SWOT Analysis Is a Powerful Tool for

question 38

Multiple Choice

SWOT analysis is a powerful tool for

• A) gauging whether a company has a cost competitive value chain.
• B) sizing up a company's resource capabilities and deficiencies, its market opportunities, and the external threats to its future well-being.
• C) evaluating whether a company is in the most appropriate strategic group.
• D) determining a company's competitive strength vis-à-vis close rivals.
• E) identifying the market segments in which a company is strongly positioned and weakly positioned.

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Definitions:

Yaqui

An indigenous group native to the valley of the Yaqui River in Mexico.

Pesticide Use

The application of chemicals to crops, buildings, and other areas to control pests and disease.

Ethnographers

Researchers who study cultures and communities by participating in and observing their daily lives, often living among the people they are studying.

Key Consultants

Members of the society being studied who provide information that helps the researchers understand the meaning of what they observe. Early anthropologists referred to such individuals as informants.