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SFAS Matrix Development Guide

The SFAS Matrix summarizes an organization's strategic factors by combining external opportunities and threats from the EFAS table with internal strengths and weaknesses from the IFAS table. It lists the most important strategic factors, assigns them weights, and calculates a weighted score to evaluate how the organization is responding to each factor in the short, intermediate, or long term.

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SFAS Matrix Development Guide

The SFAS Matrix summarizes an organization's strategic factors by combining external opportunities and threats from the EFAS table with internal strengths and weaknesses from the IFAS table. It lists the most important strategic factors, assigns them weights, and calculates a weighted score to evaluate how the organization is responding to each factor in the short, intermediate, or long term.

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  • Introduction to SFAS Matrix
  • Example of SFAS Table

 SFAS (Strategic Factors Analysis Summary) Matrix

 summarizes an organization’s strategic factors by combining the external factors from the
EFAS Table with the internal factors from the IFAS Table

You can create an SFAS Matrix by following these steps:


1. In Column 1 (Strategic Factors), list the most important EFAS and IFAS items. After
each factor, indicate whether it is a Strength (S), Weakness (W), an Opportunity (O), or
a Threat (T).
2. In Column 2 (Weight), assign weights for all of the internal and external strategic factors.
As with the EFAS and IFAS Tables presented earlier, the weight column must total 1.00.
This means that the weights calculated earlier for EFAS and IFAS will probably have to
be adjusted.
3. In Column 3 (Rating) assign a rating of how the company’s management is responding
to each of the strategic factors. These ratings will probably (but not always) be the same
as those listed in the EFAS and IFAS Tables.
4. In Column 4 (Weighted Score) multiply the weight in Column 2 for each factor by its
rating in Column 3 to obtain the factor’s rated score.
5. In Column 5 (Duration), depicted in Figure 6–1, indicate short-term (less than one
year), intermediate-term (one to three years), or long-term (three years and beyond).
6. In Column 6 (Comments), repeat or revise your comments for each strategic factor from
the previous EFAS and IFAS Tables. The total weighted score for the average firm in
an industry is always 3.0.
Table Format:

I
n
t
e
Strategic Factor( select the most important r
m
opportunities-threats from EFAS and strength- Weight Rating Weighted Score S e Comments
weakness from IFAS h d L
o i o
a
r t
n
t e g
S1
S2
W3
W4
O1
O2
O5
T3
T5
Total Scores 1 3
Example:

 SFAS (Strategic Factors Analysis Summary) Matrix  summarizes an organization’s strategic factors by combining the exte
as those listed in the EFAS and IFAS Tables. 4. In Column 4 (Weighted Score) multiply the weight in Column 2 for each factor
Strategic Factor( select the most important opportunities-threats from EFAS and strength- weakness from IFAS Weight Rating
Example:

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