Professional SWOT Scanner

What Are SWOT Scanners?

SWOT Scanners are tools or frameworks designed to systematically assess the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of a business, project, or team. These scanners help organizations gather and analyze data to make informed decisions. By leveraging a structured approach, SWOT Scanners enable users to identify internal capabilities and external challenges, supporting strategic planning and competitive positioning.

What Is TPM SWOT Scanner?

Our SWOT Scanner is designed to integrate the human being dimension in the heart of the diagnosis. Also, our scanner focuses on diagnosing the human being, function with its operation and strategy, also positioning the function with the whole organization as strategic business partner.

Our SWOT Scanner takes you through a self-assessment questionnaire, which diagnoses your current status and root causes, “either positive or negative,” and then draws a Development Action; such behavioral mapping steps will take you to the next level in growth and unlock the potential of your business leadership.

How to Use Our Scanner

For individual uses:

Think thoughtfully about the question and whether you have faced a similar situation or not. It’s normal to find yourself questioned about a situation that you have never experienced, so you can answer ‘not having any, partially not for some behaviors’ in some cases; just explain the current status as it is.
State the root causes, pause for a moment, and think of the direct cause and root of that direct cause in order to find the “root,” and then build the development action on it.
Pay attention to the root’s variations, discrepancies, or inconsistencies; they usually tell you what to change, ‘the development action.’
Once you have completed the questionnaire and implemented the development actions, those development actions will represent a set target to be achieved.
Review and develop the actions continuously until the change becomes an automatic and dynamic process in your personality.

For business uses:

A collective exercise can be made in workshops.
Sessions need to be led by senior leaders in your business.
Answers should be a list of common trends in current status, and root causes should be analyzed. Then, a tough ranking should be made to scale the criticality/priority of the development action that needs to be drawn up in an action plan.
Prioritizing should consider strategic business targets and how the prioritized development actions will impact the targets.
Senior leaders then should embed changes in the development plans of their teams.
Development plans shall include team leaders and above.
Link the agreed development actions/initiatives with operational KPIs.
Each development action/initiative can be rated from 5 points as high to 1 point as low, then those initiatives shall be allocated a % part of your leader’s KPIs.
Reward the results out of the allocated % from the leader’s bonus.

Implementation Steps

Define Your Business Goals

Before you start, it’s crucial to define WHY you want to do a SWOT. Make sure the goal is clear and the people involved understand the situation you are diagnosing.

Search & Gather Data

Next, initiate your SWOT diagnoses by gathering rich data. Deep dive into market research, financial reports, customer feedback, and competitor diagnosis. This step lays the groundwork by providing a clear picture of your internal capabilities and the external environment.

Engage Team and Stakeholders

Approach horizontally managerial teams and stakeholders from across the organization. This inclusive approach ensures a variety of perspectives and expertise are considered, enriching the diagnosis with insights from different facets of the business.

Specify What’s Essential (and What’s Not!)

Dive through the gathered data and spot the impactful strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It’s crucial to differentiate between critical forces that can significantly impact the business and the less impactful forces. This prioritization helps to capitalize on areas that truly make an impact.

Diagnose and Strategize

With the critical forces identified, diagnose how they interact and affect your business. Use this diagnosis to create initiatives that leverage strengths and opportunities, improve weaknesses, and mitigate potential threatening risks.

Once you have completed your diagnosis, sum it up on one page. The most common way to present a SWOT Diagnosis is as follows:

Leveraging the insights from your SWOT diagnosis, it’s time to draft a practical initiatives plan. This includes setting clear, actionable goals based on your identified strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Specify tasks, assign responsibilities to stakeholders, and set deadlines. The goal is to transform strategic insights into tangible results.

Implement and Monitor

With your initiative plan in hand, the next step is implementation. This stage is about bringing your plan to life, mobilizing resources, and guiding your team towards achieving the set objectives and KPIs. Monitoring progress is equally important, allowing you to track performance and progress against goals and make necessary adjustments.

Regular Review and Adaptation

The business landscape is constantly changing, making it important to regularly review and update your SWOT diagnosis and initiatives plan. This ongoing review process ensures your strategies remain critical and responsive to new challenges and opportunities that arise.

Remember, a SWOT diagnosis is a starting point for strategic planning. It offers valuable insights but gains true utility when combined with other business planning tools, translated into initiative plans, and continually adapted to the changing business environment. This approach ensures that your strategic planning process is dynamic, relevant, and effective in achieving your business goals.

Using our SWOT Scanner provides most ‘context fit’ Strategic Planning thinking on your business needs which strongly contribute to your ‘workforce efficiency’ and ‘business profitability.’

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