1. Planning
Workshops
MPA 208

2. Planning workshops will give you insights to contribu
crafting your roadmap to your organization’s future.
various exercises will add to your planning efforts an
ensure proper analysis, adequate formulation and su
execution.
Our workshops serve as e
to give you an opportunit
strategically and to exerci
strategic management m

3. SWOT
• Our 1st workshop session requires you to consider your
external and internal factors, evaluate what and where you
currently are and where you hope to be, what you hope to
become; consider alternate futures, various strategic intents
and goals and different means in attaining the decided upon
intent and goals; recognize resource limitations (including
facilities, equipment, supplies, time, information, money,
capabilities, recognize uncertainties and therefore formulate
contingencies; prioritize options so that whatever actions you
take are likely to yield the most optimal results and outcomes.
The results and outcomes most consistent with and
supportive of your organization’s mission and vision.

4. What is SWOT Analysis?
SWOT Analysis is a technique founded by Albert Humphrey who led a research
project at Stanford University in the 1960s and 1970s.
The acronym ‘SWOT’ stands for:
S W
O T

5. What is SWOT Analysis?
SWOT Analysis enables a
group/individual to
handle everyday problems
and look at traditional
strategies from a new
perspective.
It is used as
framework
for organizing
and using
data and
information
gained from
situation
analysis of
internal and
external
environment.
SWOT Analysis is a
planning tool used to
understand Strengths,
Weaknesses,
Opportunities and
Threats involved in a
project/business.
SWOT

6. Strengths
S W
O T
W
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• Characteristics of the business or
team that give it an advantage
over others in the industry.
• Positive, tangible and intangible
attributes, internal to an
organization.
• Beneficial aspects of the
organization or the capabilities of
an organization, which includes
human competencies, process
capabilities, financial resources,
products and services, customer
goodwill and brand loyalty.

7. Strengths
W
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S Some of the examples of organizational
strengths are as follows:
• Abundant financial resources
• Established brand name
• Economies of scale
• Lower production costs
• Superior management
• Excellent marketing skills
• Good supply chain distribution
• Great Employee commitment

8. Weaknesses
S W
O T
S
O T
• Characteristics that place
the organization at a
disadvantage relative to
others.
• Detract the organization
from its ability to attain the
core goal and influence its
growth.
• Factors which do not meet
the standards set in the
organization.

9. S
W
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T
Weaknesses
S
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T
W
Some of the examples of organizational
weaknesses are as follows:
• Limited financial resources
• Low R & D Budget
• Narrow product line
• Weak supply chain distribution
• Higher production costs
• Obsolete or Out-of-date
products/technology
• Poor market image
• Poor marketing skills
• Weak management skills
• Under-trained employees

10. Opportunities
S W
O T
S W
T
Opportunities are:
• Chances to make greater profits in the
environment.
• External attractive factors that
represent the reason for an
organization to exist and develop.
• Condition of the environment that
benefits the organization in planning
and executing strategies that enable it
to become more profitable.
Organization should be careful and recognize the
opportunities and grasp them whenever they arise.
Opportunities may arise from market, competition,
industry/government and technology.

11. Opportunities
S
W
O
T
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O
Some of the examples of opportunities
for an organization are as follows:
• Rapid market growth
• Complacent rival firms
• Changing customer needs/tastes
• New uses discovered for existing
product
• Economic boom,
• Government deregulation
• Decline in demand for a substitute
product

12. Threats
S W
O T
S W
O
Threats are:
• External elements in the environment
that could cause trouble for the
business.
• External factors, beyond an
organization’s control, which could
place the organization’s mission or
operation at risk.
• Conditions in external environment
that jeopardize the reliability and
profitability of the organization’s
business.
Threats compound the vulnerability when
they relate to the weaknesses. Threats are
uncontrollable. When a threat comes, the
stability and survival can be at stake.

13. Threats
S
W
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T
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W
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T
Some of the examples of threats for an
organization are as follows:
• Entry of foreign competitors
• Introduction of new substitute
products
• Decline in product life cycle
• Changing customer needs/tastes
• New strategies adopted by rival
firms
• Increased government regulation
• Economic slowdown

14. Prepare a SWOT and TOWS
analysis of your agency
due February 14

15. SWOT & TOWS