SWOT analysis

SWOT analysis

Below are the description of all the uses of the working document “SWOT analysis”:

“SWOT Analysis” is a tool/technique for the process “Identify risks”.
This technique examines the project from each of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) perspectives to increase the breadth of identified risks by including internally generated risks. The technique starts with identification of strengths and weaknesses of the organization, focusing on either the project, organization, or the business area in general. SWOT analysis then identifies any opportunities for the project that arise from organizational strengths, and any threats arising from organizational weaknesses. The analysis also examines the degree to which organizational strengths offset threats, as well as identifying opportunities that may serve to overcome weaknesses.

This definition was found in the PMBOK V5

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