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Case Study Description of Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version
During the two years in which coach JA?rgen Klinsmann prepared the national soccer team for the World Cup, Germany experienced a soccer revolution. Klinsmann brought a team that had hit rock-bottom back to a world-class level. The soccer team's appearance on and off the field galvanized the Germans and contributed significantly to the World Cup's amazing success: all its games were sold out, the mood was euphoric in the stadiums, and new images of a friendly, open Germany circulated around the world.
Swot Analysis of "Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version" written by Ulf Schaefer, Christoph Burger includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Klinsmann Soccer facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Leadership and Leadership & Managing People.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version casestudy better are - – digital marketing is dominated by two big players Facebook and Google, increasing household debt because of falling income levels, customer relationship management is fast transforming because of increasing concerns over data privacy, banking and financial system is disrupted by Bitcoin and other crypto currencies, increasing energy prices, technology disruption, geopolitical disruptions,
supply chains are disrupted by pandemic , central banks are concerned over increasing inflation, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Klinsmann Soccer, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Klinsmann Soccer 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 Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Klinsmann Soccer
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 Klinsmann Soccer
Strengths Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Klinsmann Soccer in Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version Harvard Business Review case study are -
Digital Transformation in Leadership & Managing People segment
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Klinsmann Soccer digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Ability to lead change in Leadership & Managing People field
– Klinsmann Soccer 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 Klinsmann Soccer in – penetrating new markets, reaching out to new customers, and providing different value propositions to different customers in the international markets.
Diverse revenue streams
– Klinsmann Soccer is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version 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.
Successful track record of launching new products
– Klinsmann Soccer has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Klinsmann Soccer 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.
High brand equity
– Klinsmann Soccer has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Klinsmann Soccer to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Analytics focus
– Klinsmann Soccer 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 Ulf Schaefer, Christoph Burger 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.
Learning organization
- Klinsmann Soccer 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 Klinsmann Soccer is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders in Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version Harvard Business Review case study emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– Klinsmann Soccer 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 Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version - staying ahead in the industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
Strong track record of project management
– Klinsmann Soccer is known for sticking to its project targets. This enables the firm to manage – time, project costs, and have sustainable margins on the projects.
Innovation driven organization
– Klinsmann Soccer is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version Harvard Business Review case study can use Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation strategies to further increase the scale of innovtions in the organization.
Operational resilience
– The operational resilience strategy in the Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version 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.
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of Klinsmann Soccer in the sector have low bargaining power. Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Klinsmann Soccer to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Weaknesses Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version are -
Slow to strategic competitive environment developments
– As Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version HBR case study mentions - Klinsmann Soccer 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 cash cycle compare to competitors
Klinsmann Soccer 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.
No frontier risks strategy
– After analyzing the HBR case study Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version, 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.
Interest costs
– Compare to the competition, Klinsmann Soccer 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 Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version, in the dynamic environment Klinsmann Soccer has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Klinsmann Soccer has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
High dependence on star products
– The top 2 products and services of the firm as mentioned in the Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version 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 Klinsmann Soccer has relatively successful track record of launching new products.
Need for greater diversity
– Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Slow decision making process
– As mentioned earlier in the report, Klinsmann Soccer 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. Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Skills based hiring
– The stress on hiring functional specialists at Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Workers concerns about automation
– As automation is fast increasing in the segment, Klinsmann Soccer needs to come up with a strategy to reduce the workers concern regarding automation. Without a clear strategy, it could lead to disruption and uncertainty within the organization.
Products dominated business model
– Even though Klinsmann Soccer 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 - Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.
Opportunities Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version | 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 Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version are -
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Klinsmann Soccer 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 Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Klinsmann Soccer to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities
– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for Klinsmann Soccer to expand its talent hiring zone. According to McKinsey Global Institute, 20% of the high end workforce in fields such as finance, information technology, can continously work from remote local post Covid-19. This presents a really great opportunity for Klinsmann Soccer to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.
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. Klinsmann Soccer 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. Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Lowering marketing communication costs
– 5G expansion will open new opportunities for Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Redefining models of collaboration and team work
– As explained in the weaknesses section, Klinsmann Soccer is facing challenges because of the dominance of functional experts in the organization. Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version 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.
Manufacturing automation
– Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Klinsmann Soccer has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in the industry. This can help Klinsmann Soccer to build a more holistic ecosystem as suggested in the Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version case study. Klinsmann Soccer 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, Klinsmann Soccer 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, Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version, 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
– Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Developing new processes and practices
– Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Threats Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version 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 Klinsmann Soccer in the Leadership & Managing People sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
Increasing wage structure of Klinsmann Soccer
– 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 Klinsmann Soccer.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Klinsmann Soccer 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 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. Klinsmann Soccer needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Leadership & Managing People industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– Klinsmann Soccer has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Leadership & Managing People industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Klinsmann Soccer 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.
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 Klinsmann Soccer business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
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 Klinsmann Soccer.
Trade war between China and United States
– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Klinsmann Soccer 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 Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version .
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. Klinsmann Soccer 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.
Environmental challenges
– Klinsmann Soccer 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. Klinsmann Soccer can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that Klinsmann Soccer is facing in Leadership & Managing People sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version 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 Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version 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 Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version 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 Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version 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 Taking charge: JA?rgen Klinsmann and the German national soccer team, Spanish Version 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 Klinsmann Soccer needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
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