Business professionals often use strategic planning frameworks such as a SWOT analysis or a five forces analysis in strategic planning initiatives. These frameworks help organizations think about the ...

SWOT and Michael Porter's Five Forces analysis model are both useful tools in strategic planning. While they both help in assessing your company's strengths and weaknesses relative to industry ...

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Porter’s Five Forces model serves as a framework for strategic management. It has served as the North Star of the business industry since Michael E. Porter introduced it in a 1979 issue of the Harvard ...

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The SWOT Analysis framework measures your company’s competitive advantages and disadvantages and plans for improvements and seizing favorable opportunities for your business. In marketing, the SWOT ...

For those of us who never went to business school but found our way into entrepreneurship, it takes practical experience to determine which tools best serve us in the real world. After 10 years of ...

When people begin to take an interest in their investments, most of them believe one of two things about stock analysis and selection; either that it is a kind of mystical art, best performed by those ...