CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
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Case Study Description of CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool?
CEOs face constant scrutiny over their compensation packages. This scrutiny has only intensified amid discussions of CEO-to-employee pay ratios and income inequality nationwide. CEO retirement packages are criticized as camouflage compensation used to award excessive compensation to CEOs and were, prior to 2006, less transparent than they are now. Thanks to the transparent disclosures now required by the SEC, we have a better understanding of the types and amounts of compensation owed to CEOs after they depart or retire, termed inside debt. I investigate whether all CEO inside debt components share similar incentive effects and offers some thoughts on how companies might structure these packages to be most effective. I discuss the structure and incentive effects of the two primary components of inside debt: deferred compensation and supplemental executive retirement plans (SERPs). I explain why inside debt, particularly CEO SERPs, may actually help companies manage firm risk. Finally, I outline the best ways to structure inside debt so that it functions as a resource to manage firm risk and foster a long-term perspective rather than mirroring the incentive effect of equity, increasing risk, and encouraging a myopic focus.
Swot Analysis of "CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool?" written by Colin D. Reid includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Inside Compensation facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Executive compensation, Internet and Leadership & Managing People.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? casestudy better are - – increasing commodity prices, digital marketing is dominated by two big players Facebook and Google, central banks are concerned over increasing inflation, there is increasing trade war between United States & China, talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, geopolitical disruptions, banking and financial system is disrupted by Bitcoin and other crypto currencies,
there is backlash against globalization, technology disruption, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool?
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Inside Compensation, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Inside Compensation 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 CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Inside Compensation
3. Assessing feasibility of the new initiative in Leadership & Managing People field.
4. Making a Leadership & Managing People topic specific business decision
5. Set goals for the organization
6. Organizational restructuring of Inside Compensation
Strengths CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Inside Compensation in CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? Harvard Business Review case study are -
High switching costs
– The high switching costs that Inside Compensation 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.
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of Inside Compensation in the sector have low bargaining power. CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Inside Compensation to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Operational resilience
– The operational resilience strategy in the CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? 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.
Strong track record of project management
– Inside Compensation is known for sticking to its project targets. This enables the firm to manage – time, project costs, and have sustainable margins on the projects.
Digital Transformation in Leadership & Managing People segment
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Inside Compensation digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Inside Compensation 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.
High brand equity
– Inside Compensation has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Inside Compensation to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the Inside Compensation 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.
Successful track record of launching new products
– Inside Compensation has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Inside Compensation 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.
Ability to recruit top talent
– Inside Compensation is one of the leading recruiters in the industry. Managers in the CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? are in a position to attract the best talent available. The firm has a robust talent identification program that helps in identifying the brightest.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in Leadership & Managing People industry
– CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? firm has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled Inside Compensation to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry. The sustainable margins have also helped Inside Compensation to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Inside Compensation 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 CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? HBR case study have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of Inside Compensation in the segment is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Weaknesses CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? are -
Employees’ incomplete understanding of strategy
– From the instances in the HBR case study CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool?, it seems that the employees of Inside Compensation 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.
Need for greater diversity
– Inside Compensation 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.
Slow to harness new channels of communication
– Even though competitors are using new communication channels such as Instagram, Tiktok, and Snap, Inside Compensation is slow explore the new channels of communication. These new channels of communication mentioned in marketing section of case study CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? can help to provide better information regarding products and services. It can also build an online community to further reach out to potential customers.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative, highlighted in the case study CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool?, in the dynamic environment Inside Compensation has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Inside Compensation has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
Slow to strategic competitive environment developments
– As CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? HBR case study mentions - Inside Compensation 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 operating costs
– Compare to the competitors, firm in the HBR case study CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? 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 Inside Compensation 's lucrative customers.
Low market penetration in new markets
– Outside its home market of Inside Compensation, firm in the HBR case study CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? needs to spend more promotional, marketing, and advertising efforts to penetrate international markets.
Products dominated business model
– Even though Inside Compensation 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 - CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.
No frontier risks strategy
– After analyzing the HBR case study CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool?, it seems that company is thinking about the frontier risks that can impact Leadership & Managing People 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.
Skills based hiring
– The stress on hiring functional specialists at Inside Compensation 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.
High bargaining power of channel partners
– Because of the regulatory requirements, Colin D. Reid suggests that, Inside Compensation 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.
Opportunities CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? | 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 CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? are -
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help Inside Compensation to increase its market reach. Inside Compensation 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.
Developing new processes and practices
– Inside Compensation can develop new processes and procedures in Leadership & Managing People industry using technology such as automation using artificial intelligence, real time transportation and products tracking, 3D modeling for concept development and new products pilot testing etc.
Reforming the budgeting process
- By establishing new metrics that will be used to evaluate both existing and potential projects Inside Compensation can not only reduce the costs of the project but also help it in integrating the projects with other processes within the organization.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Inside Compensation 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 CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Inside Compensation to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities
– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for Inside Compensation 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 Inside Compensation to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.
Buying journey improvements
– Inside Compensation can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? 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
– Inside Compensation can use the latest technology developments to improve its manufacturing and designing process in Leadership & Managing People 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.
Redefining models of collaboration and team work
– As explained in the weaknesses section, Inside Compensation is facing challenges because of the dominance of functional experts in the organization. CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? case study suggests that firm can utilize new technology to build more coordinated teams and streamline operations and communications using tools such as CAD, Zoom, etc.
Reconfiguring business model
– The expansion of digital payment system, the bringing down of international transactions costs using Bitcoin and other blockchain based currencies, etc can help Inside Compensation 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.
Loyalty marketing
– Inside Compensation 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.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Inside Compensation has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in the industry. This can help Inside Compensation to build a more holistic ecosystem as suggested in the CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? case study. Inside Compensation can build new products and services such as - data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, Inside Compensation 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, CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool?, 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 Inside Compensation 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.
Threats CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? are -
Easy access to finance
– Easy access to finance in Leadership & Managing People field will also reduce the barriers to entry in the industry, thus putting downward pressure on the prices because of increasing competition. Inside Compensation can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.
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. Inside Compensation needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Leadership & Managing People industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that Inside Compensation is facing in Leadership & Managing People sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
High dependence on third party suppliers
– Inside Compensation 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.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Inside Compensation 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 CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? .
Increasing wage structure of Inside Compensation
– 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 Inside Compensation.
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 Inside Compensation in the Leadership & Managing People sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Inside Compensation 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.
Consumer confidence and its impact on Inside Compensation 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.
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– Inside Compensation has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Leadership & Managing People industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Inside Compensation needs to keep up with the evolution of technology in the Leadership & Managing People 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.
Environmental challenges
– Inside Compensation 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. Inside Compensation can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry.
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. Inside Compensation 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.
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 Inside Compensation.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? 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 CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? 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 CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? 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 CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? 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 CEO Retirement Compensation: Is Inside Debt Excess Compensation or a Risk Management Tool? 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 Inside Compensation needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
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