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Asked 13 April 2014

Can we use SWOT Analysis as a comparative research tool? If so, how?

Assume that we want to compare between the related works of our research area of interest, can we use SWOT analysis in this case? If so, how we can use it? If not, which methods can we use to achieve this goal?

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Eddie Seva See
Bicol University
SWOT Analysis is an organization's strategic planning tool that involves institutional analysis, environmental scanning, and identification of distinctive competencies, among others. A comparative analysis is made by comparing the institution's capabilities (resulting from the institutional analysis) and those of others (taken from environmental scanning). This comparison is the basis for the determination of the institution's distinctive competencies.The challenge, as mentioned by Mohamed is using the same indicators because while generating data in the institutional analysis will be easy, getting the same data from other institutions will be extremely difficult.
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Mohamed Abdelbaqy
Médecins Sans Frontières
yes you can as long as the indicators are the same in both arms
I think the following link is a good example:
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Eddie Seva See
Bicol University
SWOT Analysis is an organization's strategic planning tool that involves institutional analysis, environmental scanning, and identification of distinctive competencies, among others. A comparative analysis is made by comparing the institution's capabilities (resulting from the institutional analysis) and those of others (taken from environmental scanning). This comparison is the basis for the determination of the institution's distinctive competencies.The challenge, as mentioned by Mohamed is using the same indicators because while generating data in the institutional analysis will be easy, getting the same data from other institutions will be extremely difficult.
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Roberto - Minadeo
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil
The model is somewhat obsolete, the result of the attempt to parameterize everything, forgetting human aspects of analysis.

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