SWOT Analysis to Assess your Organization and its

 SWOT Analysis to Assess your Organization and its 
Environment SWOT stands for strengths, 
weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. 
Strengths and weaknesses are internal factors. Opportunities and threats are 
external factors. 
Instructions
 
You are to complete the following portions of your strategic plan:
 

•	Create a SWOT analysis.

•	Define a strategic management plan, using SWOT analysis. 
o	Identify the (internal) strengths of the organization structure.

•	Identify the (internal) weaknesses of the organization structure.

•	Identify the (external) opportunities.

•	Identify the (external) threats.

•	Match the internal and external environments to attain the organization 
goals.

•	Define a continuous improvement plan that indicates how you will do the 
following: 
o	Measure outcomes

•	Identify service problems

•	Eliminate gaps in performance

•	Identify how your action plans are linked to the following: 
o	Vision statement

•	Mission statement

•	Service strategy

•	Summarize your overall plan, indicating its current limitations and 
implications of your plan for the health care industry as a whole.
 
Keep your SWOT short and simple, and avoid complexity and overanalysis. If it 
helps to organize your thoughts, use a SWOT table.