Swot Analysis of "Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video" written by Boris Groysberg, Michel Anteby includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that 409058 Teena facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Compensation, Entrepreneurship, Motivating people, Organizational structure and Organizational Development.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video casestudy better are - – increasing transportation and logistics costs, there is increasing trade war between United States & China, technology disruption, wage bills are increasing, digital marketing is dominated by two big players Facebook and Google, increasing commodity prices, geopolitical disruptions,
increasing government debt because of Covid-19 spendings, challanges to central banks by blockchain based private currencies, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the 409058 Teena, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which 409058 Teena operates in.
According to Harvard Business Review, 75% of the managers use SWOT analysis for various purposes such as – evaluating current scenario, strategic planning, new venture feasibility, personal growth goals, new market entry, Go To market strategies, portfolio management and strategic trade-off assessment, organizational restructuring, etc.
SWOT Objectives / Importance of SWOT Analysis and SWOT Matrix
SWOT analysis of Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of 409058 Teena
3. Assessing feasibility of the new initiative in Organizational Development field.
4. Making a Organizational Development topic specific business decision
5. Set goals for the organization
6. Organizational restructuring of 409058 Teena
Strengths Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of 409058 Teena in Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video Harvard Business Review case study are -
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of 409058 Teena in the sector have low bargaining power. Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps 409058 Teena to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Innovation driven organization
– 409058 Teena is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video Harvard Business Review case study can use Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation strategies to further increase the scale of innovtions in the organization.
High switching costs
– The high switching costs that 409058 Teena has built up over years in its products and services combo offer has resulted in high retention of customers, lower marketing costs, and greater ability of the firm to focus on its customers.
Strong track record of project management
– 409058 Teena is known for sticking to its project targets. This enables the firm to manage – time, project costs, and have sustainable margins on the projects.
Digital Transformation in Organizational Development segment
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For 409058 Teena digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. 409058 Teena has successfully integrated the four key components of digital transformation – digital integration in processes, digital integration in marketing and customer relationship management, digital integration into the value chain, and using technology to explore new products and market opportunities.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– 409058 Teena has innovation driven culture where significant part of the revenues are spent on the research and development activities. This has resulted in, as mentioned in case study Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video - staying ahead in the industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
Operational resilience
– The operational resilience strategy in the Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video Harvard Business Review case study comprises – understanding the underlying the factors in the industry, building diversified operations across different geographies so that disruption in one part of the world doesn’t impact the overall performance of the firm, and integrating the various business operations and processes through its digital transformation drive.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of 409058 Teena in the segment is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Learning organization
- 409058 Teena is a learning organization. It has inculcated three key characters of learning organization in its processes and operations – exploration, creativity, and expansiveness. The work place at 409058 Teena is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders in Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video Harvard Business Review case study emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
Organizational Resilience of 409058 Teena
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing that 409058 Teena does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the 409058 Teena are driving operational speed, building greater agility, and keeping the organization nimble to compete with new competitors. It helps are organization to ideate new ideas, and execute them swiftly in the marketplace.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in Organizational Development industry
– Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video firm has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled 409058 Teena to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the Organizational Development industry. The sustainable margins have also helped 409058 Teena to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
Weaknesses Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video are -
Slow to harness new channels of communication
– Even though competitors are using new communication channels such as Instagram, Tiktok, and Snap, 409058 Teena is slow explore the new channels of communication. These new channels of communication mentioned in marketing section of case study Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video can help to provide better information regarding products and services. It can also build an online community to further reach out to potential customers.
Lack of clear differentiation of 409058 Teena products
– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, 409058 Teena needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.
Need for greater diversity
– 409058 Teena has taken concrete steps on diversity, equity, and inclusion. But the efforts so far has resulted in limited success. It needs to expand the recruitment and selection process to hire more people from the minorities and underprivileged background.
High dependence on star products
– The top 2 products and services of the firm as mentioned in the Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video HBR case study still accounts for major business revenue. This dependence on star products in has resulted into insufficient focus on developing new products, even though 409058 Teena has relatively successful track record of launching new products.
Employees’ incomplete understanding of strategy
– From the instances in the HBR case study Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video, it seems that the employees of 409058 Teena don’t have comprehensive understanding of the firm’s strategy. This is reflected in number of promotional campaigns over the last few years that had mixed messaging and competing priorities. Some of the strategic activities and services promoted in the promotional campaigns were not consistent with the organization’s strategy.
Interest costs
– Compare to the competition, 409058 Teena has borrowed money from the capital market at higher rates. It needs to restructure the interest payment and costs so that it can compete better and improve profitability.
Slow decision making process
– As mentioned earlier in the report, 409058 Teena has a very deliberative decision making approach. This approach has resulted in prudent decisions, but it has also resulted in missing opportunities in the industry over the last five years. 409058 Teena even though has strong showing on digital transformation primary two stages, it has struggled to capitalize the power of digital transformation in marketing efforts and new venture efforts.
Workers concerns about automation
– As automation is fast increasing in the segment, 409058 Teena needs to come up with a strategy to reduce the workers concern regarding automation. Without a clear strategy, it could lead to disruption and uncertainty within the organization.
Slow to strategic competitive environment developments
– As Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video HBR case study mentions - 409058 Teena takes time to assess the upcoming competitions. This has led to missing out on atleast 2-3 big opportunities in the industry in last five years.
Capital Spending Reduction
– Even during the low interest decade, 409058 Teena has not been able to do capital spending to the tune of the competition. This has resulted into fewer innovations and company facing stiff competition from both existing competitors and new entrants who are disrupting the industry using digital technology.
High operating costs
– Compare to the competitors, firm in the HBR case study Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video has high operating costs in the. This can be harder to sustain given the new emerging competition from nimble players who are using technology to attract 409058 Teena 's lucrative customers.
Opportunities Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video | External Strategic Factors
What are Opportunities in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The opportunities highlighted in the Harvard Business Review case study Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video are -
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of 409058 Teena has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in the industry. This can help 409058 Teena to build a more holistic ecosystem as suggested in the Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video case study. 409058 Teena can build new products and services such as - data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.
Reforming the budgeting process
- By establishing new metrics that will be used to evaluate both existing and potential projects 409058 Teena can not only reduce the costs of the project but also help it in integrating the projects with other processes within the organization.
Leveraging digital technologies
– 409058 Teena can leverage digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate the production process, customer analytics to get better insights into consumer behavior, realtime digital dashboards to get better sales tracking, logistics and transportation, product tracking, etc.
Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities
– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for 409058 Teena to expand its talent hiring zone. According to McKinsey Global Institute, 20% of the high end workforce in fields such as finance, information technology, can continously work from remote local post Covid-19. This presents a really great opportunity for 409058 Teena to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, 409058 Teena can build a diversified supply chain model across various countries in - South East Asia, India, and other parts of the world. This reconfiguration of global supply chain can help, as suggested in case study, Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video, to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Buying journey improvements
– 409058 Teena can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video suggest that firm can provide automated chats to help consumers solve their own problems, provide online suggestions to get maximum out of the products and services, and help consumers to build a community where they can interact with each other to develop new features and uses.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for 409058 Teena to conduct training and development for its employees across the world. This will result in not only reducing the cost of training but also help employees in different part of the world to integrate with the headquarter work culture, ethos, and standards.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, 409058 Teena can still utilize the low interest rates to borrow money for capital investment. Secondly it can also use the increase of government spending in infrastructure projects to get new business.
Lowering marketing communication costs
– 5G expansion will open new opportunities for 409058 Teena in the field of marketing communication. It will bring down the cost of doing business, provide technology platform to build new products in the Organizational Development segment, and it will provide faster access to the consumers.
Finding new ways to collaborate
– Covid-19 has not only transformed business models of companies in Organizational Development industry, but it has also influenced the consumer preferences. 409058 Teena can tie-up with other value chain partners to explore new opportunities regarding meeting customer demands and building a rewarding and engaging relationship.
Loyalty marketing
– 409058 Teena has focused on building a highly responsive customer relationship management platform. This platform is built on in-house data and driven by analytics and artificial intelligence. The customer analytics can help the organization to fine tune its loyalty marketing efforts, increase the wallet share of the organization, reduce wastage on mainstream advertising spending, build better pricing strategies using personalization, etc.
Use of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies for transactions
– The popularity of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies as asset class and medium of transaction has opened new opportunities for 409058 Teena in the consumer business. Now 409058 Teena can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help 409058 Teena to increase its market reach. 409058 Teena will be able to reach out to new customers. Secondly 5G will also provide technology framework to build new tools and products that can help more immersive consumer experience and faster consumer journey.
Threats Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video are -
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– 409058 Teena can face lack of demand in the market place because of Fed actions to reduce inflation. This can lead to sluggish growth in the economy, lower demands, lower investments, higher borrowing costs, and consolidation in the field.
Aging population
– As the populations of most advanced economies are aging, it will lead to high social security costs, higher savings among population, and lower demand for goods and services in the economy. The household savings in US, France, UK, Germany, and Japan are growing faster than predicted because of uncertainty caused by pandemic.
Environmental challenges
– 409058 Teena needs to have a robust strategy against the disruptions arising from climate change and energy requirements. EU has identified it as key priority area and spending 30% of its 880 billion Euros European post Covid-19 recovery funds on green technology. 409058 Teena can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Organizational Development industry.
New competition
– After the dotcom bust of 2001, financial crisis of 2008-09, the business formation in US economy had declined. But in 2020 alone, there are more than 1.5 million new business applications in United States. This can lead to greater competition for 409058 Teena in the Organizational Development sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that 409058 Teena is facing in Organizational Development sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
Technology disruption because of hacks, piracy etc
– The colonial pipeline illustrated, how vulnerable modern organization are to international hackers, miscreants, and disruptors. The cyber security interruption, data leaks, etc can seriously jeopardize the future growth of the organization.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, 409058 Teena can face downward pressure on margins from increasing competition from international players. The international players have stable revenue in their home market and can use those resources to penetrate prominent markets illustrated in HBR case study Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video .
Consumer confidence and its impact on 409058 Teena demand
– There is a high probability of declining consumer confidence, given – high inflammation rate, rise of gig economy, lower job stability, increasing cost of living, higher interest rates, and aging demography. All the factors contribute to people saving higher rate of their income, resulting in lower consumer demand in the industry and other sectors.
Capital market disruption
– During the Covid-19, Dow Jones has touched record high. The valuations of a number of companies are way beyond their existing business model potential. This can lead to capital market correction which can put a number of suppliers, collaborators, value chain partners in great financial difficulty. It will directly impact the business of 409058 Teena.
High level of anxiety and lack of motivation
– the Great Resignation in United States is the sign of broader dissatisfaction among the workforce in United States. 409058 Teena needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Organizational Development industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
High dependence on third party suppliers
– 409058 Teena high dependence on third party suppliers can disrupt its processes and delivery mechanism. For example -the current troubles of car makers because of chip shortage is because the chip companies started producing chips for electronic companies rather than car manufacturers.
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– 409058 Teena has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Organizational Development industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, 409058 Teena needs to keep up with the evolution of technology in the Organizational Development sector. According to Mckinsey study top managers believe that the adoption of technology in operations, communications is 20-25 times faster than what they planned in the beginning of 2019.
Regulatory challenges
– 409058 Teena needs to prepare for regulatory challenges as consumer protection groups and other pressure groups are vigorously advocating for more regulations on big business - to reduce inequality, to create a level playing field, to product data privacy and consumer privacy, to reduce the influence of big money on democratic institutions, etc. This can lead to significant changes in the Organizational Development industry regulations.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video Template, Example
Not all factors mentioned under the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats quadrants in the SWOT Analysis are equal. Managers in the HBR case study Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video needs to zero down on the relative importance of each factor mentioned in the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats quadrants.
We can provide the relative importance to each factor by assigning relative weights. Weighted SWOT analysis process is a three stage process –
First stage for doing weighted SWOT analysis of the case study Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video is to rank the strengths and weaknesses of the organization. This will help you to assess the most important strengths and weaknesses of the firm and which one of the strengths and weaknesses mentioned in the initial lists are marginal and can be left out.
Second stage for conducting weighted SWOT analysis of the Harvard case study Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video is to give probabilities to the external strategic factors thus better understanding the opportunities and threats arising out of macro environment changes and developments.
Third stage of constructing weighted SWOT analysis of Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital, Video is to provide strategic recommendations includes – joining likelihood of external strategic factors such as opportunities and threats to the internal strategic factors – strengths and weaknesses. You should start with external factors as they will provide the direction of the overall industry. Secondly by joining probabilities with internal strategic factors can help the company not only strategic fit but also the most probably strategic trade-off that 409058 Teena needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.