75 years of experience ... We tried to demystify this whole thing called business, distill it down to five choices for winning." "In order to be sustainable, an organization must seek to win in a particular place and in a particular way, translating the abstract happy future into defined winning aspirations." from the book the Game Changer.

Mission Statement Test - checklist

After completing your Purpose, Vision, Plan, and Values, test your statements with these series of questions below. This framework references Jim Collins approach from the book Built to Last.

PESTLE Analysis

Analyze your Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental factors to stay ahead. A PESTLE Analysis is often used in conjunction with a SWOT Analysis to provide a macro look at external factors impacting a business objective. This includes looking at political, economic, social/cultural, and technological factors that could have impact on your business objectives. This includes looking at exchange rates, cultural norms, upcoming elections, population growth rates, and many more.

Porter's Five Forces

A framework for understanding the forces that shape competition within an industry. The five-forces perspective is associated with its originator, Michael E. Porter of Harvard University. This framework was first published in Harvard Business Review in 1979.

SWOT Analysis (modern colors)

Simple, crisp, SWOT Analysis template.

SWOT Plan

The SWOT Plan is a SWOT Analysis that includes an action oriented strategic plan. It combines your mission, quarterly goals, key metrics, swot analysis, and 5yr priorities onto a single page. This magical plan brings strategy to life and leads to teams achieving outstanding outcomes.

Three Horizons of Growth

The three horizons framework as originally featured in The Alchemy of Growth in 1999, and provides a structure for companies to assess potential opportunities for growth without neglecting their present day performance.

WHY Analysis

Simon Sinek's Ted Talk on "Starting with Why" has become a widely acclaimed talk on "purpose". It starts with asking yourself "Why do we do it", "How do we do it", "What do we do?". It's a wonderful way to focus on what important and what truly rallies your team and then harness with inherent purpose to drive the how and the what.