Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
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Case Study Description of Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance
The case narrates the first year of the Moving the World Program, a public-private CSR-driven partnership between TPG and the UN World Food Program. It describes the five joint initiatives, where the organizations would merger their experience and capabilities in the pursuit of enhanced performance in humanitarian operations worldwide.
Swot Analysis of "Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance" written by Ramina Samii, Luk Van Wassenhove includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Tpg Wfp facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance 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 - Learning How to Dance casestudy better are - – geopolitical disruptions, technology disruption, increasing commodity prices, challanges to central banks by blockchain based private currencies, increasing energy prices, talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, competitive advantages are harder to sustain because of technology dispersion,
increasing government debt because of Covid-19 spendings, supply chains are disrupted by pandemic , etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance
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 - Learning How to Dance case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Tpg Wfp, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Tpg 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 - Learning How to Dance can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Tpg 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 Tpg Wfp
Strengths Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Tpg Wfp in Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance Harvard Business Review case study are -
Diverse revenue streams
– Tpg Wfp is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance 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.
Operational resilience
– The operational resilience strategy in the Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance 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.
Ability to lead change in Leadership & Managing People field
– Tpg 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 Tpg Wfp in – penetrating new markets, reaching out to new customers, and providing different value propositions to different customers in the international markets.
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of Tpg Wfp in the sector have low bargaining power. Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Tpg Wfp to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Innovation driven organization
– Tpg Wfp is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance Harvard Business Review case study can use Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation strategies to further increase the scale of innovtions in the organization.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– Tpg 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 - Learning How to Dance - staying ahead in the industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
Learning organization
- Tpg Wfp 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 Tpg Wfp is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders in Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance Harvard Business Review case study emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
Successful track record of launching new products
– Tpg Wfp has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Tpg Wfp 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.
Organizational Resilience of Tpg Wfp
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing that Tpg Wfp does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
Digital Transformation in Leadership & Managing People segment
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Tpg Wfp digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Tpg Wfp has successfully integrated the four key components of digital transformation – digital integration in processes, digital integration in marketing and customer relationship management, digital integration into the value chain, and using technology to explore new products and market opportunities.
High switching costs
– The high switching costs that Tpg 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.
High brand equity
– Tpg Wfp has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Tpg Wfp to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Weaknesses Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance are -
Slow decision making process
– As mentioned earlier in the report, Tpg Wfp 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. Tpg Wfp 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.
Interest costs
– Compare to the competition, Tpg Wfp 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.
Slow to harness new channels of communication
– Even though competitors are using new communication channels such as Instagram, Tiktok, and Snap, Tpg 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 - Learning How to Dance can help to provide better information regarding products and services. It can also build an online community to further reach out to potential customers.
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 - Learning How to Dance 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 Tpg Wfp has relatively successful track record of launching new products.
Capital Spending Reduction
– Even during the low interest decade, Tpg 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.
Employees’ incomplete understanding of strategy
– From the instances in the HBR case study Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance, it seems that the employees of Tpg 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.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee as mentioned in the HBR case study Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance, is just above the industry average. Tpg 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.
Workers concerns about automation
– As automation is fast increasing in the segment, Tpg 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.
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 Tpg Wfp supply chain. Even after few cautionary changes mentioned in the HBR case study - Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance, it is still heavily dependent upon the existing supply chain. The existing supply chain though brings in cost efficiencies but it has left Tpg Wfp vulnerable to further global disruptions in South East Asia.
Skills based hiring
– The stress on hiring functional specialists at Tpg 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.
Products dominated business model
– Even though Tpg Wfp 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 - Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.
Opportunities Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance | 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 - Learning How to Dance are -
Lowering marketing communication costs
– 5G expansion will open new opportunities for Tpg Wfp 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
– Tpg 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.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, Tpg Wfp 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.
Loyalty marketing
– Tpg 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. Tpg 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. Tpg 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.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Tpg 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 - Learning How to Dance - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Tpg Wfp 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. Tpg Wfp can explore opportunities that can attract volunteers and are consistent with its mission and vision.
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help Tpg Wfp to increase its market reach. Tpg Wfp 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.
Buying journey improvements
– Tpg Wfp can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance 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
– Tpg 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.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, Tpg 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 - Learning How to Dance, to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
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 Tpg Wfp in the consumer business. Now Tpg Wfp can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.
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. Tpg Wfp can tie-up with other value chain partners to explore new opportunities regarding meeting customer demands and building a rewarding and engaging relationship.
Threats Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance 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 - Learning How to Dance are -
Environmental challenges
– Tpg 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. Tpg Wfp can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry.
Increasing wage structure of Tpg Wfp
– 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 Tpg Wfp.
Trade war between China and United States
– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for Tpg Wfp 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.
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 Tpg Wfp in the Leadership & Managing People sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
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. Tpg Wfp can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.
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 Tpg Wfp business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Tpg Wfp with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the sector.
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– Tpg 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, Tpg 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.
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 - Learning How to Dance, Tpg 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 .
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 Tpg Wfp.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Tpg Wfp 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 Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance .
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. Tpg 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.
Aging population
– As the populations of most advanced economies are aging, it will lead to high social security costs, higher savings among population, and lower demand for goods and services in the economy. The household savings in US, France, UK, Germany, and Japan are growing faster than predicted because of uncertainty caused by pandemic.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Moving the World: The TPG-WFP Partnership - Learning How to Dance 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 - Learning How to Dance 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 - Learning How to Dance 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 - Learning How to Dance 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 - Learning How to Dance 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 Tpg Wfp needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.