Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
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Case Study Description of Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner
The case narrates the internal processes of choosing and implementing a corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative. It illustrates the process of choosing a cause, selecting partners, creating a working plan, and finally getting the company's executive board's commitment.
Authors :: Ramina Samii, Rolando Tomasini, Luk Van Wassenhove
Swot Analysis of "Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner" written by Ramina Samii, Rolando Tomasini, Luk Van Wassenhove includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Choosing Wfp facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Joint ventures, Social responsibility and Leadership & Managing People.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner casestudy better are - – technology disruption, competitive advantages are harder to sustain because of technology dispersion, digital marketing is dominated by two big players Facebook and Google, central banks are concerned over increasing inflation, increasing transportation and logistics costs, supply chains are disrupted by pandemic , there is increasing trade war between United States & China,
talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, increasing commodity prices, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Choosing Wfp, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Choosing Wfp 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 Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Choosing Wfp
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 Choosing Wfp
Strengths Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Choosing Wfp in Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner Harvard Business Review case study are -
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of Choosing Wfp in the segment is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of Choosing Wfp in the sector have low bargaining power. Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Choosing Wfp to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Choosing Wfp 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 Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner HBR case study have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Strong track record of project management
– Choosing Wfp 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
– Choosing Wfp is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner Harvard Business Review case study can use Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation strategies to further increase the scale of innovtions in the organization.
Diverse revenue streams
– Choosing Wfp is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner 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.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– Choosing Wfp 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 Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner - staying ahead in the industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the Choosing Wfp 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.
Ability to recruit top talent
– Choosing Wfp is one of the leading recruiters in the industry. Managers in the Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner are in a position to attract the best talent available. The firm has a robust talent identification program that helps in identifying the brightest.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in Leadership & Managing People industry
– Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner firm has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled Choosing Wfp to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry. The sustainable margins have also helped Choosing Wfp to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
High switching costs
– The high switching costs that Choosing Wfp 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.
Ability to lead change in Leadership & Managing People field
– Choosing Wfp 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 Choosing Wfp in – penetrating new markets, reaching out to new customers, and providing different value propositions to different customers in the international markets.
Weaknesses Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner are -
Employees’ incomplete understanding of strategy
– From the instances in the HBR case study Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner, it seems that the employees of Choosing Wfp don’t have comprehensive understanding of the firm’s strategy. This is reflected in number of promotional campaigns over the last few years that had mixed messaging and competing priorities. Some of the strategic activities and services promoted in the promotional campaigns were not consistent with the organization’s strategy.
Slow to harness new channels of communication
– Even though competitors are using new communication channels such as Instagram, Tiktok, and Snap, Choosing Wfp is slow explore the new channels of communication. These new channels of communication mentioned in marketing section of case study Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner can help to provide better information regarding products and services. It can also build an online community to further reach out to potential customers.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee as mentioned in the HBR case study Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner, is just above the industry average. Choosing Wfp 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 dependence on star products
– The top 2 products and services of the firm as mentioned in the Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner 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 Choosing Wfp has relatively successful track record of launching new products.
Workers concerns about automation
– As automation is fast increasing in the segment, Choosing Wfp 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.
Low market penetration in new markets
– Outside its home market of Choosing Wfp, firm in the HBR case study Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner needs to spend more promotional, marketing, and advertising efforts to penetrate international markets.
Skills based hiring
– The stress on hiring functional specialists at Choosing Wfp 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.
Capital Spending Reduction
– Even during the low interest decade, Choosing Wfp 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.
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of Choosing Wfp is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Leadership & Managing People segment. Choosing Wfp needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Choosing Wfp to focus more on services rather than just following the product oriented approach.
Slow to strategic competitive environment developments
– As Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner HBR case study mentions - Choosing Wfp 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 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 Choosing Wfp supply chain. Even after few cautionary changes mentioned in the HBR case study - Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner, it is still heavily dependent upon the existing supply chain. The existing supply chain though brings in cost efficiencies but it has left Choosing Wfp vulnerable to further global disruptions in South East Asia.
Opportunities Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner | 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 Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner are -
Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities
– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for Choosing Wfp 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 Choosing Wfp to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Choosing Wfp 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.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Choosing Wfp 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.
Buying journey improvements
– Choosing Wfp can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner 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.
Manufacturing automation
– Choosing Wfp 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.
Increase in government spending
– As the United States and other governments are increasing social spending and infrastructure spending to build economies post Covid-19, Choosing Wfp can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that Choosing Wfp operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in Leadership & Managing People sector.
Developing new processes and practices
– Choosing Wfp 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.
Reforming the budgeting process
- By establishing new metrics that will be used to evaluate both existing and potential projects Choosing Wfp can not only reduce the costs of the project but also help it in integrating the projects with other processes within the organization.
Loyalty marketing
– Choosing Wfp 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.
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. Choosing Wfp 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. Choosing Wfp can further use this consumer data to build better customer loyalty, provide better products and service collection, and improve the value proposition in inflationary times.
Finding new ways to collaborate
– Covid-19 has not only transformed business models of companies in Leadership & Managing People industry, but it has also influenced the consumer preferences. Choosing Wfp can tie-up with other value chain partners to explore new opportunities regarding meeting customer demands and building a rewarding and engaging relationship.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Choosing Wfp 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 Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Choosing Wfp 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, Choosing Wfp 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, Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner, to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Threats Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner are -
High dependence on third party suppliers
– Choosing Wfp 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.
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. Choosing Wfp can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– Choosing Wfp has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Leadership & Managing People industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Choosing Wfp 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.
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 Choosing Wfp.
Environmental challenges
– Choosing Wfp 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. Choosing Wfp can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry.
Regulatory challenges
– Choosing Wfp 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 Leadership & Managing People industry regulations.
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 Choosing Wfp in the Leadership & Managing People 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 Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner, Choosing Wfp 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 .
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Choosing Wfp with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the sector.
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. Choosing Wfp 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.
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. Choosing Wfp needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Leadership & Managing People industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
Consumer confidence and its impact on Choosing Wfp 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.
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 Choosing Wfp business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner 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 Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner 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 Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner 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 Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner 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 Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Looking for a Partner 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 Choosing Wfp needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.