SWOT Showdown

The Strategy Sprint

20-35 Minutes

Fast-paced strategic thinking simulation

🎯 Learning Targets

  • Sort factors correctly into Internal (S/W) vs External (O/T)
  • Identify environment forces driving opportunities & threats
  • Build a winning strategy and support it with tactics

Choose Your Scenario

🍕

Marco's Pizza vs. SliceDash

Quality vs. Speed: Can traditional pizza survive the delivery app era?

📚

Campus Tutoring Center

Great service, low awareness: Competing with YouTube & AI in the attention economy

Mission Brief

90s

🎯 Your Mission

You have 12 minutes to diagnose the situation and propose a strategy investors would believe.

Game Rounds:

  1. Deal & Sort (8 min): Classify 12 factor cards into SWOT quadrants
  2. Strategy Build (6 min): Create your Strategy Card + pick 3 tactics
  3. Pitch & Score (5 min): Present and get scored

Round 1: Deal & Sort

0 / 12 cards placed
8:00

Your Factor Cards

Internal Factors Can we control/change quickly?
External Factors Outside forces & trends
Strengths 0
Opportunities 0
Weaknesses 0
Threats 0

Classification Tips:

  • Internal (S/W): Resources, capabilities, operations YOU control
  • External (O/T): Market trends, competitors, customer behavior, regulations
  • Positive (S/O): Advantages or growth opportunities
  • Negative (W/T): Disadvantages or risks

Environment Forces

Identify the "weather" driving your Opportunities & Threats

Environment Forces:

Technology Economic Legal/Ethical Competitive

Round 2: Strategy Building

6:00

Build Your Strategy Card

0/100
0/100
0/250
0/100

Choose 3 Supporting Tactics

Select actions that directly support your strategy

Your Selected Tactics (0/3)

Strategy Scorecard

0
/ 30 Points

SWOT Accuracy (12 pts)

Environment Connection (6 pts)

Strategy Quality (8 pts)

Tactics Alignment (4 pts)

Your Strategy Card