Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
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Case Study Description of Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration
This is a Darden case study.This mini-case demonstrates bid rigging and how it can be recognized. It accompanies the technical note - A Note on Understanding, Detecting and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations.
Swot Analysis of "Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration" written by John F. Terzaken III, Thomas Cross includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Detecting Criminal facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Business law, Government and Leadership & Managing People.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration casestudy better are - – increasing government debt because of Covid-19 spendings, increasing transportation and logistics costs, increasing energy prices, competitive advantages are harder to sustain because of technology dispersion, increasing commodity prices, there is backlash against globalization, wage bills are increasing,
banking and financial system is disrupted by Bitcoin and other crypto currencies, talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Detecting Criminal, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Detecting Criminal 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 Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Detecting Criminal
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 Detecting Criminal
Strengths Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Detecting Criminal in Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration Harvard Business Review case study are -
Ability to recruit top talent
– Detecting Criminal is one of the leading recruiters in the industry. Managers in the Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration are in a position to attract the best talent available. The firm has a robust talent identification program that helps in identifying the brightest.
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of Detecting Criminal in the sector have low bargaining power. Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Detecting Criminal to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in Leadership & Managing People industry
– Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration firm has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled Detecting Criminal to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry. The sustainable margins have also helped Detecting Criminal to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
Analytics focus
– Detecting Criminal 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 John F. Terzaken III, Thomas Cross 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.
High brand equity
– Detecting Criminal has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Detecting Criminal to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Innovation driven organization
– Detecting Criminal is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration Harvard Business Review case study can use Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation strategies to further increase the scale of innovtions in the organization.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of Detecting Criminal in the segment is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Ability to lead change in Leadership & Managing People field
– Detecting Criminal 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 Detecting Criminal in – penetrating new markets, reaching out to new customers, and providing different value propositions to different customers in the international markets.
Digital Transformation in Leadership & Managing People segment
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Detecting Criminal digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Detecting Criminal 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.
Training and development
– Detecting Criminal has one of the best training and development program in the industry. The effectiveness of the training programs can be measured in Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration 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.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Detecting Criminal 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 Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration HBR case study have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– Detecting Criminal 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 Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration - staying ahead in the industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
Weaknesses Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration are -
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 Detecting Criminal supply chain. Even after few cautionary changes mentioned in the HBR case study - Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration, it is still heavily dependent upon the existing supply chain. The existing supply chain though brings in cost efficiencies but it has left Detecting Criminal vulnerable to further global disruptions in South East Asia.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative, highlighted in the case study Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration, in the dynamic environment Detecting Criminal has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Detecting Criminal has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee as mentioned in the HBR case study Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration, is just above the industry average. Detecting Criminal needs to redesign the compensation structure and incentives to increase the revenue per employees. Some of the steps that it can take are – hiring more specialists on project basis, etc.
High bargaining power of channel partners
– Because of the regulatory requirements, John F. Terzaken III, Thomas Cross suggests that, Detecting Criminal 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.
Products dominated business model
– Even though Detecting Criminal 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 - Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.
Slow decision making process
– As mentioned earlier in the report, Detecting Criminal 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. Detecting Criminal 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.
High cash cycle compare to competitors
Detecting Criminal 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.
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of Detecting Criminal is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Leadership & Managing People segment. Detecting Criminal needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Detecting Criminal to focus more on services rather than just following the product oriented approach.
No frontier risks strategy
– After analyzing the HBR case study Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration, 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.
Aligning sales with marketing
– It come across in the case study Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration 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 Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Detecting Criminal is planning to shift buying processes online.
Need for greater diversity
– Detecting Criminal 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.
Opportunities Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration | 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 Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration are -
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 Detecting Criminal in the consumer business. Now Detecting Criminal can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.
Buying journey improvements
– Detecting Criminal can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration suggest that firm can provide automated chats to help consumers solve their own problems, provide online suggestions to get maximum out of the products and services, and help consumers to build a community where they can interact with each other to develop new features and uses.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Detecting Criminal 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 Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Detecting Criminal to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
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. Detecting Criminal can explore opportunities that can attract volunteers and are consistent with its mission and vision.
Lowering marketing communication costs
– 5G expansion will open new opportunities for Detecting Criminal in the field of marketing communication. It will bring down the cost of doing business, provide technology platform to build new products in the Leadership & Managing People segment, and it will provide faster access to the consumers.
Manufacturing automation
– Detecting Criminal 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.
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 Detecting Criminal 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.
Developing new processes and practices
– Detecting Criminal 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.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Detecting Criminal has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in the industry. This can help Detecting Criminal to build a more holistic ecosystem as suggested in the Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration case study. Detecting Criminal 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, Detecting Criminal 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, Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration, to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help Detecting Criminal to increase its market reach. Detecting Criminal 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.
Redefining models of collaboration and team work
– As explained in the weaknesses section, Detecting Criminal is facing challenges because of the dominance of functional experts in the organization. Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration 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.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Detecting Criminal 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 Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration are -
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 Detecting Criminal in the Leadership & Managing People sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that Detecting Criminal is facing in Leadership & Managing People sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
Increasing wage structure of Detecting Criminal
– 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 Detecting Criminal.
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. Detecting Criminal needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Leadership & Managing People industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
Learning curve for new practices
– As the technology based on artificial intelligence and machine learning platform is getting complex, as highlighted in case study Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration, Detecting Criminal may face longer learning curve for training and development of existing employees. This can open space for more nimble competitors in the field of Leadership & Managing People .
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Detecting Criminal 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 Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration .
High dependence on third party suppliers
– Detecting Criminal 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
– Detecting Criminal has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Leadership & Managing People industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Detecting Criminal 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.
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 Detecting Criminal in the Leadership & Managing People industry. The Leadership & Managing People 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.
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 Detecting Criminal.
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 Detecting Criminal business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
Consumer confidence and its impact on Detecting Criminal 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.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration 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 Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration 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 Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration 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 Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration 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 Understanding, Detecting, and Reporting Criminal Antitrust Violations: Case Demonstration 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 Detecting Criminal needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
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