Answer the following question and reply to at least two student's post. Internal citations and references are required.

As noted in your reading, SWOT analysis is a common business tool, designed to recognize and take account of a medical practice's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It's essentially a structured way to look at both your internal company culture and your external business environment as you implement a strategic plan. However, it's not the only tool out there you can use to analyze these factors.

Address ONE of these two discussion prompts:

Do you think a SWOT analysis is useful to help a medical practice$/$hospital$/$long term care facility analyze the external environment?

There are other alternatives to SWOT~ Explore and expand on one other method of organizational analysis that you would consider using? Including the framework diagram may also be useful. $($Hint: some examples include SCOPE planning, SOAR, PEST, PESTLE, STEEP... there are many!$)$