Which variables are likely to dictate the future course of events?
Continuous performance evaluation in the Adaptive Landscape ™
- A consumer who tries to compare different products regarding prices and various attributes needs to rank & navigate between strengths & weaknesses
- A Central Banks analyst comparing inflation reports from various regions and different products/services needs to rank & navigate between opportunities & risks
Compressed 3-d navigation (mobile or stationary) systems are not limited to use in ships, cars or airplanes but are also useful in the socio-economical world
A performance GPS delivers situation awareness, solution identification & continuous Best Practices Evaluation based on:
- SWOT- & Best Practices perception (see more)
- Matrix compression and condensing (see more)
- Function estimation techniques (see more)
- Reverse mapping (see more)
This projection shows the positions in a conceptual performance landscape and on a 3D surface the past trajectories, current headings in order to trace and plan for "decision points", "centers of gravity", "operational lines" and "transforming velocities".
The digital interface you see above contains huge masses of performance data from an R&D portfolio but it could have been a conceptual visualization from any kind of area
This new SWOT-algorithms are used to search for UNKNOWN or HIDDEN OPPORTUNITIES
Which way to go to reach TARGET?
SWOT-searching: A comprehensive MARKET VIEW is scanned as the Profit & Loss (P&L) landscape (above) is built of input data from a number of individual units of measurements
Trend Navigation!
SWOT-algorithms uncovers and provides ranking of universal market forces or MARKET TRENDS
The SWOT-search above displays low achievements of "efficiency enhancers" as a universal "WEAKNESS" factor within a scanned group of (global) enterprises
Quality Navigation!
When clicking on your customized SWOT-landscape you perhaps - after looking into the SWOT- Navigator ® - decide to counter the attribute “Flexibility to support multiple end user needs” which is ranked as the most serious THREAT
Balanced Scorecard Navigation!
The SWOT-navigator ® system architecture provides consolidation of SWOT and Balanced Scorecard (see below). It converts all underlying matrix data (incl. information about effects on overall objective) and provides for visualization, ranking, simulation as well as predictions of Balanced Scorecard data.
All kind of Conceptual Navigation!
The conceptual Landscape projections make explicit alternative ROAD MAPS by RANKING a multitude of critical business contradictions, constraints, resources and opportunities
Investment Navigation!
For instance, the Global Investment Landscape (see below) is based on perceptions of over 12 000 business leaders and documented – in excel-file-format - by the World Economic Forum 2008 and imported (by us) into the SWOT-Calculator ®. The corresponding Global Competitiveness Landscape turns out to be a huge mountain of 134 countries trying to climb upwards to higher competitive positions.
In lower part of the front we see countries like Zimbabwe, Chad etc. and in the middle area countries with big markets that are on their way upwards to higher levels. At the blue and ice blue heights we find countries with existing high competitive positions (US; Western Europe, Singapore, Hong Kong etc.).
If you want to make a deeper review of global competition, for ex. between Venezuela and Kenya the SWOT-Navigator ® indicates “Labor market efficiency” as Venezuela’s most serious weakness and “Health & primary education” as its most significant strength (see below).
What kind of data is scanned by the SWOT-algorithms?
You can use excel spreadsheet, XML documents or use manual input. Basic input data could be
- Subjective and intuitive (landscape projections will be generated based on intuitions and personal believes)
- Strictly factual and unbiased (business intelligence will be provided based on raw data from different data sources) or
- A combination thereof
Contact TCG/Vinnova Online Service
to customize your conceptual navigation
Visit our Quick-Start-Guide, test the SWOT-algorithms or get instantly a license for SWOT-searching.
To get a briefing about the SWOT-landscape ® analysis, its WHAT, HOW and WHY and eight basic FAQ’ s you may click HERE!
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Landscape compression is possible as a result of a new algorithm package, called SWOT-algorithms designed to significantly expand your set of decision support tools in innovative development & investment processes. The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) makes this new software package available.
The SWOT-Radar Screen ® provides a powerful generic desktop solution for identifying and tracking business, finance and R&D strategies, sales performances and portfolio balancing with embedded components such as:
- The Communicative Display - the SWOT-landscape ® - transforms complex scenarios into transparent visualizations, connects value creators and let’s you predetermine the set of scenarios to analyze
- Performance Tracking, by using the SWOT-Calculator ® to review positions and attributes underlying gain, loss, and more as you would look at the dynamics of physical objects in a natural space
- Position Searching by using the SWOT-Navigator ® for identifying strategies to meet objectives (whilst – if preferred - also taking advantage of the four main perspectives of Balanced Scorecard)
- Interactivity also allow you to conduct "What-If-Analysis", Sector Analysis and Managerial adjustments. For ex. could by deploying Sector Analysis so called “impairment indicators” easily be identified (and continuously deployed in "impairment tests").
