Which one of the following is NOT something that can be gleaned from a company's SWOT?
A) How to improve a company's strategy by using company strengths and capabilities as cornerstones for its strategy
B) Which market opportunities are best suited to a company's strengths and capabilities
C) Which resource weaknesses and deficiencies need to be corrected so as to better enable the pursuit of important market opportunities and to better defend against certain external threats
D) How to turn a core competence into a distinctive competence
E) Whether any of the company's resource strengths can be used to help lessen the impact of external threats

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The SWOT analysis informs strategic decision making by identifying the company's internal strengths and weaknesses (options A, C, and E) as well as external opportunities and threats (option B). While the SWOT analysis can inform how to leverage a core competence to create a distinctive competence, it cannot provide instructions on how to turn one into the other (option D).

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