Swot Analysis of "Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models" written by Ray A. Goldberg, Kerry Herman, Laura Winig includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Alleviating Malnutrition facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Emerging markets, Social responsibility and Global Business.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models casestudy better are - – cloud computing is disrupting traditional business models, there is increasing trade war between United States & China, supply chains are disrupted by pandemic , increasing commodity prices, central banks are concerned over increasing inflation, there is backlash against globalization, customer relationship management is fast transforming because of increasing concerns over data privacy,
increasing transportation and logistics costs, geopolitical disruptions, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Alleviating Malnutrition, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Alleviating Malnutrition 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 Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Alleviating Malnutrition
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 Alleviating Malnutrition
Strengths Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Alleviating Malnutrition in Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models Harvard Business Review case study are -
Digital Transformation in Global Business segment
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Alleviating Malnutrition digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Alleviating Malnutrition 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
– Alleviating Malnutrition has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Alleviating Malnutrition to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Diverse revenue streams
– Alleviating Malnutrition is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models 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 Alleviating Malnutrition in the segment is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Successful track record of launching new products
– Alleviating Malnutrition has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– Alleviating Malnutrition 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 Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models - staying ahead in the industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
High switching costs
– The high switching costs that Alleviating Malnutrition 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 Alleviating Malnutrition in the sector have low bargaining power. Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Alleviating Malnutrition to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Analytics focus
– Alleviating Malnutrition 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 Ray A. Goldberg, Kerry Herman, Laura Winig 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.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
Organizational Resilience of Alleviating Malnutrition
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing that Alleviating Malnutrition does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
Innovation driven organization
– Alleviating Malnutrition is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models Harvard Business Review case study can use Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation strategies to further increase the scale of innovtions in the organization.
Weaknesses Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models are -
High cash cycle compare to competitors
Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
Slow to strategic competitive environment developments
– As Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models HBR case study mentions - Alleviating Malnutrition 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 bargaining power of channel partners
– Because of the regulatory requirements, Ray A. Goldberg, Kerry Herman, Laura Winig suggests that, Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of Alleviating Malnutrition is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Global Business segment. Alleviating Malnutrition needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Alleviating Malnutrition to focus more on services rather than just following the product oriented approach.
No frontier risks strategy
– After analyzing the HBR case study Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models, 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.
Interest costs
– Compare to the competition, Alleviating Malnutrition has borrowed money from the capital market at higher rates. It needs to restructure the interest payment and costs so that it can compete better and improve profitability.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative, highlighted in the case study Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models, in the dynamic environment Alleviating Malnutrition has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Alleviating Malnutrition has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
Slow decision making process
– As mentioned earlier in the report, Alleviating Malnutrition has a very deliberative decision making approach. This approach has resulted in prudent decisions, but it has also resulted in missing opportunities in the industry over the last five years. Alleviating Malnutrition even though has strong showing on digital transformation primary two stages, it has struggled to capitalize the power of digital transformation in marketing efforts and new venture efforts.
Need for greater diversity
– Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
Products dominated business model
– Even though Alleviating Malnutrition 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 - Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.
Lack of clear differentiation of Alleviating Malnutrition products
– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, Alleviating Malnutrition needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.
Opportunities Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models | 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 Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models are -
Redefining models of collaboration and team work
– As explained in the weaknesses section, Alleviating Malnutrition is facing challenges because of the dominance of functional experts in the organization. Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models 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.
Developing new processes and practices
– Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
Increase in government spending
– As the United States and other governments are increasing social spending and infrastructure spending to build economies post Covid-19, Alleviating Malnutrition can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that Alleviating Malnutrition 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, Alleviating Malnutrition 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, Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models, to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Alleviating Malnutrition 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 Alleviating Malnutrition to increase its market reach. Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
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. Alleviating Malnutrition can explore opportunities that can attract volunteers and are consistent with its mission and vision.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Alleviating Malnutrition has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in the industry. This can help Alleviating Malnutrition to build a more holistic ecosystem as suggested in the Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models case study. Alleviating Malnutrition can build new products and services such as - data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.
Buying journey improvements
– Alleviating Malnutrition can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models 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.
Loyalty marketing
– Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
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 Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
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. Alleviating Malnutrition 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. Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
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 Alleviating Malnutrition in the consumer business. Now Alleviating Malnutrition can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.
Threats Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models are -
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
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.
Trade war between China and United States
– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that Alleviating Malnutrition is facing in Global Business sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
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 Alleviating Malnutrition business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
Regulatory challenges
– Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
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.
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 Alleviating Malnutrition in the Global Business sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
Learning curve for new practices
– As the technology based on artificial intelligence and machine learning platform is getting complex, as highlighted in case study Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models, Alleviating Malnutrition 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 .
Consumer confidence and its impact on Alleviating Malnutrition 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.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Alleviating Malnutrition 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 Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models .
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. Alleviating Malnutrition needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Global Business industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Alleviating Malnutrition 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 Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models 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 Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models 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 Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models 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 Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models 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 Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models 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 Alleviating Malnutrition needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
