Assignment:
Write at least five full pages that analyze the internal and external environments for Partnership of Maternal and Child Health of New Jersey. This paper must be in essay form. Make sure you use grammar and spell check, proofread carefully, and use the APA writing style. You will be marked both on your writing mechanics as well as the content of your paper.
INTERNAL ANALYSIS: must include factors within the organizationmentioned that might be considered a strength or weakness and could be leveraged to take advantage of opportunities or reduce threats. Specifically, you must analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each of the functions found in the organization (i.e. Sales & Marketing, Finance & Accounting, Management (including HR), Research & Development, Production, and Information Systems (or whatever departments are found in your Internship company with which you are familiar). You are to assess how well these functions are performing, providing an in-depth discussion and analysis of resource levels and capabilities (how well these functions are using the resources to achieve organizational objectives). Do not simply describe how your organizational units perform their work.
EXTERNAL ANALYSIS Your external analysis must include factors outside the organization that may pose opportunities or threats to your organization. Specifically, you must analyze factors in the societal environment (demographics, economic, socio-cultural, political-legal, and technology) as well as factors in the industry environment (customers, competitors, and suppliers). Do not simply describe the external factors that you believe affect your business. You are required to provide the reader a clear understanding of how the factors are related to the creation of opportunities or threats for your organization.
CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE STUDY Once you have completed your SWOT analysis, the next step is to add a conclusion and a topic for future study for the organization which could be implemented to take advantage of the opportunities or reduce the threats. Please be specific. Any data that you add to your paper that is not your own idea, thought, or observation must be cited in your paper or else it is considered plagiarism.
Be sure to include at least three sources on your Reference page that you used in your research for your SWOT paper using the proper APA format for interviews, magazine or newspaper articles, Websites, company brochures, or annual reports.