Distinctive SWOT Template

Free Download & How To Guide

Find out how to use this innovative SWOT Template to improve your strategic planning

Step 1: Get your Distinctive SWOT Template

Click here to navigate to our SWOT template download page, click on the download link and choose either MS Word or PDF, Get it Now (use your browser back button to return to this page)

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Now that you have your template let's find out how to use it!

Step 2: Populate the Template

Add all of your strengths/weaknesses and opportunity/threats to the template.

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Once you have added your content to the template you can use its unique strategic value to your advantage

Step 3: Consider Interactions

The advantage of this SWOT template is that it has four quadrants that make it easy for you to quickly and simply identify where your internal and external strategic environments interact. These four quadrants are the

Area of Opportunity, where your internal strengths will help you to take advantage of your external opportunities
Area of Missed Opportunity, where your internal strengths will help you to mitigate your external threats
Area of Work, where your internal weaknesses restrict your ability to take advantage of your external opportunities
Area of Concern, where your internal weaknesses will restrict your ability to mitigate your threats

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Now, let's look at what this looks like in practice

Step 4: Map your Interactions

In the diagram below we have identified two examples

The first identifies your strength "Access to capital funds" interacts well with an opportunity to buy into your supply chain, referred to as backward integration.
The second identifies that the business has "No established relationships with customers" which could increase the threat from "Low cost imports"

Now that you have an understanding on how to use this template, you can start work on your own distinctive SWOT analysis right away, or scroll down for more great SWOT links.