The Primary Lesson Stemming from a SWOT Analysis Is That

question 147

Multiple Choice

The primary lesson stemming from a SWOT analysis is that a company's strategy should:

• A) leverage resource strengths,capitalize on market opportunities,overcome important weaknesses,and defend against external threats.
• B) be aimed at opportunities that offer the best potential for improved profitability.
• C) seek aggressively to defend against those threats to the company's immediate profitability.
• D) be designed to place heavy demands on areas where the company has proven competencies to meet the threats head-on.
• E) concentrate on making the SWOT's four lists relevant for strategic discussion and planning.

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Definitions:

Positive Claim

An assertion that something exists or is true, especially one without proof.

Equivocation

The misleading use of a word with more than one meaning or sense, causing an argument to appear logical when it is not.

Shifting Meaning

A logical fallacy that occurs when the meaning of a term or phrase changes in the course of an argument.

Straw Man

A fallacy where an opponent's argument is misrepresented to be easily attacked or refuted.