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The EFE Matrix Is The Strategic Tool Used To Evaluate Firm Existing Strategies
The EFE Matrix Is The Strategic Tool Used To Evaluate Firm Existing Strategies
the strategic tool to evaluate external environment or macro environment of the firm include economic, social,
technological, government, political, legal and competitive information.
The EFE matrix is similar to IFE matrix the only difference is that IFE matrix evaluate the internal factors of the
company and EFE matrix evaluate the external factors.
The EFE matrix consists of following attributes mentioned below.
External Factors
External factors are extracted after deep analysis of external environment. Obviously there are some
good and some bad for the company in the external environment. Thats the reason external factors are
divided into two categories opportunities and threats.
Opportunities
Opportunities are the chances exist in the external environment, it depends firm whether the firm is willing to exploit
the opportunities or may be they ignore the opportunities due to lack of resources.
Threats
Threats are always evil for the firm, minimum no of threats in the external environment open many doors for the firm.
Maximum number of threats for the firm reduce their power in the industry.
Rating
Rating in EFE matrix represent the response of firm toward the opportunities and threats. Highest the rating better the
response of the firm to exploit opportunities and defend the threats. Rating range from 1.0 to 4.0 and can be applied
to any factor whether it comes under opportunities or threats.
There are some important point related to rating in EFE matrix.
Weight
Weight attribute in EFE matrix indicates the relative importance of factor to being successful in the firms industry. The
weight range from 0.0 means not important and 1.0 means important, sum of all assigned weight to factors must be
equal to 1.0 otherwise the calculation would not be consider correct.
Weighted Score
Weighted score value is the result achieved after multiplying each factor rating with the weight.
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Assign a weight to each factor, ranging from 0 (not important) to 1.0 (very important).
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Assign a 1-4 rating to each critical success factor to indicate how effectively the firms current strategies
respond to the factor. (1 = response is poor, 4 = response is extremely good)
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