Question: Analyze Your College or University's Internal Strategic Situation

Purpose: This exercise is excellent for doing together as a class and will help in evaluating your university's major strengths and weaknesses. An organization's strategies are largely based on striving to take advantage of strengths and improving on weaknesses.

Instructions:

Step 1 As a class, determine your college or university's major internal strengths and weaknesses. List 10 strengths and 10 weaknesses.

Step 2 Get everyone in class to rank their factors with 1 being most important and 10 being least important.

Step 3 Gather up everyone's papers, count the numbers, and in that manner create a prioritized list of the key internal strengths and weaknesses facing your college.