Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
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Case Study Description of Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version
This simulation involves a negotiation between a real estate developer and a prospective anchor tenant in a proposed shopping center. Students are assigned roles, given confidential information, and asked to try to break the impasse over the "use, assignment, and subletting" clause. Debriefing the results in class should illustrate the possibility of generating joint gains through interest-based negotiation--and the obstacles to such a process. Technical knowledge of real estate issues is not assumed.
Swot Analysis of "Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version" written by Michael A. Wheeler includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Confidential Subletting facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Negotiations and Strategy & Execution.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version casestudy better are - – increasing inequality as vast percentage of new income is going to the top 1%, there is backlash against globalization, technology disruption, customer relationship management is fast transforming because of increasing concerns over data privacy, challanges to central banks by blockchain based private currencies, there is increasing trade war between United States & China, supply chains are disrupted by pandemic ,
wage bills are increasing, increasing transportation and logistics costs, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Confidential Subletting, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Confidential Subletting 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 Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Confidential Subletting
3. Assessing feasibility of the new initiative in Strategy & Execution field.
4. Making a Strategy & Execution topic specific business decision
5. Set goals for the organization
6. Organizational restructuring of Confidential Subletting
Strengths Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Confidential Subletting in Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version Harvard Business Review case study are -
Operational resilience
– The operational resilience strategy in the Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version 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 Confidential Subletting 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 Confidential Subletting in the sector have low bargaining power. Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Confidential Subletting to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– Confidential Subletting 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 Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version - staying ahead in the industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
Analytics focus
– Confidential Subletting 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 Michael A. Wheeler 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.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Confidential Subletting 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 Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version HBR case study have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
High switching costs
– The high switching costs that Confidential Subletting 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.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the Confidential Subletting 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.
Organizational Resilience of Confidential Subletting
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing that Confidential Subletting does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
High brand equity
– Confidential Subletting has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Confidential Subletting to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Learning organization
- Confidential Subletting 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 Confidential Subletting is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders in Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version Harvard Business Review case study emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
Diverse revenue streams
– Confidential Subletting is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version 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.
Weaknesses Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version are -
Employees’ incomplete understanding of strategy
– From the instances in the HBR case study Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version, it seems that the employees of Confidential Subletting 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.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative, highlighted in the case study Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version, in the dynamic environment Confidential Subletting has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Confidential Subletting has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
Low market penetration in new markets
– Outside its home market of Confidential Subletting, firm in the HBR case study Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version needs to spend more promotional, marketing, and advertising efforts to penetrate international markets.
Capital Spending Reduction
– Even during the low interest decade, Confidential Subletting 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.
Skills based hiring
– The stress on hiring functional specialists at Confidential Subletting has created an environment where the organization is dominated by functional specialists rather than management generalist. This has resulted into product oriented approach rather than marketing oriented approach or consumers oriented approach.
Lack of clear differentiation of Confidential Subletting products
– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, Confidential Subletting needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.
High cash cycle compare to competitors
Confidential Subletting has a high cash cycle compare to other players in the industry. It needs to shorten the cash cycle by 12% to be more competitive in the marketplace, reduce inventory costs, and be more profitable.
Aligning sales with marketing
– It come across in the case study Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version 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 Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Confidential Subletting is planning to shift buying processes online.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee as mentioned in the HBR case study Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version, is just above the industry average. Confidential Subletting 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.
Need for greater diversity
– Confidential Subletting 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 operating costs
– Compare to the competitors, firm in the HBR case study Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version 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 Confidential Subletting 's lucrative customers.
Opportunities Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version | 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 Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version are -
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, Confidential Subletting 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, Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version, to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Confidential Subletting 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.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Confidential Subletting 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.
Buying journey improvements
– Confidential Subletting can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version 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.
Manufacturing automation
– Confidential Subletting can use the latest technology developments to improve its manufacturing and designing process in Strategy & Execution 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.
Building a culture of innovation
– managers at Confidential Subletting can make experimentation a productive activity and build a culture of innovation using approaches such as – mining transaction data, A/B testing of websites and selling platforms, engaging potential customers over various needs, and building on small ideas in the Strategy & Execution segment.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Confidential Subletting 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 Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Confidential Subletting to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
Identify volunteer opportunities
– Covid-19 has impacted working population in two ways – it has led to people soul searching about their professional choices, resulting in mass resignation. Secondly it has encouraged people to do things that they are passionate about. This has opened opportunities for businesses to build volunteer oriented socially driven projects. Confidential Subletting can explore opportunities that can attract volunteers and are consistent with its mission and vision.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, Confidential Subletting 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.
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 Confidential Subletting 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.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Confidential Subletting has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in the industry. This can help Confidential Subletting to build a more holistic ecosystem as suggested in the Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version case study. Confidential Subletting can build new products and services such as - data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.
Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities
– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for Confidential Subletting 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 Confidential Subletting to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.
Loyalty marketing
– Confidential Subletting 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.
Threats Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version are -
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 Confidential Subletting.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Confidential Subletting 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 Confidential Subletting in the Strategy & Execution sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
Environmental challenges
– Confidential Subletting 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. Confidential Subletting can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Strategy & Execution industry.
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. Confidential Subletting needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Strategy & Execution industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
Consumer confidence and its impact on Confidential Subletting 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.
Learning curve for new practices
– As the technology based on artificial intelligence and machine learning platform is getting complex, as highlighted in case study Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version, Confidential Subletting may face longer learning curve for training and development of existing employees. This can open space for more nimble competitors in the field of Strategy & Execution .
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. Confidential Subletting 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.
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– Confidential Subletting has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Strategy & Execution industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Confidential Subletting needs to keep up with the evolution of technology in the Strategy & Execution 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.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Confidential Subletting 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 Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version .
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 Confidential Subletting business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Confidential Subletting 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.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version 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 Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version 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 Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version 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 Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version 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 Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord, Spanish Version 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 Confidential Subletting needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
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