World Cup Final - Germany

8. Day after World Cup Final. SWOT beyond business.

What a game!

It was historical 113th minute, Mario Goetze scored and Germany won their fourth Cup in history.

For Argentina it was a disappointment, also because it was their best game in Brazilian finals. But it was not enough for Germany, which - to be honest - did not have another “wow” match, similar to ones with Portugal or Brazil.

It was also a interesting game for us at CayenneApps. We were wondering, whether the assumptions we made when we did our World Cup Final SWOT were correct or not. Interestingly we were not so far from truth :)

Here you can find more detailed description of conducting SWOT for World Cup: Germany vs Argentina - SWOT analysis.

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7. Who will win the World Cup? Germany and Argentina examined on SWOT.

Only two more days left to the Big Game. On Sunday, Germany will stand against Argentina in the World Cup 2014 Final in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  • Whether German midfielders will overcome great Argentine attackers?
  • Will Leo Messi finally score another goal?
  • Which tactics is better for Germany: to attack or to defend themselves?
  • Does Mascherano really make the difference?

To answer these questions we have created two special World Cup SWOTs: one for Germany and one for Argentina. We identified features of each team, based on materials found in newspapers or websites, conversations with our friends and our knowledge about the sport we all love. Then we run whole analysis and created insights about each team. It was real fun!

Germany should use defence strategy and the best strategy for Argentine is aggressive strategy with open atack!

 

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Germany vs Argentina - deep SWOT Analysis (World Cup)

Todays post is quite different from others. Also it is not directly connected to businesses, startups and planning. Interested? Read on!

SWOT can be fun!

Some people may think that the SWOT analysis is only applicable for a business purpose and that it is actually quite boring. In fact, I believe that they could not be more wrong. SWOT is not about worksheets and wasting hours on conducting analysis. SWOT is about a deeper understanding of reality which is all around us and last but not least: SWOT can be real fun!

Last Wednesday we watched the game between Netherlands and Argentina. Before the penalties round, there were not many exciting moments on the field, so we started wondering who could win the World Cup.

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How your strengths help in making use of opportunities. SWOT analysis - Connection step.

Note: this is one of the posts in series: How to conduct SWOT. (The previous entries can be found here). 

In the previous post we have discussed an analysis, have done the selection step and have evaluated the selected features. Today it is time to focus on the last step of the process which is:

CONNECTION 

Let’s take another look at the whole process.

The five steps of the SWOT process

 

In the previous step our main goal was to assign a value to the most important and valuable features. Now we can figure out how particular features have an affect on each other.

Why should one check the relationship between SWOT features?

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How to create ranking of your assets and liabilities. SWOT - Evaluation step.

Note: this is one of the posts in the series: How to conduct SWOT? (Previous entries can be found here). 

In the previous post we have discussed analysis and selection steps. Today it is time to focus on the third step of process which is:

EVALUATION 

When you have collected and noted features in the four categories (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) and selected the most valuable from each category, you are ready to move on to the next step, which is assigning values to selected features. Let’s take another look of whole process.

The five steps of the SWOT process

 

In the previous step our main goal was preselection of the most important and valuable features. Now we can figure out what value can we assign to selected features and create rank of features.

Why one should assign values to SWOT features?

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How to choose the opportunities that give you the biggest advantage with SWOT

Note: this is one of the posts in series: How to conduct SWOT? (Previous entries can be found here).

Today we will focus on the second step of the process:

Selection 

When you have collected and noted features in the four categories (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats), you are ready to move on to the next step, which is selecting important features. Let’s take another look at the whole process.

The five steps of the SWOT process
Why we need to do Selection?

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