The definition was given, perhaps not clearly. SWOT gives 5.8 million hits on Google- it is an important concept at least for technology and management. What Rossi does is a technology project; this is the my second SWOT paper on my blog; I am not seeking popularity or trying to impose my opinions. However I think that (technologically speaking) if we do not build a new paradigm, this is a guarantee that after 25 years of failures we will have other 25 years of failures. As a linguist you surely know the importance of professional jargons including the specific acronyms. The problem is - if you never heard about SWOT, there are chances that you don't know, when why, how a SWOT analysis is made - you have no "feeling" for it. The paper is about Threats,\ first of all. It is a strange coincidence that today we were visited by a young graduate student who learned Japanese at the local university and now is working at her PhD- about "THE JAPANESE DIASPORA IN NORTH AMERICA AFTER WWII" *Would you be so kind to give her some advises?* Unfortunately my best Japanese American friend has died years ago, he was a great supporter of CF I wrote his obituary.
The student's name is MEDA PALOSANU. Peter Just from curiosity- do you knew about VUCA?- it is my other acronym based paper Volatility-Uncertainty-Complexity- Ambiguity- 873,000 hits Google but we live in a VUCA World. On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: > > Right, Kevin! The definition of SWOT is clearly given in the first >> paragraph >> of the paper- have you read it? >> > > It wasn't "clearly given." It was sort-of spelled out in a confusing > manner. > > I was trained as a technical writer many decades ago. One of the first > rules we learned was spell out acronyms the first time you use them in the > text, unless they are familiar to all readers. Example: > > SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) > > I have never heard of this acronym. It is not likely to be familiar to the > readers of this forum because it is not related to energy. Therefore you > should spell it out. > > - Jed > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
