Strategy Research Competition by SWOT & PESTLE.com

Hi All,

Greetings from SWOT & PESTLE.com team.

SWOTandPESTLE.com is a leading strategy research portal covering detailed Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) and Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental (PESTLE) analysis of leading industry sectors and organizations across the globe. Our analysis has helped businesses, researchers and scholars with valuable insights to make strategic decisions and take their research forward.

Through this competition, we throw the floor open by inviting contributions from aspiring rising talents to submit the SWOT and PESTLE analysis of a specific organization chosen by us.

You can get a fair idea of the high quality and standard of analysis that we expect by taking a look at the already published analysis on our website http://www.swotandpestle.com/.

Some of the recommended samples you can follow:

Swayambhu Dutta
http://www.swotandpestle.com/coles/

Senior Analysts for Barakaat Consulting team
http://www.swotandpestle.com/tata-consultancy-services-tcs/

Yelve Abhishek Aniruddha

http://www.swotandpestle.com/general-mills-inc/

You can browse the website for more samples.

Submission Guidelines

1. Register yourself by filling out this Registration form http://bit.ly/register_SRSP

2. Like us on FB (https://www.facebook.com/swotandpestle) and follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/SWOT_PESTLE) to receive regular updates for this competition.

3. We will email you the name of a handpicked organization for conducting SWOT and PESTLE analysis, within 2 business days after receiving your registration.

4. Follow the attached instructions for writing SWOT and PESTLE analysis of the allocated organization.

5. Plagiarism is strictly non-permissible. Please check your reports in plagiarism tools before turning it in, as plagiarised work will be automatically disqualified.You must run your work in the below free plagiarism check tool and attach a saved copy of the same with your work.

http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/

6. Your final submission should consist of the following 2 documents in a zip file:

                a. Your analysis of the given company in Word Doc format

                b. Plagiarism report from the above tool in pdf format

Now, for submitting your work to us, simply email it following the below guideline:

Zip file naming format should be

(Name of the Organization allocated)_(Your Phone No)

Viz. Telstra_8444010252

Email your analysis (zip file) by 4th June, Sunday 2017, 11pm to swotandpestle@gmail.com with subject "My Analysis for SRSP - (Your Name)"

( SRSP stands for Strategy Research Competition by SWOT & PESTLE.com)

Viz. My Analysis for SRSP - Abhishek Gupta

7. You will get updates on winning entries via email/FB/Twitter.

Terms and Conditions

• You must be either pursuing an MBA degree or successfully completed MBA to participate in this competition.
• Each entry should be written by a single person i.e For entry only one author is permissible. Any joint efforts or collaborations will not be entertained.
• The copyright for this content will belong to Barakaat Consulting Corp although you will be given credit for it if your work is published on our website
• The judge's decisions will be final.

Assessment and awards

Reference source and citation                                         15

Presentation and adherence to submission guidelines
(follow the template structure shared in the instructions)   15

3. SWOT & PESTLE.com team will narrow down on 3 winning entries and 10 runner up entries. All other entries which qualify and meet our quality and research standards will be published on our website with due credit to the writer and with a link to their LinkedIn profile.

Scores from judges (see point 2.) [85% weightage] and MLC [15% weightage] will collaboratively decide the ranking of winning entries.

Prize (Total 13 prizes, 3 ranks + 10 runners up)

Cash Prize

Physical certificates

E-certificates

Publish work on swotandpestle.com with credit to the author with link to LinkedIn profile