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- Step 5: Identify your opportunities
- Step 6: Identify your potential threats
- Step 7: Examine your Matrix for connections
A SWOT analysis can help you with strategic planning for your capstone project and program development. This tool can help you define objectives, create priority initiatives to help make them a reality. Subsequently, a SWOT analysis can help you to identify measures that help to ensure that your capstone project is unfolding optimally (Refer to Appendix 7.E: Sample SWOT Analysis for a Hospital).
Logic models can be a valuable method for establishing capstone program planning, an implementation plan, and the outcomes or changes you hope to achieve (Doll, 2010). A concept map is an attempt to make explicit your program’s connection with theory so that it can be reviewed by others. While concepts maps provide a visual representation of how you will approach your capstone project in the context of a specified theoretical framework, logic models provide a graphic depiction that presents the shared relationships among the resources, activities, outcomes, and outcomes/impacts of your capstone project’s identified need, problem, or issue. Problem Tree and Root Cause Analyses can help you with your capstone project by identifying how to approach a recognized problem, need, or issue. Finally, a SWOT analysis can be used to evaluate your capstone project by considering multiple internal and external factors that can facilitate effective program development while minimizing risks.
Glynn has continued to meet with their mentor, capstone instructor(s), the institution’s statistician, and librarians.
The guiding theory for Glynn’s research-based capstone project is the Diffusion of Innovations. After performing a literature search to specifically gain more information about this theory, Glynn created the following: