Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

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Case Study Description of Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B

While violence against children in Turkey was widespread, people across the country were shocked by the news of seven atrocious child molestation cases,one after another over the course of a week in April 2010. AyAYen A?zyeAYin, Founder and President of the Mother Child Education Foundation (in Turkish, Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), a nonprofit organization devoted to supporting disadvantaged children and their families and promoting early childhood education, called a Board meeting to discuss whether the organization should assume a role in addressing the child protection crisis. ACEV's leaders prepared to present recommendations to their fellow Board Members and to consider decisions critical for both the agency's future and for Turkey's children.

Authors :: Yasemin Sirali, Jacqueline Bhabha

Topics :: Strategy & Execution

Tags :: Strategic planning, SWOT Analysis, SWOT Matrix, TOWS, Weighted SWOT Analysis

Swot Analysis of "Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B" written by Yasemin Sirali, Jacqueline Bhabha includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Child A facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Strategic planning and Strategy & Execution.

Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B casestudy better are - – increasing government debt because of Covid-19 spendings, increasing transportation and logistics costs, there is increasing trade war between United States & China, supply chains are disrupted by pandemic , talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, cloud computing is disrupting traditional business models, increasing energy prices, geopolitical disruptions, competitive advantages are harder to sustain because of technology dispersion, etc

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Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B

SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Child A, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Child A 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.

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SWOT Objectives / Importance of SWOT Analysis and SWOT Matrix

SWOT analysis of Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Child A
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 Child A

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Strengths Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The strengths of Child A in Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B Harvard Business Review case study are -

Digital Transformation in Strategy & Execution segment

- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Child A digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Child A has successfully integrated the four key components of digital transformation – digital integration in processes, digital integration in marketing and customer relationship management, digital integration into the value chain, and using technology to explore new products and market opportunities.

Effective Research and Development (R&D)

– Child A 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 Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B - staying ahead in the industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.

Diverse revenue streams

– Child A is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B 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.

Superior customer experience

– The customer experience strategy of Child A in the segment is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.

Ability to recruit top talent

– Child A is one of the leading recruiters in the industry. Managers in the Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B are in a position to attract the best talent available. The firm has a robust talent identification program that helps in identifying the brightest.

Organizational Resilience of Child A

– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing that Child A does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.

Analytics focus

– Child A 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 Yasemin Sirali, Jacqueline Bhabha 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.

Innovation driven organization

– Child A is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B Harvard Business Review case study can use Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation strategies to further increase the scale of innovtions in the organization.

Cross disciplinary teams

– Horizontal connected teams at the Child A 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

– Child A 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 Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B 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 Child A 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.

High brand equity

– Child A has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Child A to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.

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Weaknesses Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The weaknesses of Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B are -

High cash cycle compare to competitors

Child A 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.

Employees’ incomplete understanding of strategy

– From the instances in the HBR case study Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B, it seems that the employees of Child A 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.

Skills based hiring

– The stress on hiring functional specialists at Child A 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.

Ability to respond to the competition

– As the decision making is very deliberative, highlighted in the case study Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B, in the dynamic environment Child A has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Child A has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.

Lack of clear differentiation of Child A products

– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, Child A needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.

Aligning sales with marketing

– It come across in the case study Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B 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 Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Child A is planning to shift buying processes online.

Capital Spending Reduction

– Even during the low interest decade, Child A 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.

Interest costs

– Compare to the competition, Child A 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.

High dependence on star products

– The top 2 products and services of the firm as mentioned in the Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B 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 Child A has relatively successful track record of launching new products.

Slow to harness new channels of communication

– Even though competitors are using new communication channels such as Instagram, Tiktok, and Snap, Child A is slow explore the new channels of communication. These new channels of communication mentioned in marketing section of case study Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B can help to provide better information regarding products and services. It can also build an online community to further reach out to potential customers.

Products dominated business model

– Even though Child A 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 - Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.

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Opportunities Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B | 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 Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B are -

Reforming the budgeting process

- By establishing new metrics that will be used to evaluate both existing and potential projects Child A can not only reduce the costs of the project but also help it in integrating the projects with other processes within the organization.

Leveraging digital technologies

– Child A 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.

Learning at scale

– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Child A 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.

Manufacturing automation

– Child A 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.

Increase in government spending

– As the United States and other governments are increasing social spending and infrastructure spending to build economies post Covid-19, Child A can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that Child A operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in Strategy & Execution sector.

Low interest rates

– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, Child A 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 Child A 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.

Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities

– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for Child A 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 Child A to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.

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 Child A in the consumer business. Now Child A can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.

Building a culture of innovation

– managers at Child A 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.

Buying journey improvements

– Child A can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B 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.

Using analytics as competitive advantage

– Child A 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 Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Child A to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.

Lowering marketing communication costs

– 5G expansion will open new opportunities for Child A in the field of marketing communication. It will bring down the cost of doing business, provide technology platform to build new products in the Strategy & Execution segment, and it will provide faster access to the consumers.

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Threats Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B are -

Consumer confidence and its impact on Child A 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.

Trade war between China and United States

– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for Child A 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.

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.

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 Child A business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.

Learning curve for new practices

– As the technology based on artificial intelligence and machine learning platform is getting complex, as highlighted in case study Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B, Child A 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 .

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 Child A in the Strategy & Execution sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.

Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins

– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Child A 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 Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B .

Stagnating economy with rate increase

– Child A 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.

Environmental challenges

– Child A 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. Child A can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Strategy & Execution industry.

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 Child A.

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. Child A can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.

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. Child A 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.

Barriers of entry lowering

– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Child A with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the sector.

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Weighted SWOT Analysis of Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B 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 Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B 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 Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B 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 Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B 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 Turkey's Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne A?ocuk EAYitim VakfA?-AA?EV), Part B 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 Child A needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.

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