Current model

SWOT in Albarena is a decision-support model, not only a four-box note template. It helps a team move from evidence to strategic claims, from claims to SWOT items, and from SWOT items to actionable strategies.

The current SWOT model has these layers:

1. Decision frame: the decision owner, unit of analysis, scope, time horizon, stakeholders, assumptions, constraints, and readiness state.
2. Sources and evidence: files, notes, datasets, expert input, quotes, summaries, quality ratings, and citation records.
3. Claims: evidence-backed statements that can be reviewed before they become SWOT items.
4. SWOT items: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats with quadrant rationale, evidence status, review status, and structured scores.
5. Strategies: SO, ST, WO, WT, or custom action objects with linked SWOT items, owners, timelines, metrics, risks, and priority.
6. Validation and readiness: checks that identify missing evidence, weak actionability, duplicated strategies, missing owners, and decision-readiness gaps.

Documentation sections

• How to complete the SWOT model
• Decision frame
• Evidence and claims
• SWOT items and scoring
• Strategies
• Readiness and validation
• Report and export
• Workbench guidance

Professional standard

A professional SWOT should be defensible. Each important item should answer:

• What is the claim?
• Is it internal or external?
• Is it positive or negative?
• What evidence supports it?
• What counter-evidence exists?
• Why does it belong in this quadrant?
• How important is it for the decision?
• What strategic action follows?

If the model cannot answer those questions, it can remain a draft, but it should not be treated as decision-ready.