Which 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 focuses on a company's internal and external environment and helps to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It can provide information on how to improve a company's strategy using its strengths and capabilities, which market opportunities best suit the company, which weaknesses need to be corrected, and whether any of the company's resource strengths can be used to help lessen the impact of external threats. However, it does not specifically address how to turn a core competence into a distinctive competence.

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