Use Case:

SWOT Analysis with meetingSift

SWOT analysis is a structured planning method for groups to assess Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of a company, project, product, or other business venture. The goal of the SWOT analysis is to identify areas of improvement, new opportunities, and competitive advantages.

MeetingSift’s interactive group activities can be tailored to any issue, so you can easily facilitate efficient and effective SWOT analysis sessions. Participants use their smart devices to contribute their expertise, and real-time visualizations of results informs the discussion.

The Organizer

Patty is a Senior Manager often tasked with running planning and strategy meetings. These meetings involve participants from multiple departments addressing key aspects of the organization.

She knows from experience that SWOT analysis can be a very powerful tool to identify areas of improvement and discover new opportunities. To get the big picture it is important to capture the combined knowledge and expertise of participants with diverse perspectives, which can be challenging.

MeetingSift provides a way for Patty to leverage the expertise of the entire group, while at the same time significantly speeding up the SWOT analysis process. Even with larger groups, she can create an engaging environment and enable everyone to participate and share their insights equally.

SWOT Analysis Challenges

A SWOT analysis is traditionally a time consuming process. Patty usually has to call a series of meetings in order to get enough time with the group to collect and organize input from all participants, and present results for feedback and discussion. The challenge of getting the same group of busy individuals together multiple times often leads to delays.

Another big challenge she faces is to equally engage the whole group she is working with. While Patty includes participants with diverse perspectives and expertise, it is can be very difficult to make sure all voices are heard. Often times she hears a lot from a few people in the room, while others remain silent.

Capturing everyone’s input, the way it was intended, can be similarly challenging. Summary notes sometimes skip specific wording, potentially changing the original intent behind a suggestion.

How MeetingSift helps

MeetingSift helps Patty make her SWOT analysis sessions more efficient and productive. Her participants can easily contribute their insights in parallel, via their own smart devices. This gives everyone an equal opportunity to be heard, while capturing the insight in their own words and speeding up knowledge sharing.

Patty uses MeetingSift’s Brainstorm activity to collect participants’ input for each of the SWOT categories: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The results are visualized back to the group in real-time, highlighting trends and informing discussions. After gathering the input for a category, Patty uses MeetingSift’s Top Picks activity to have participants collectively identify the most important issues. These can then be analysed further using MeetingSift’s Quadrant activity.

Real-time result analysis and visualizations eliminates the need for her to schedule follow-up meetings, and enables the group to act on their findings sooner rather than later.

Once the meeting is over, MeetingSift automatically compiles the information gathered and the corresponding visualizations into a meeting report for Patty to share with decision makers and other stakeholders in her organization.

Gather more input

Do the same few individuals do most of the talking at your meetings?

Tap into all the knowledge in the room by letting participants contribute their insights via their own devices. MeetingSift is easy to use, no training is needed, and there is nothing to download or install.

Significantly speed up the process

Parallel input via own devices speeds up knowledge sharing.

The group’s assessments are analyzed and visualized in real-time, so they can be discussed immediately. This eliminates the need for hard to schedule follow-up meetings, and enables the group to act on their findings sooner rather than later.

Instant analysis and results

Participants’ input is analyzed and visualized in real-time, informing the ongoing discussion. In addition to saving time, this allows for deeper dives into key areas, as well as more agile decision making.

A report, containing all inputs and visualizations, is available for sharing immediately after the meeting has ended.

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