Case Study Description of CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe
Examines an innovative, village-based management program in Zimbabwe. While the program has been quite successful, executive director Steven Kasere is concerned about the future. The program has become quite controversial in the environmental community, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) support may be in peril.
Swot Analysis of "CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe" written by Robert E. Kennedy, Karen Kaufman includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Zimbabwe Program facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Emerging markets, Sustainability and Global Business.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe casestudy better are - – talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, increasing household debt because of falling income levels, customer relationship management is fast transforming because of increasing concerns over data privacy, increasing government debt because of Covid-19 spendings, competitive advantages are harder to sustain because of technology dispersion, banking and financial system is disrupted by Bitcoin and other crypto currencies, there is increasing trade war between United States & China,
there is backlash against globalization, supply chains are disrupted by pandemic , etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Zimbabwe Program, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Zimbabwe Program 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 CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Zimbabwe Program
3. Assessing feasibility of the new initiative in Global Business field.
4. Making a Global Business topic specific business decision
5. Set goals for the organization
6. Organizational restructuring of Zimbabwe Program
Strengths CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Zimbabwe Program in CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe Harvard Business Review case study are -
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of Zimbabwe Program in the sector have low bargaining power. CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Zimbabwe Program to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Zimbabwe Program 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 CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe HBR case study have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Training and development
– Zimbabwe Program has one of the best training and development program in the industry. The effectiveness of the training programs can be measured in CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe 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.
High brand equity
– Zimbabwe Program has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Zimbabwe Program to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
High switching costs
– The high switching costs that Zimbabwe Program 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 Global Business segment
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Zimbabwe Program digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Zimbabwe Program 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.
Successful track record of launching new products
– Zimbabwe Program has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Zimbabwe Program 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.
Organizational Resilience of Zimbabwe Program
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing that Zimbabwe Program does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
Diverse revenue streams
– Zimbabwe Program is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe 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.
Innovation driven organization
– Zimbabwe Program is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe Harvard Business Review case study can use Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation strategies to further increase the scale of innovtions in the organization.
Learning organization
- Zimbabwe Program 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 Zimbabwe Program is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders in CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe Harvard Business Review case study emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the Zimbabwe Program 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.
Weaknesses CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe are -
Slow to strategic competitive environment developments
– As CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe HBR case study mentions - Zimbabwe Program 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.
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of Zimbabwe Program is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Global Business segment. Zimbabwe Program needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Zimbabwe Program to focus more on services rather than just following the product oriented approach.
Capital Spending Reduction
– Even during the low interest decade, Zimbabwe Program 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.
Low market penetration in new markets
– Outside its home market of Zimbabwe Program, firm in the HBR case study CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe needs to spend more promotional, marketing, and advertising efforts to penetrate international markets.
Need for greater diversity
– Zimbabwe Program 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 CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe 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 CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Zimbabwe Program is planning to shift buying processes online.
Workers concerns about automation
– As automation is fast increasing in the segment, Zimbabwe Program 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.
No frontier risks strategy
– After analyzing the HBR case study CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe, it seems that company is thinking about the frontier risks that can impact Global Business 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.
High cash cycle compare to competitors
Zimbabwe Program 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 CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe, it seems that the employees of Zimbabwe Program 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 Zimbabwe Program 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.
Opportunities CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe | 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 CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe are -
Redefining models of collaboration and team work
– As explained in the weaknesses section, Zimbabwe Program is facing challenges because of the dominance of functional experts in the organization. CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe 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.
Reforming the budgeting process
- By establishing new metrics that will be used to evaluate both existing and potential projects Zimbabwe Program can not only reduce the costs of the project but also help it in integrating the projects with other processes within the organization.
Lowering marketing communication costs
– 5G expansion will open new opportunities for Zimbabwe Program in the field of marketing communication. It will bring down the cost of doing business, provide technology platform to build new products in the Global Business segment, and it will provide faster access to the consumers.
Changes in consumer behavior post Covid-19
– Consumer behavior has changed in the Global Business industry because of Covid-19 restrictions. Some of this behavior will stay once things get back to normal. Zimbabwe Program 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. Zimbabwe Program 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.
Loyalty marketing
– Zimbabwe Program 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.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Zimbabwe Program 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.
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 Zimbabwe Program in the consumer business. Now Zimbabwe Program can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, Zimbabwe Program 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.
Developing new processes and practices
– Zimbabwe Program can develop new processes and procedures in Global Business 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.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Zimbabwe Program 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.
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help Zimbabwe Program to increase its market reach. Zimbabwe Program 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.
Manufacturing automation
– Zimbabwe Program can use the latest technology developments to improve its manufacturing and designing process in Global Business segment. It can use CAD and 3D printing to build a quick prototype and pilot testing products. It can leverage automation using machine learning and artificial intelligence to do faster production at lowers costs, and it can leverage the growth in satellite and tracking technologies to improve inventory management, transportation, and shipping.
Building a culture of innovation
– managers at Zimbabwe Program 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 Global Business segment.
Threats CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe are -
Learning curve for new practices
– As the technology based on artificial intelligence and machine learning platform is getting complex, as highlighted in case study CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Program may face longer learning curve for training and development of existing employees. This can open space for more nimble competitors in the field of Global Business .
Regulatory challenges
– Zimbabwe Program 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 Global Business industry regulations.
Easy access to finance
– Easy access to finance in Global Business field will also reduce the barriers to entry in the industry, thus putting downward pressure on the prices because of increasing competition. Zimbabwe Program can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– Zimbabwe Program has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Global Business industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Zimbabwe Program needs to keep up with the evolution of technology in the Global Business 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, Zimbabwe Program 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 CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe .
High dependence on third party suppliers
– Zimbabwe Program 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 Zimbabwe Program.
Trade war between China and United States
– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for Zimbabwe Program in the Global Business industry. The Global Business 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.
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 Zimbabwe Program business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
Consumer confidence and its impact on Zimbabwe Program 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.
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. Zimbabwe Program 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.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Zimbabwe Program 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.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Zimbabwe Program with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the sector.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe 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 CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe 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 CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe 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 CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe 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 CAMPFIRE Program: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe 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 Zimbabwe Program needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
