Learn how to identify and analyse a business's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats through a SWOT analysis and apply this understanding to real-world scenarios.
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Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT).
A SWOT analysis helps a business understand how it's doing compared to other businesses. It shows their strengths (what they’re good at) and weaknesses (what they need to improve). This can help them decide how to market their product or make changes to their business model (the way the business runs).
It’s important for businesses to do this because if they don’t, they could waste money and time on things that don’t work.
McDonald's is one of the most popular food chains in the world. If we analyse it using the SWOT model.
Imagine you're starting a superhero-themed cafe. You need to run through the SWOT analysis of this business idea.