The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
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Case Study Description of The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership
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Swot Analysis of "The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership" written by James G. Clawson includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Moral Instrument facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, and Leadership & Managing People.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership casestudy better are - – central banks are concerned over increasing inflation, banking and financial system is disrupted by Bitcoin and other crypto currencies, cloud computing is disrupting traditional business models, increasing commodity prices, increasing transportation and logistics costs, geopolitical disruptions, there is increasing trade war between United States & China,
there is backlash against globalization, digital marketing is dominated by two big players Facebook and Google, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Moral Instrument, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Moral Instrument 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 The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Moral Instrument
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 Moral Instrument
Strengths The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Moral Instrument in The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership Harvard Business Review case study are -
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the Moral Instrument 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.
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of Moral Instrument in the sector have low bargaining power. The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Moral Instrument to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Innovation driven organization
– Moral Instrument is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership Harvard Business Review case study can use Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation strategies to further increase the scale of innovtions in the organization.
Digital Transformation in Leadership & Managing People segment
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Moral Instrument digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Moral Instrument 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.
Organizational Resilience of Moral Instrument
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing that Moral Instrument does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
Diverse revenue streams
– Moral Instrument is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership 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.
Ability to lead change in Leadership & Managing People field
– Moral Instrument 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 Moral Instrument in – penetrating new markets, reaching out to new customers, and providing different value propositions to different customers in the international markets.
Ability to recruit top talent
– Moral Instrument is one of the leading recruiters in the industry. Managers in the The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership 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
– The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership firm has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled Moral Instrument to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry. The sustainable margins have also helped Moral Instrument to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Moral Instrument 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 The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership HBR case study have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Operational resilience
– The operational resilience strategy in the The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership 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.
Training and development
– Moral Instrument has one of the best training and development program in the industry. The effectiveness of the training programs can be measured in The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership 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.
Weaknesses The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership are -
Interest costs
– Compare to the competition, Moral Instrument 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.
High bargaining power of channel partners
– Because of the regulatory requirements, James G. Clawson suggests that, Moral Instrument 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.
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of Moral Instrument is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Leadership & Managing People segment. Moral Instrument needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Moral Instrument to focus more on services rather than just following the product oriented approach.
Aligning sales with marketing
– It come across in the case study The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership 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 The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Moral Instrument is planning to shift buying processes online.
Slow decision making process
– As mentioned earlier in the report, Moral Instrument 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. Moral Instrument 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.
Products dominated business model
– Even though Moral Instrument 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 - The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.
High dependence on star products
– The top 2 products and services of the firm as mentioned in the The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership 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 Moral Instrument has relatively successful track record of launching new products.
High cash cycle compare to competitors
Moral Instrument 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.
Slow to harness new channels of communication
– Even though competitors are using new communication channels such as Instagram, Tiktok, and Snap, Moral Instrument is slow explore the new channels of communication. These new channels of communication mentioned in marketing section of case study The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership can help to provide better information regarding products and services. It can also build an online community to further reach out to potential customers.
Need for greater diversity
– Moral Instrument 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.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative, highlighted in the case study The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership, in the dynamic environment Moral Instrument has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Moral Instrument has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
Opportunities The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership | 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 The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership are -
Manufacturing automation
– Moral Instrument 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.
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. Moral Instrument 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. Moral Instrument 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.
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 Moral Instrument in the consumer business. Now Moral Instrument can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Moral Instrument has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in the industry. This can help Moral Instrument to build a more holistic ecosystem as suggested in the The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership case study. Moral Instrument can build new products and services such as - data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help Moral Instrument to increase its market reach. Moral Instrument 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.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Moral Instrument 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.
Increase in government spending
– As the United States and other governments are increasing social spending and infrastructure spending to build economies post Covid-19, Moral Instrument can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that Moral Instrument operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in Leadership & Managing People sector.
Loyalty marketing
– Moral Instrument 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.
Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities
– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for Moral Instrument 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 Moral Instrument to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Moral Instrument 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, Moral Instrument 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.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, Moral Instrument 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, The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership, to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Reforming the budgeting process
- By establishing new metrics that will be used to evaluate both existing and potential projects Moral Instrument can not only reduce the costs of the project but also help it in integrating the projects with other processes within the organization.
Threats The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership are -
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. Moral Instrument 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.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Moral Instrument 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 Moral Instrument.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Moral Instrument 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 The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership .
Regulatory challenges
– Moral Instrument 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.
Trade war between China and United States
– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for Moral Instrument 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 Moral Instrument 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. Moral Instrument can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.
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.
High dependence on third party suppliers
– Moral Instrument 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.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Moral Instrument 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.
Learning curve for new practices
– As the technology based on artificial intelligence and machine learning platform is getting complex, as highlighted in case study The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership, Moral Instrument 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 .
Environmental challenges
– Moral Instrument 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. Moral Instrument can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership 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 The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership 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 The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership 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 The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership 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 The Moral Foundation of Extra-Ordinary Leadership 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 Moral Instrument needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.