The Use of SWOT Analysis for Future Scenarios: A Case Study of Privacy and Emerging Technologies

Abstract

This paper presents a SWOT analysis for future scenarios, which can be used as a tool for the detailed analysis of scenarios in a more transparent and systematic way. This method was developed by using the original future-oriented SWOT method in order to analyze scenarios that examined the future relationship between privacy and emerging technologies. Based on researchers' experiences from the use of the original method, two limitations were identified. Therefore, this paper presents suggestions for tackling these identified limitations and, as a result, presents a practical and comprehensive tool: SWOT analysis for future scenarios to analyze scenarios in a more detailed manner.