Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
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Case Study Description of Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan
This article examines the interactions between public and private actors as cooperation in the semiconductor industry becomes increasingly international. The latest manifestations of multilateral collaboration are two consortia: I300I based in the United States and Selete based in Japan. Through an analysis of their structures and their origins, this article provides a deeper understanding of the complexities facing industry-wide consortia, the role of the government in promoting or inhibiting cooperation, and the lingering rivalries that impede truly global cooperation in a dynamic, high-technology industry.
Authors :: Rose Marie Ham, Greg Linden, Melissa M. Appleyard
Swot Analysis of "Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan" written by Rose Marie Ham, Greg Linden, Melissa M. Appleyard includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Consortia Cooperation facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Policy and Strategy & Execution.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan casestudy better are - – increasing government debt because of Covid-19 spendings, customer relationship management is fast transforming because of increasing concerns over data privacy, banking and financial system is disrupted by Bitcoin and other crypto currencies, technology disruption, increasing energy prices, increasing transportation and logistics costs, there is backlash against globalization,
increasing inequality as vast percentage of new income is going to the top 1%, there is increasing trade war between United States & China, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Consortia Cooperation, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Consortia Cooperation 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 Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Consortia Cooperation
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 Consortia Cooperation
Strengths Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Consortia Cooperation in Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan Harvard Business Review case study are -
Innovation driven organization
– Consortia Cooperation is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan Harvard Business Review case study can use Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation strategies to further increase the scale of innovtions in the organization.
High brand equity
– Consortia Cooperation has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Consortia Cooperation to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Organizational Resilience of Consortia Cooperation
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing that Consortia Cooperation does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
High switching costs
– The high switching costs that Consortia Cooperation 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.
Digital Transformation in Strategy & Execution segment
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Consortia Cooperation digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Consortia Cooperation 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.
Strong track record of project management
– Consortia Cooperation is known for sticking to its project targets. This enables the firm to manage – time, project costs, and have sustainable margins on the projects.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of Consortia Cooperation 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 Consortia Cooperation in the sector have low bargaining power. Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Consortia Cooperation to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Diverse revenue streams
– Consortia Cooperation is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan 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.
Operational resilience
– The operational resilience strategy in the Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan 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.
Learning organization
- Consortia Cooperation 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 Consortia Cooperation is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders in Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan Harvard Business Review case study emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
Training and development
– Consortia Cooperation has one of the best training and development program in the industry. The effectiveness of the training programs can be measured in Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan 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.
Weaknesses Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan are -
Slow decision making process
– As mentioned earlier in the report, Consortia Cooperation 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. Consortia Cooperation 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.
Skills based hiring
– The stress on hiring functional specialists at Consortia Cooperation 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.
Products dominated business model
– Even though Consortia Cooperation 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 - Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.
Interest costs
– Compare to the competition, Consortia Cooperation 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.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee as mentioned in the HBR case study Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan, is just above the industry average. Consortia Cooperation 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.
Low market penetration in new markets
– Outside its home market of Consortia Cooperation, firm in the HBR case study Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan needs to spend more promotional, marketing, and advertising efforts to penetrate international markets.
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of Consortia Cooperation is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Strategy & Execution segment. Consortia Cooperation needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Consortia Cooperation to focus more on services rather than just following the product oriented approach.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative, highlighted in the case study Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan, in the dynamic environment Consortia Cooperation has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Consortia Cooperation has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
Need for greater diversity
– Consortia Cooperation 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.
Aligning sales with marketing
– It come across in the case study Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan 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 Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Consortia Cooperation is planning to shift buying processes online.
Workers concerns about automation
– As automation is fast increasing in the segment, Consortia Cooperation 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.
Opportunities Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan | 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 Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan 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, Consortia Cooperation can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that Consortia Cooperation operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in Strategy & Execution sector.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, Consortia Cooperation 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, Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan, to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Consortia Cooperation 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.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Consortia Cooperation 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 Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Consortia Cooperation to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help Consortia Cooperation to increase its market reach. Consortia Cooperation 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.
Building a culture of innovation
– managers at Consortia Cooperation 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.
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. Consortia Cooperation can explore opportunities that can attract volunteers and are consistent with its mission and vision.
Buying journey improvements
– Consortia Cooperation can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan 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.
Loyalty marketing
– Consortia Cooperation 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.
Manufacturing automation
– Consortia Cooperation 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.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Consortia Cooperation 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.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Consortia Cooperation has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in the industry. This can help Consortia Cooperation to build a more holistic ecosystem as suggested in the Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan case study. Consortia Cooperation can build new products and services such as - data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.
Changes in consumer behavior post Covid-19
– Consumer behavior has changed in the Strategy & Execution industry because of Covid-19 restrictions. Some of this behavior will stay once things get back to normal. Consortia Cooperation 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. Consortia Cooperation 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.
Threats Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan are -
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that Consortia Cooperation is facing in Strategy & Execution sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
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 Consortia Cooperation.
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 Consortia Cooperation in the Strategy & Execution sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Consortia Cooperation 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.
High dependence on third party suppliers
– Consortia Cooperation 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 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.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Consortia Cooperation with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the sector.
Consumer confidence and its impact on Consortia Cooperation 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.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Consortia Cooperation 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 Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan .
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 Consortia Cooperation business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
Increasing wage structure of Consortia Cooperation
– Post Covid-19 there is a sharp increase in the wages especially in the jobs that require interaction with people. The increasing wages can put downward pressure on the margins of Consortia Cooperation.
Regulatory challenges
– Consortia Cooperation 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 Strategy & Execution industry regulations.
Environmental challenges
– Consortia Cooperation 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. Consortia Cooperation can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Strategy & Execution industry.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan 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 Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan 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 Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan 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 Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan 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 Evolving Role of Semiconductor Consortia in the United States and Japan 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 Consortia Cooperation needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
