Wednesday 10 December 2014

Strategic Fit Analysis

Strategic Fit Analysis

Strategic fit is the analysis of the internal resources and external opportunities of a business along with its capabilities. Effective comparison can help the organisation to find out their scopes and lack and take necessary measures to fulfill organisational goal. (Okumus, Altinay and Chathoth, 2010)

Ken Andrews, professor of Harvard Business School, was one of the first strategy theorists to formally describe the concept of Strategic fit between a company’s internal environment (its resources and capabilitites) and its external environment. He claimed that a SWOT analysis could identify the best way for a company to use its strengths to exploit opportunities, to defend its strengths, and limit its weaknesses against external threats (Bensoussan and Fleisher, 2013). SWOT analysis (situation analysis) is widely used to systematically analyse the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of an individual business. Hence it becomes easy to compare them with the business environment (micro and macro). It would ultimately help the business to make proper changes with the changing environment.

[****NB****
                Micro- Porter’s 5 forces analysis
                Macro- STEEPLE or PEST analysis      ]

Bibliography:
Bensoussan, B. E. and Fleisher, C. S. (2013), Analysis Without Paralysis: 12 Tools to Make Better Strategic Decisions, 2nd ed, New Jersey: Pearson Education

Okumus, F., Altinay, L. and Chathoth, P. (2010), Strategic Management in the International Hospitality and Tourism Industry, UK: Butterworth-Hrinemann

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