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SWOT analysis

Organize internal strengths and weaknesses alongside external opportunities and threats to clarify the factors affecting a decision.

Investigate a cause

Investigate a specific event through successive causal questions, keeping each explanation tied to evidence.

Structure a problem

Break a broad question into explicit branches so you can examine its parts and decide what to investigate next.

Examine external changes

Organize political, economic, social, and technological factors that could affect a defined business decision.

Compare trade-offs

Compare the benefits and drawbacks of possible actions against a shared goal.

Compare weighted options

Compare eligible options against shared criteria and make the effects of your weights and ratings visible.

Define the gap

Compare the current and desired states using consistent measures, then separate the observed gap from possible causes and solutions.

Inspect the customer journey

Review acquisition, activation, retention, revenue, and referral with explicit events, cohorts, observation windows, and denominators.

Develop actions to test

Combine evidenced SWOT factors into SO, ST, WO, and WT action candidates, then state their assumptions, resource limits, and validation steps.

Connect the business model

Connect customers, value, delivery and economics across nine blocks, then identify the assumptions that need evidence.

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