{"id":34682,"date":"2023-09-27T01:38:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T01:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/business-finance-management-wk-3-apply-signature-assignment-modified-swot-analysis\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T01:38:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T01:38:35","slug":"business-finance-management-wk-3-apply-signature-assignment-modified-swot-analysis","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/business-finance-management-wk-3-apply-signature-assignment-modified-swot-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Business  Finance &#8211; Management Wk 3 &#8211; Apply: Signature Assignment: Modified SWOT Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Content<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Week#3 assignment<br \/>\nSuccessful businesses regularly analyze their processes to ensure they\u2019re operating as efficiently as possible and maintaining their competitive advantages. Although you can assess a company in many ways, a common technique is the SWOT analysis. In this assignment, you will practice using a SWOT analysis to understand better the factors involved in making business decisions that promote sustainable competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Select<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>research&nbsp;<\/strong>a company from the 2019 Fortune 500 list that demonstrates a sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evaluate&nbsp;<\/strong>the selected company\u2019s sustainable competitive advantage using the SWOT analysis technique.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Write&nbsp;<\/strong>a 700- to 1,050-word modified SWOT analysis that includes the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An introduction with a detailed description of the company<\/li>\n<li>A SWOT analysis diagram that includes strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats<\/li>\n<li>An evaluation of how specific internal factors (strengths and\/or weaknesses) support and\/or promote a competitive advantage; examples may include:<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7 Financial, physical, or human resources<br \/>\n\u00b7 Access to natural resources, trademarks, patents, or copyrights<br \/>\n\u00b7 Current processes (employee programs or software systems)\n<\/li>\n<li>An evaluation of how specific external factors (opportunities and\/or threats) support and\/or promote a competitive advantage; examples may include:<\/li>\n<li>\u00b7 Market trends (new products or technology advancements)<br \/>\n\u00b7 Economic trends (local and\/or global)<br \/>\n\u00b7 Demographics<br \/>\n\u00b7 Regulations (political, environmental, or economic)\n<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion with an evaluation of how the company has retained its competitive advantage<\/li>\n<li><strong>Include<\/strong>&nbsp;APA-formatted in-text citations and a reference page with at least 2 sources.&nbsp;<em>Note<\/em>: You may include your textbook as 1 of the sources.\n<p>\n<strong>Submit<\/strong>&nbsp;your assignment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content Week#3 assignment Successful businesses regularly analyze their processes to ensure they\u2019re operating as efficiently as possible and maintaining their competitive advantages. Although you can assess a company in many ways, a common technique is the SWOT analysis. In this assignment, you will practice using a SWOT analysis to understand better the factors involved in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[239],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=34682"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=34682"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=34682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}