Strengths – weaknesses – opportunities – threats (SWOT) analysis is one of the well-known management tools for strategic planning. Although papers published in different journals have discussed different subject that used SWOT analysis, it is found that there are no researches which applied SWOT analysis in the marine transport companies in Iran. On the other hand the economic and social effect of the sea on its neighbours live is undeniable. Consequently, the objective of this paper is to analyse the internal and external environment of the marine transport company in Iran with SWOT analysis method and then to give a number of solutions and strategies for promoting the development of marine transport companies. Firstly, a general review of SWOT analysis is presented, next, the research method conducted through 5 steps; include research and data collection, questionnaire design and survey, brainstorming, SWOT analysis and strategy recommendations. Results indicated that Iranians government encourages the development of these companies and positively support them, but the sanctions in recent years, created a difficult and complex situation for these companies.

The use of Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) processes in reservoirs is inevitable because energy demand is increasing. The recovery factor of Iranian oil and gas reservoirs is low, therefore, the use of IOR processes is very useful. The main purpose of this study is preferment of the planning and implementation of IOR processes in Iranian oil and gas reservoirs by SWOT analysis. To reach this purpose, the factors required for SWOT analysis were obtained by using face to face interviews with Iranian experienced experts as the method of collecting data and also using the concepts of the SWOT analysis. As part of the results of this article, supporting human resources to attend international conferences and workshops and enhancing gas production alongside proper marketing for gas export were the most important outputs of the SWOT analysis. API filtration

The internal and external factors of organizations and, as a result, their business challenges in facing economic sanctions have changed rapidly and rendered strategic plans ineffective. The SWOT analysis can help organizations in evaluating, reviewing and upgrading strategic plans when such economic crises occur. Nevertheless, SWOT analysis does not enable to evaluate strategic factors of an organization comprehensively and hence, does not provide exact priorities of strategies regarding their importance. The purpose of this study is to integrate SWOT analysis and multi-criteria decision-making methods under fuzzy conditions in bringing up to date and upgrade an organization's strategic plan in times of economic sanctions. This objective follows via a hybrid mathematical model to improve the quality of SWOT analysis and has applied and tested in a transformer manufacturer factory. In this process, the internal and external factors of organizations and revised strategies have extracted by the Delphi method and SWOT analysis. Then, the network analysis process has used to weight the factors, and TOPSIS, VIKOR, and COPRAS under fuzzy conditions have applied to rank the strategies and validate them. Besides, the consistency of the rating results and the correlation between them have examined and verified. This confirmation indicates the efficiency of the ratings and the applicability of the model. The proposed model can apply to improve and enhance the organizational strategies under sanctions conditions in other industrial companies in the country.

Today, the benefits of organizations cannot be achieved by one organization alone, because the organizations are trying to make their business focus on core competence, and they outsourcing other activities to other organizations. Iranian organizations have long spoken of IT outsourcing is a form of serious issues; So managers need to increase their knowledge and techniques in the field of IT outsourcing and decision making methods. This paper presents a quantitative model to rank the IT outsourcing options presented which is used SWOT analysis and the analysis network process (ANP).
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis is an important support tool for decision-making, and it commonly used as a means to systematically analyze an organization’s internal and external environments. SWOT analysis, does not provides the possibility of determining the importance of the criterion or the ability to evaluate options to make decisions according to these criterions. Analytical Network Process (ANP) is recommended to analyze the structure of the outsourcing problem and determine weights of the criteria, and final ranking as well as using this method can be considered the inner dependency among the main criteria. The results of the case studies show that taking into account dependencies reduces the weight of the strengths and weaknesses and increase the weight opportunities and threats.

The present research studies the strategic situation of teachers training in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad province using SWOT analysis. The research method is descriptive-field ones. The population of the study included all teachers of primary schools in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad province as being 5570 teachers in the educational year 2014-2015. 360 teachers were selected through multistep cluster random sampling based on Cochrane formula. SWOT analysis researcher-made questionnaire was distributed among them. Content validity was used to determine the validity of the questionnaire and Cronbach alpha to determine the reliability (α=0.91). the data was analyzed through descriptive statistics, one-sample t-test, Freedman statistc test, external and internal factors evaluation matrix. The results showed that high levels of teacher's knowledge (strength), the lack of necessary financial resources to successfully do the plans (weakness), the existence of economical advocates and subsides to education by the state (opportunities), and teacher's personal and economic problems (threats) are the most important priorities of SWOT analysis. The results also showed that primary teachers training in Kohkiloye_Boyer Ahmad province places in WO situation.

The purpose of this study was the understanding of Doulab worn texture and suitable strategy for its improvement and renovation. For this purpose first, with gathering related information, its current situation was discussed, then participation feasibility in this neighborhood improvement and renovation was investigated using headmen questionnaire and neighborhood worn texture final situation was analyzed using SWOT analysis and suitable strategy was extracted from SWOT analysis. Finally, the strategies to participatory improvement and renovation in this neighborhood were presented.

SWOT analysis is used extensively as an assessment and planning method, particularly in tourism planning. However, there are little documentations on application of SWOT analysis inecotourism. An assessment on systematic use of SWOT analysis was carried out in the present study to highlight the applicability of the SWOT technique in detailed investigations. In this study, based on field surveys and questionnaires (on Anzali Wetland and the local population), matrix of internal and external factors (threats, opportunities, weaknesses and strength) influencing tourism development in Anzali Wetland were evaluated within the framework of SWOT analysis and SO, WO, ST and WT strategies were identified. Based on the obtained results, the total score of 3.22 in IFE matrix suggests good condition of the system and high internal strength of the tourism development related to internal factors and the final score of 2.93 in the EFE matrix represents poor condition related to the external factors which means external factors have not been utilized properly; Thus appropriate planning and organizational management practices are required to deal with these factors. The study further proposes solutions, operational priorities and strategic planning according to environmental and local conditions of Anzali Wetland. Since the tourism industry in Iran is still in its early stages, particularly in Anzali Wetland region, the findings could help decision makers to estimate better the weaknesses, strengths, threats and opportunities, and to develop tourism industry in the region.

Organizations to remain competitive and dynamic business environment require a correct analysis of the internal situation and their own environment In order to obtain a variety of appropriate strategies. One of the most widely used management tools in the analysis and strategic planning is SWOT that formulated The strategies based on an analysis of internal and external factors. However, SWOT analysis along with advantages, it also has some limitations, such as assuming independence between strategic and ranking strategic factors and strategies. This paper covers SWOT analysis limits by combining it with the fuzzy net present value and is fuzzy Shaply value and provides a conceptual framework of combination these three tools. Finally The conceptual framework also implements in a power Co and determined the optimal combination strategy of this organization.

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis do not provide an analytical means to determine the importance of the identified factors or the ability to assess decision alternatives according to these factors. Although the analysis successfully pinpoints the factors, individual factors are usually described briefly and very generally. For this reason, SWOT analysis possesses deficiencies in the measurement and evaluation steps. Although the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique removes these deficiencies, it does not allow for the measurement of the possible dependencies among the factors. Therefore, it is better to employ a form of SWOT analysis that measures and takes into account the possible dependencies among the factors. This paper uses the analytic network process (ANP), which allows the quantitative analysis of SWOT and measurement of the dependencies among the factors. Dependencies among the SWOT factors affect the strategic and sub-factor weights and change the strategy priorities. Aim of this research, to determine priority of organizational strategies for using. SWOT is used for determining of strategies and ANP is used for evaluating strategies. Finally, strategy of SO is selected as best strategy for using because it had most weight in final matrix.

Coastal areas are of the most important natural ecosystems around the world, continuously influenced by various human activities, in particular tourism development leading to instability in some coastal areas. The coastal areas of Gilan province in Iran as an important tourist destination have been attracting always special attention of many tourists, investors and operators of tourism. Given the need for the environmental protection regarding the coastal tourism development, the present descriptive-analytical study aimed to identify coastal tourism potentials in the Gilan province by analyzing satellite images and field surveys and provide relevant promotional strategies through SWOT analysis. The results revealed that a majority of coastal areas had developmental constraints, and only one-third of these coasts, including Amirkalaye and Talesh, had the tourism development potential. Moreover, total score of internal factors calculated less than 2.5 (i.e., 2.11) highlighted a relative weakness for the coasts of Gilan province in terms of tourism capabilities. The results of the SWOT analysis also showed that the coastal tourism in this region was in a defensive state environmentally. In conclusion, the factors affecting coastal tourism development based on our developed SWOT matrix were found to be domestic and foreign investments, administrative coordination, detection of coastal capacity, tourism development and environmental tourism planning.