Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
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Case Study Description of Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam?
In 2012, a real estate entrepreneur and his long-time friend and former neighbour, a police director, had enjoyed the profits of "guanxi"-a bilateral flow of personal favours-for many years. The use of guanxi in China had long been a core component of successful and sometimes illegal business. However, China's new president had recently created a tough anti-corruption Disciplinary Committee. As a result, many respected citizens who had previously profited from corrupt practices were being exposed, prosecuted, and imprisoned. News was leaked about the city's entire police force having enjoyed a six-day vacation in Bali at the expense of the police budget. The real estate entrepreneur and the police director were going to be questioned about their role in arranging this vacation. What should they do? Could they escape the consequences of their questionable business practices, or were they headed for a future in prison? Stephen Grainger is affiliated with Edith Cowan University.
Swot Analysis of "Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam?" written by Stephen Grainger includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Police Bali facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, and Global Business.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? casestudy better are - – increasing government debt because of Covid-19 spendings, geopolitical disruptions, talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, increasing energy prices, central banks are concerned over increasing inflation, banking and financial system is disrupted by Bitcoin and other crypto currencies, increasing transportation and logistics costs,
increasing household debt because of falling income levels, increasing inequality as vast percentage of new income is going to the top 1%, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam?
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Police Bali, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Police Bali 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 Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Police Bali
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 Police Bali
Strengths Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Police Bali in Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? Harvard Business Review case study are -
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– Police Bali 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 Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? - staying ahead in the industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
Digital Transformation in Global Business segment
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Police Bali digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Police Bali 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.
Analytics focus
– Police Bali 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 Stephen Grainger 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.
Operational resilience
– The operational resilience strategy in the Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? 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.
High brand equity
– Police Bali has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Police Bali to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Innovation driven organization
– Police Bali is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? Harvard Business Review case study can use Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation strategies to further increase the scale of innovtions in the organization.
Training and development
– Police Bali has one of the best training and development program in the industry. The effectiveness of the training programs can be measured in Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? 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.
Ability to lead change in Global Business field
– Police Bali is one of the leading players in its industry. Over the years it has not only transformed the business landscape in its segment but also across the whole industry. The ability to lead change has enabled Police Bali in – penetrating new markets, reaching out to new customers, and providing different value propositions to different customers in the international markets.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the Police Bali 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
– Police Bali has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Police Bali 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.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in Global Business industry
– Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? firm has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled Police Bali to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the Global Business industry. The sustainable margins have also helped Police Bali to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
Learning organization
- Police Bali 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 Police Bali is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders in Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? Harvard Business Review case study emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
Weaknesses Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? are -
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of Police Bali is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Global Business segment. Police Bali needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Police Bali to focus more on services rather than just following the product oriented approach.
No frontier risks strategy
– After analyzing the HBR case study Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam?, 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.
Need for greater diversity
– Police Bali 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.
Lack of clear differentiation of Police Bali products
– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, Police Bali needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.
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 Police Bali supply chain. Even after few cautionary changes mentioned in the HBR case study - Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam?, it is still heavily dependent upon the existing supply chain. The existing supply chain though brings in cost efficiencies but it has left Police Bali vulnerable to further global disruptions in South East Asia.
High dependence on star products
– The top 2 products and services of the firm as mentioned in the Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? 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 Police Bali has relatively successful track record of launching new products.
Slow to strategic competitive environment developments
– As Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? HBR case study mentions - Police Bali 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.
Low market penetration in new markets
– Outside its home market of Police Bali, firm in the HBR case study Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? needs to spend more promotional, marketing, and advertising efforts to penetrate international markets.
High bargaining power of channel partners
– Because of the regulatory requirements, Stephen Grainger suggests that, Police Bali 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 operating costs
– Compare to the competitors, firm in the HBR case study Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? 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 Police Bali 's lucrative customers.
Employees’ incomplete understanding of strategy
– From the instances in the HBR case study Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam?, it seems that the employees of Police Bali 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.
Opportunities Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? | 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 Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? are -
Lowering marketing communication costs
– 5G expansion will open new opportunities for Police Bali 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.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Police Bali 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.
Increase in government spending
– As the United States and other governments are increasing social spending and infrastructure spending to build economies post Covid-19, Police Bali can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that Police Bali operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in Global Business sector.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, Police Bali 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, Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam?, to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Reforming the budgeting process
- By establishing new metrics that will be used to evaluate both existing and potential projects Police Bali can not only reduce the costs of the project but also help it in integrating the projects with other processes within the organization.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, Police Bali 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.
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. Police Bali 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. Police Bali 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.
Finding new ways to collaborate
– Covid-19 has not only transformed business models of companies in Global Business industry, but it has also influenced the consumer preferences. Police Bali can tie-up with other value chain partners to explore new opportunities regarding meeting customer demands and building a rewarding and engaging relationship.
Identify volunteer opportunities
– Covid-19 has impacted working population in two ways – it has led to people soul searching about their professional choices, resulting in mass resignation. Secondly it has encouraged people to do things that they are passionate about. This has opened opportunities for businesses to build volunteer oriented socially driven projects. Police Bali can explore opportunities that can attract volunteers and are consistent with its mission and vision.
Redefining models of collaboration and team work
– As explained in the weaknesses section, Police Bali is facing challenges because of the dominance of functional experts in the organization. Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? 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.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Police Bali has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in the industry. This can help Police Bali to build a more holistic ecosystem as suggested in the Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? case study. Police Bali can build new products and services such as - data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.
Buying journey improvements
– Police Bali can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? 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.
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help Police Bali to increase its market reach. Police Bali 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.
Threats Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? are -
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Police Bali 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 Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? .
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 Police Bali.
High dependence on third party suppliers
– Police Bali high dependence on third party suppliers can disrupt its processes and delivery mechanism. For example -the current troubles of car makers because of chip shortage is because the chip companies started producing chips for electronic companies rather than car manufacturers.
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– Police Bali has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Global Business industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Police Bali 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.
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 Police Bali business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that Police Bali is facing in Global Business sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
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. Police Bali 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.
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.
Regulatory challenges
– Police Bali 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.
Increasing wage structure of Police Bali
– 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 Police Bali.
Consumer confidence and its impact on Police Bali 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.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Police Bali 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 Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? 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 Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? 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 Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? 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 Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? 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 Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam? 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 Police Bali needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.