Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
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Case Study Description of Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations
Describes the federal guidelines used by judges for sentencing organizations convicted of criminal wrong-doing under U.S. law as of November 1, 1991. Describes the guidelines' approach to calculating criminal fines for organizations, determining an organization's culpability, and assessing the organization's legal compliance program. Outlines some of the common criticisms of the guidelines. Intended to permit discussion of the concept of "organizational culpability" and to inform students about the bases for assigning criminal punishment to corporations under current law.
Authors :: Lynn Sharp Paine, Michael A. Santoro
Topics :: Leadership & Managing People
Tags :: Business law, Managing organizations, Regulation, Social responsibility, SWOT Analysis, SWOT Matrix, TOWS, Weighted SWOT Analysis
Swot Analysis of "Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations" written by Lynn Sharp Paine, Michael A. Santoro includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Guidelines Culpability facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Business law, Managing organizations, Regulation, Social responsibility and Leadership & Managing People.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations casestudy better are - – increasing household debt because of falling income levels, digital marketing is dominated by two big players Facebook and Google, supply chains are disrupted by pandemic , increasing commodity prices, wage bills are increasing, there is increasing trade war between United States & China, geopolitical disruptions,
challanges to central banks by blockchain based private currencies, central banks are concerned over increasing inflation, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Guidelines Culpability, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Guidelines Culpability 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 Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Guidelines Culpability
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 Guidelines Culpability
Strengths Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Guidelines Culpability in Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations Harvard Business Review case study are -
Ability to recruit top talent
– Guidelines Culpability is one of the leading recruiters in the industry. Managers in the Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations are in a position to attract the best talent available. The firm has a robust talent identification program that helps in identifying the brightest.
Diverse revenue streams
– Guidelines Culpability is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations 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.
Analytics focus
– Guidelines Culpability 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 Lynn Sharp Paine, Michael A. Santoro 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.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– Guidelines Culpability 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 Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations - staying ahead in the industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
Successful track record of launching new products
– Guidelines Culpability has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Guidelines Culpability 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.
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of Guidelines Culpability in the sector have low bargaining power. Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Guidelines Culpability to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Guidelines Culpability 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 Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations HBR case study have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Strong track record of project management
– Guidelines Culpability is known for sticking to its project targets. This enables the firm to manage – time, project costs, and have sustainable margins on the projects.
High switching costs
– The high switching costs that Guidelines Culpability 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.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in Leadership & Managing People industry
– Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations firm has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled Guidelines Culpability to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry. The sustainable margins have also helped Guidelines Culpability to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
Training and development
– Guidelines Culpability has one of the best training and development program in the industry. The effectiveness of the training programs can be measured in Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations 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.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the Guidelines Culpability 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 Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations are -
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of Guidelines Culpability is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Leadership & Managing People segment. Guidelines Culpability needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Guidelines Culpability to focus more on services rather than just following the product oriented approach.
Capital Spending Reduction
– Even during the low interest decade, Guidelines Culpability 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.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative, highlighted in the case study Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations, in the dynamic environment Guidelines Culpability has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Guidelines Culpability has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
High operating costs
– Compare to the competitors, firm in the HBR case study Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations 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 Guidelines Culpability 's lucrative customers.
Aligning sales with marketing
– It come across in the case study Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations 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 Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Guidelines Culpability is planning to shift buying processes online.
Skills based hiring
– The stress on hiring functional specialists at Guidelines Culpability has created an environment where the organization is dominated by functional specialists rather than management generalist. This has resulted into product oriented approach rather than marketing oriented approach or consumers oriented approach.
High 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 Guidelines Culpability supply chain. Even after few cautionary changes mentioned in the HBR case study - Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations, it is still heavily dependent upon the existing supply chain. The existing supply chain though brings in cost efficiencies but it has left Guidelines Culpability vulnerable to further global disruptions in South East Asia.
Slow to strategic competitive environment developments
– As Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations HBR case study mentions - Guidelines Culpability 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, Lynn Sharp Paine, Michael A. Santoro suggests that, Guidelines Culpability 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.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee as mentioned in the HBR case study Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations, is just above the industry average. Guidelines Culpability 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.
Interest costs
– Compare to the competition, Guidelines Culpability 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.
Opportunities Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations | 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 Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations are -
Manufacturing automation
– Guidelines Culpability can use the latest technology developments to improve its manufacturing and designing process in Leadership & Managing People segment. It can use CAD and 3D printing to build a quick prototype and pilot testing products. It can leverage automation using machine learning and artificial intelligence to do faster production at lowers costs, and it can leverage the growth in satellite and tracking technologies to improve inventory management, transportation, and shipping.
Redefining models of collaboration and team work
– As explained in the weaknesses section, Guidelines Culpability is facing challenges because of the dominance of functional experts in the organization. Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations 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.
Buying journey improvements
– Guidelines Culpability can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations 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.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Guidelines Culpability 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.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, Guidelines Culpability 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.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Guidelines Culpability 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 Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Guidelines Culpability to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, Guidelines Culpability 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, Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations, to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Loyalty marketing
– Guidelines Culpability 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.
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help Guidelines Culpability to increase its market reach. Guidelines Culpability 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.
Increase in government spending
– As the United States and other governments are increasing social spending and infrastructure spending to build economies post Covid-19, Guidelines Culpability can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that Guidelines Culpability operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in Leadership & Managing People sector.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Guidelines Culpability 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.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Guidelines Culpability has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in the industry. This can help Guidelines Culpability to build a more holistic ecosystem as suggested in the Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations case study. Guidelines Culpability can build new products and services such as - data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.
Changes in consumer behavior post Covid-19
– Consumer behavior has changed in the Leadership & Managing People industry because of Covid-19 restrictions. Some of this behavior will stay once things get back to normal. Guidelines Culpability 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. Guidelines Culpability 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.
Threats Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations are -
Environmental challenges
– Guidelines Culpability needs to have a robust strategy against the disruptions arising from climate change and energy requirements. EU has identified it as key priority area and spending 30% of its 880 billion Euros European post Covid-19 recovery funds on green technology. Guidelines Culpability can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry.
Increasing wage structure of Guidelines Culpability
– 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 Guidelines Culpability.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Guidelines Culpability with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the sector.
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 Guidelines Culpability.
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.
Consumer confidence and its impact on Guidelines Culpability 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.
Easy access to finance
– Easy access to finance in Leadership & Managing People field will also reduce the barriers to entry in the industry, thus putting downward pressure on the prices because of increasing competition. Guidelines Culpability can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Guidelines Culpability 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.
High dependence on third party suppliers
– Guidelines Culpability 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.
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 Guidelines Culpability 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 Guidelines Culpability is facing in Leadership & Managing People sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
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. Guidelines Culpability needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Leadership & Managing People industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Guidelines Culpability 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 Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations .
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations 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 Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations 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 Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations 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 Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations 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 Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations 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 Guidelines Culpability needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.