Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
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Case Study Description of Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case
Ankur Arora Murder Case (AAMC) was billed as the first medical negligence drama coming out of the Hindi movie industry in Mumbai (popularly referred to as Bollywood). Inspired by true events, the film received good critical response even though it was not the routine song-and-dance fare produced by most production houses. The project was beset by certain constraints, both external and intrinsic to the team. The producer of the movie was convinced that he would have a very good product once the hurdles created by legalities and other marketing-related issues were sorted out. His team had created a comprehensive marketing communications plan for the release of the movie to exploit the emotions evoked by such a sensitive subject. The box-office failure of the movie made the producer consider whether his strategy of arranging the finances of a project would work well or whether he should attempt to manage all future projects in their entirety, including production and marketing. Soumya Sarkar is affiliated with Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur.
Swot Analysis of "Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case" written by Soumya Sarkar, Ami Shah includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Movie Ankur facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, and Sales & Marketing.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case casestudy better are - – digital marketing is dominated by two big players Facebook and Google, talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, cloud computing is disrupting traditional business models, customer relationship management is fast transforming because of increasing concerns over data privacy, there is increasing trade war between United States & China, wage bills are increasing, there is backlash against globalization,
technology disruption, supply chains are disrupted by pandemic , etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Movie Ankur, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Movie Ankur 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 Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Movie Ankur
3. Assessing feasibility of the new initiative in Sales & Marketing field.
4. Making a Sales & Marketing topic specific business decision
5. Set goals for the organization
6. Organizational restructuring of Movie Ankur
Strengths Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Movie Ankur in Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case Harvard Business Review case study are -
Diverse revenue streams
– Movie Ankur is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case case study a diverse revenue stream that has helped it to survive disruptions such as global pandemic in Covid-19, financial disruption of 2008, and supply chain disruption of 2021.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the Movie Ankur 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.
Ability to recruit top talent
– Movie Ankur is one of the leading recruiters in the industry. Managers in the Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case are in a position to attract the best talent available. The firm has a robust talent identification program that helps in identifying the brightest.
Ability to lead change in Sales & Marketing field
– Movie Ankur is one of the leading players in its industry. Over the years it has not only transformed the business landscape in its segment but also across the whole industry. The ability to lead change has enabled Movie Ankur in – penetrating new markets, reaching out to new customers, and providing different value propositions to different customers in the international markets.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of Movie Ankur in the segment is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of Movie Ankur in the sector have low bargaining power. Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Movie Ankur to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Training and development
– Movie Ankur has one of the best training and development program in the industry. The effectiveness of the training programs can be measured in Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case Harvard Business Review case study by analyzing – employees retention, in-house promotion, loyalty, new venture initiation, lack of conflict, and high level of both employees and customer engagement.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in Sales & Marketing industry
– Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case firm has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled Movie Ankur to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the Sales & Marketing industry. The sustainable margins have also helped Movie Ankur to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
Successful track record of launching new products
– Movie Ankur has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Movie Ankur has effective processes in place that helps in exploring new product needs, doing quick pilot testing, and then launching the products quickly using its extensive distribution network.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Movie Ankur has highly efficient outsourcing and offshoring strategy. It has resulted in greater operational flexibility and bringing down the costs in highly price sensitive segment. Secondly the value chain collaborators of the firm in Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case HBR case study have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Strong track record of project management
– Movie Ankur is known for sticking to its project targets. This enables the firm to manage – time, project costs, and have sustainable margins on the projects.
Analytics focus
– Movie Ankur is putting a lot of focus on utilizing the power of analytics in business decision making. This has put it among the leading players in the industry. The technology infrastructure suggested by Soumya Sarkar, Ami Shah can also help it to harness the power of analytics for – marketing optimization, demand forecasting, customer relationship management, inventory management, information sharing across the value chain etc.
Weaknesses Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case are -
Products dominated business model
– Even though Movie Ankur has some of the most successful products in the industry, this business model has made each new product launch extremely critical for continuous financial growth of the organization. firm in the HBR case study - Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.
Workers concerns about automation
– As automation is fast increasing in the segment, Movie Ankur 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.
Aligning sales with marketing
– It come across in the case study Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case that the firm needs to have more collaboration between its sales team and marketing team. Sales professionals in the industry have deep experience in developing customer relationships. Marketing department in the case Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Movie Ankur is planning to shift buying processes online.
No frontier risks strategy
– After analyzing the HBR case study Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case, it seems that company is thinking about the frontier risks that can impact Sales & Marketing strategy. But it has very little resources allocation to manage the risks emerging from events such as natural disasters, climate change, melting of permafrost, tacking the rise of artificial intelligence, opportunities and threats emerging from commercialization of space etc.
Interest costs
– Compare to the competition, Movie Ankur 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.
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of Movie Ankur is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Sales & Marketing segment. Movie Ankur needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Movie Ankur to focus more on services rather than just following the product oriented approach.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee as mentioned in the HBR case study Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case, is just above the industry average. Movie Ankur needs to redesign the compensation structure and incentives to increase the revenue per employees. Some of the steps that it can take are – hiring more specialists on project basis, etc.
High dependence on star products
– The top 2 products and services of the firm as mentioned in the Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case 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 Movie Ankur has relatively successful track record of launching new products.
Slow decision making process
– As mentioned earlier in the report, Movie Ankur 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. Movie Ankur 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.
High operating costs
– Compare to the competitors, firm in the HBR case study Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case 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 Movie Ankur 's lucrative customers.
Employees’ incomplete understanding of strategy
– From the instances in the HBR case study Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case, it seems that the employees of Movie Ankur 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.
Opportunities Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case | 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 Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case are -
Increase in government spending
– As the United States and other governments are increasing social spending and infrastructure spending to build economies post Covid-19, Movie Ankur can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that Movie Ankur operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in Sales & Marketing sector.
Buying journey improvements
– Movie Ankur can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case 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.
Reforming the budgeting process
- By establishing new metrics that will be used to evaluate both existing and potential projects Movie Ankur can not only reduce the costs of the project but also help it in integrating the projects with other processes within the organization.
Manufacturing automation
– Movie Ankur can use the latest technology developments to improve its manufacturing and designing process in Sales & Marketing segment. It can use CAD and 3D printing to build a quick prototype and pilot testing products. It can leverage automation using machine learning and artificial intelligence to do faster production at lowers costs, and it can leverage the growth in satellite and tracking technologies to improve inventory management, transportation, and shipping.
Loyalty marketing
– Movie Ankur 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.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Movie Ankur 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.
Reconfiguring business model
– The expansion of digital payment system, the bringing down of international transactions costs using Bitcoin and other blockchain based currencies, etc can help Movie Ankur to reconfigure its entire business model. For example it can used blockchain based technologies to reduce piracy of its products in the big markets such as China. Secondly it can use the popularity of e-commerce in various developing markets to build a Direct to Customer business model rather than the current Channel Heavy distribution network.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Movie Ankur 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.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Movie Ankur has spent a significant amount of money and effort to integrate analytics and machine learning into its operations in the sector. This continuous investment in analytics has enabled, as illustrated in the Harvard case study Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Movie Ankur to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, Movie Ankur 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, Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case, to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Changes in consumer behavior post Covid-19
– Consumer behavior has changed in the Sales & Marketing industry because of Covid-19 restrictions. Some of this behavior will stay once things get back to normal. Movie Ankur can take advantage of these changes in consumer behavior to build a far more efficient business model. For example consumer regular ordering of products can reduce both last mile delivery costs and market penetration costs. Movie Ankur can further use this consumer data to build better customer loyalty, provide better products and service collection, and improve the value proposition in inflationary times.
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 Movie Ankur in the consumer business. Now Movie Ankur 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 Movie Ankur to increase its market reach. Movie Ankur 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 Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case are -
Consumer confidence and its impact on Movie Ankur 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.
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. Movie Ankur needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Sales & Marketing industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– Movie Ankur has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Sales & Marketing industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Movie Ankur needs to keep up with the evolution of technology in the Sales & Marketing 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.
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.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Movie Ankur 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.
Regulatory challenges
– Movie Ankur 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 Sales & Marketing industry regulations.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Movie Ankur 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 Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case .
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Movie Ankur with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the sector.
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 Movie Ankur in the Sales & Marketing sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
Instability in the European markets
– European Union markets are facing three big challenges post Covid – expanded balance sheets, Brexit related business disruption, and aggressive Russia looking to distract the existing security mechanism. Movie Ankur will face different problems in different parts of Europe. For example it will face inflationary pressures in UK, France, and Germany, balance sheet expansion and demand challenges in Southern European countries, and geopolitical instability in the Eastern Europe.
High dependence on third party suppliers
– Movie Ankur 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.
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 Movie Ankur.
Backlash against dominant players
– US Congress and other legislative arms of the government are getting tough on big business especially technology companies. The digital arm of Movie Ankur business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case 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 Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case 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 Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case 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 Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case 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 Marketing of a Bollywood Film: Ankur Arora Murder Case 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 Movie Ankur needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.