Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
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Case Study Description of Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air
The case illustrates how seeming good strategy (in terms of content) can fail in the process of implementation. A brilliant CEO strategist failed to convince his employees to buy into his strategic vision by trying to implement it too quickly.
Swot Analysis of "Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air" written by Quy Nguyen Huy, Lisa Duke includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Brilliant Strategist facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Government, Labor, Psychology, Strategy execution and Strategy & Execution.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air casestudy better are - – increasing commodity prices, talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, there is backlash against globalization, increasing inequality as vast percentage of new income is going to the top 1%, geopolitical disruptions, cloud computing is disrupting traditional business models, supply chains are disrupted by pandemic ,
there is increasing trade war between United States & China, increasing energy prices, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Brilliant Strategist, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Brilliant Strategist 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 Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Brilliant Strategist
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 Brilliant Strategist
Strengths Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Brilliant Strategist in Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air Harvard Business Review case study are -
Strong track record of project management
– Brilliant Strategist is known for sticking to its project targets. This enables the firm to manage – time, project costs, and have sustainable margins on the projects.
High switching costs
– The high switching costs that Brilliant Strategist 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.
Diverse revenue streams
– Brilliant Strategist is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air 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.
High brand equity
– Brilliant Strategist has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Brilliant Strategist to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Organizational Resilience of Brilliant Strategist
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing that Brilliant Strategist 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 Brilliant Strategist 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.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Brilliant Strategist 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 Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air HBR case study have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Analytics focus
– Brilliant Strategist 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 Quy Nguyen Huy, Lisa Duke 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.
Successful track record of launching new products
– Brilliant Strategist has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Brilliant Strategist 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.
Learning organization
- Brilliant Strategist 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 Brilliant Strategist is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders in Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air Harvard Business Review case study emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of Brilliant Strategist in the segment is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Digital Transformation in Strategy & Execution segment
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Brilliant Strategist digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Brilliant Strategist 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.
Weaknesses Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air are -
Interest costs
– Compare to the competition, Brilliant Strategist 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.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative, highlighted in the case study Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air, in the dynamic environment Brilliant Strategist has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Brilliant Strategist has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
High bargaining power of channel partners
– Because of the regulatory requirements, Quy Nguyen Huy, Lisa Duke suggests that, Brilliant Strategist is facing high bargaining power of the channel partners. So far it has not able to streamline the operations to reduce the bargaining power of the value chain partners in the industry.
High dependence on star products
– The top 2 products and services of the firm as mentioned in the Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air 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 Brilliant Strategist has relatively successful track record of launching new products.
Slow to strategic competitive environment developments
– As Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air HBR case study mentions - Brilliant Strategist 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.
High dependence on existing supply chain
– The disruption in the global supply chains because of the Covid-19 pandemic and blockage of the Suez Canal illustrated the fragile nature of Brilliant Strategist supply chain. Even after few cautionary changes mentioned in the HBR case study - Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air, it is still heavily dependent upon the existing supply chain. The existing supply chain though brings in cost efficiencies but it has left Brilliant Strategist vulnerable to further global disruptions in South East Asia.
Aligning sales with marketing
– It come across in the case study Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air 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 Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Brilliant Strategist is planning to shift buying processes online.
No frontier risks strategy
– After analyzing the HBR case study Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air, it seems that company is thinking about the frontier risks that can impact Strategy & Execution 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.
Low market penetration in new markets
– Outside its home market of Brilliant Strategist, firm in the HBR case study Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air needs to spend more promotional, marketing, and advertising efforts to penetrate international markets.
Slow to harness new channels of communication
– Even though competitors are using new communication channels such as Instagram, Tiktok, and Snap, Brilliant Strategist is slow explore the new channels of communication. These new channels of communication mentioned in marketing section of case study Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air can help to provide better information regarding products and services. It can also build an online community to further reach out to potential customers.
High cash cycle compare to competitors
Brilliant Strategist 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.
Opportunities Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air | 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 Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air are -
Finding new ways to collaborate
– Covid-19 has not only transformed business models of companies in Strategy & Execution industry, but it has also influenced the consumer preferences. Brilliant Strategist can tie-up with other value chain partners to explore new opportunities regarding meeting customer demands and building a rewarding and engaging relationship.
Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities
– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for Brilliant Strategist 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 Brilliant Strategist to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.
Increase in government spending
– As the United States and other governments are increasing social spending and infrastructure spending to build economies post Covid-19, Brilliant Strategist can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that Brilliant Strategist operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in Strategy & Execution sector.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Brilliant Strategist 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 Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Brilliant Strategist to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
Loyalty marketing
– Brilliant Strategist 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.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, Brilliant Strategist 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.
Manufacturing automation
– Brilliant Strategist 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.
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help Brilliant Strategist to increase its market reach. Brilliant Strategist 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.
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 Brilliant Strategist in the consumer business. Now Brilliant Strategist can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.
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 Brilliant Strategist 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.
Buying journey improvements
– Brilliant Strategist can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air 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.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Brilliant Strategist 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.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Brilliant Strategist has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in the industry. This can help Brilliant Strategist to build a more holistic ecosystem as suggested in the Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air case study. Brilliant Strategist can build new products and services such as - data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.
Threats Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air are -
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.
High dependence on third party suppliers
– Brilliant Strategist 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 Brilliant Strategist.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that Brilliant Strategist is facing in Strategy & Execution sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
Easy access to finance
– Easy access to finance in Strategy & Execution field will also reduce the barriers to entry in the industry, thus putting downward pressure on the prices because of increasing competition. Brilliant Strategist can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.
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 Brilliant Strategist in the Strategy & Execution sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Brilliant Strategist with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the sector.
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. Brilliant Strategist needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Strategy & Execution industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
Trade war between China and United States
– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for Brilliant Strategist in the Strategy & Execution industry. The Strategy & Execution industry is already at various protected from local competition in China, with the rise of trade war the protection levels may go up. This presents a clear threat of current business model in Chinese market.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Brilliant Strategist 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.
Learning curve for new practices
– As the technology based on artificial intelligence and machine learning platform is getting complex, as highlighted in case study Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air, Brilliant Strategist 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 .
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– Brilliant Strategist has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Strategy & Execution industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Brilliant Strategist 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, Brilliant Strategist 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 Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air .
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air 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 Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air 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 Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air 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 Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air 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 Strategy Execution and Collective Emotions: National Air 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 Brilliant Strategist needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
