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sp-analysis

Conducts SWOT, PESTEL, and Porter's Five Forces analysis for strategic planning baselines.

1|Updated Mar 25, 2026
Search Tags:#strategic planning#competitive analysis#pestel#swot analysis#environmental analysis#porter five forces#baseline assessment
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npx skills add https://github.com/NestorMonroy/thyrox --skill sp-analysis-nestormonroy
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Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: sp-analysis
Source: https://github.com/NestorMonroy/thyrox/tree/main/.claude/skills/sp-analysis
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/NestorMonroy/thyrox --skill sp-analysis-nestormonroy

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill includes references (resource) and assets (resource) components.

What problem does it solve? Strategic planning often starts from intuition rather than documented evidence. This Skill structures the environmental scanning phase of strategic planning, producing a validated external and internal diagnosis (SWOT, PESTEL, Porter's Five Forces, and capability baseline) that feeds directly into strategy formulation. ## Core Features & Use Cases - SWOT Analysis: Four-quadrant assessment with evidence-backed strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, plus SO/WO/ST/WT strategy synthesis via a ready template. - PESTEL Macro-Environment Scan: Six-dimension analysis (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Ecological, Legal) with significance ratings and opportunity/threat classification. - Porter's Five Forces: Competitive intensity scoring on a 1-5 scale with a detailed reference guide, sector attractiveness calculation, and strategic implications per force. - Internal Baseline: Quantified inventory of capabilities, resources, and organizational culture benchmarked against the sector. - Use Case: At the start of an annual planning cycle, a strategy lead uses this Skill after completing organizational context (sp:context) to produce a validated environmental-analysis.md document, then hands off to gap analysis (sp:gaps). ## Quick Start Ask the AI to run a strategic environmental analysis for your organization, producing SWOT, PESTEL, and Five Forces assessments using the provided templates.

Frequently Asked Questions about sp-analysis

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I conduct a SWOT analysis for strategic planning?▼

Gather evidence-backed items for each quadrant: internal strengths and weaknesses, external opportunities and threats sourced from PESTEL and Five Forces. Limit each quadrant to five prioritized items, attach concrete data to each, then derive SO, WO, ST, and WT strategies from the combinations.

What is the difference between PESTEL and Porter's Five Forces?▼

PESTEL scans the macro-environment across six dimensions (political, economic, social, technological, ecological, legal), while Five Forces analyzes industry structure: new entrants, supplier power, buyer power, substitutes, and rivalry. PESTEL feeds opportunities and threats; Five Forces explains sector profitability.

When should I skip the environmental analysis step?▼

Skip it if a completed analysis exists from the last six months and the environment has not materially changed; reuse it and document current assumptions. Also skip it for purely operational projects without strategic components, where DMAIC or PDCA fits better.

How do I score Porter's Five Forces intensity?▼

Rate each force on a 1-5 scale where 1 means very low pressure and 5 means very high pressure, backing each score with two or three concrete data points. Sector attractiveness equals 30 minus the sum of the five scores; prioritize responses toward the highest-scoring force.

Why does a SWOT analysis fail to be useful?▼

SWOT fails when items lack evidence, quadrants exceed five items, or external factors are confused with internal ones. Opportunities and threats are external; weaknesses are internal. A two-hour brainstorm without prior data collection produces opinions, not analysis.

What are the limitations of Five Forces analysis?▼

Five Forces assumes a relatively stable market structure, so it needs adjustment in emerging or disrupted markets. It also reflects a point in time; in dynamic sectors the analysis stays valid roughly six to twelve months before requiring review.

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