Swot and BMC Analysis
Swot and BMC Analysis
Swot and BMC Analysis
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STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
List your
List your
+ advantages
+ disadvantages, limitations
+ unique and low cost resources
What could you improve
+factors mean that you “get the
+factors lose you sales
sale”
THREATS
OPPORTUNITIES
List your
List your
+ external trouble for the
+ chances to improves business
performance
+ obstacles do you face
+good opportunities can you
spot + what your competitors are
doing
SAMPLE SWOT ANALYSIS
POSITIVE NEGATIVE
•What competitive advantages do you have? • Look at this from an internal and external basis:
•What do you do well and naturally? • Do other people seem to perceive weaknesses that you
•What resources do you have access to? do not see?
•What do people see as your strengths? • Are your competitors doing any better than you?
• It is best to be realistic now, and face any unpleasant
•Consider this from your own point of view and from the truths as soon as possible.
point of view of the people you deal with.
•Don't be overly modest. Just being realistic.
•If you are experiencing any trouble with this, try
writing down a list of your characteristics. Some of these
will hopefully be strengths!
strength weakness
• To hold out a SWOT Analysis write down solutions to the • To hold out a SWOT Analysis write down solutions to the
following queries. following queries:
• Where are the good opportunities facing you? • What obstacles did you face?
• What are the interesting trends you are mindful of? • What is your competition doing differently?
• Are the required specs for your job, products or services
• Useful opportunities can arrive from such things as: changing?
• Changes in technology and markets on both a broad and • Is changing technology threatening your status?
narrow scale • Cause you have bad debt or cash-flow problems?
• Changes in government policy related to your line of • Could any of your weaknesses seriously threaten your
business job?
• Changes in social practices, population profiles, life
style alterations, etc. • Bearing out this analysis will often be illuminating - both
• Local Events in terms of pointing out what needs to be managed, and
• A useful approach to looking at opportunities is to look at in putting problems into perspective.
your strengths and ask yourself whether these open up
any opportunities. Instead, attend at your weaknesses and
ask yourself whether you could open up opportunities by
doing away with them.
opportunities threats
BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
• What is BMC?
• Business Model Canvas is a strategic management and
lean startup template for developing new or
documenting existing business models. It is a visual
chart with elements describing a firm's or product's
value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and
finances.
• https://strategyzer.com/canvas/business-model-
canvas
• https://canvanizer.com/new/business-model-canvas
Benefits of BMC
• It helps structures discussions
• It’s fast
• It’s great for developing a portfolio of ideas
• It intuitively makes sense
• The value proposition
The Business Model Canvas
Customer Relationships
Key Partners Key Activities Value Proposition • How do we get, keep and Customers
• Who are our key • What key activities do our • What value do we deliver grow customers? • How do we get, keep and
partners? value propositions require? to the customer? • Which customer grow customers?
• Who are our key • How you do what you do? • Which one of our relationships have we • Which customer
suppliers? customers’ problems are established? relationships have we
• Which key resources are we helping to solve? • How are they integrated established?
we acquiring from our • What bundles of products with the rest of our business • How are they integrated
partners? and services are we model? with the rest of our
• Which key activities do offering to each segment? • How costly are they? business model?
partners perform? • Which customer needs are • How costly are they?
we satisfying?
• What is the minimum Text Goes Text Goes
viable product? Here Here
Key Resources
• What are the most important
assets required to make the Channels
business model work? • How to reach your
• Physical: machines, vehicles
customers
• Financial: raising money, credit
• Through which channels do
• Human: programmers,
our customer segments want
designers, managers to be reached?
• Determine distribution
channel (virtual or physical)