184 Navigating Strategic Decisions: The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting
the company in the industry via M&A and JV projects so that it can serve a niche market or offer
products that give it an advantage over competitors.
F. Own, target, and partner company SWOT analyses. These analyses are among the rst steps in
planning the SDF team’s activities in M&A and JV projects, which, in turn, help the project team
focus on key project issues. In this step, the SDF team sifts through huge amounts of information
and summarizes it into strengths and weaknesses that are internal issues, and opportunities and
threats that are external factors. The analysis begins by clarifying and assessing stated project goals
and objectives and identifying inter ...