What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
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Case Study Description of What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform
Fundescola is an educational reform introduced in Brazil in the first decade of the 21st century. It was introduced after Brazil's successful educational access reforms in the 1990s led to skyrocketing enrollment rates, leaving schools unprepared and under-resourced. This led to problems with education quality, especially in poorer communities and poorer states in the North-East. Fundescola was developed by the Federal Government and the World Bank in response. It blended decentralization of funds to schools with the adoption of various new management practices-like strategic planning-to make the schools more effective in providing education. The intervention was subjected to various World Bank evaluations and generally presented as a success. HKS Case Number 1928.0
Swot Analysis of "What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform" written by Matthew Andrews includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Fundescola Poorer facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Leadership, Policy, Product development, Public relations, Strategic planning and Leadership & Managing People.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform casestudy better are - – banking and financial system is disrupted by Bitcoin and other crypto currencies, increasing energy prices, digital marketing is dominated by two big players Facebook and Google, increasing transportation and logistics costs, there is increasing trade war between United States & China, increasing household debt because of falling income levels, central banks are concerned over increasing inflation,
increasing inequality as vast percentage of new income is going to the top 1%, talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Fundescola Poorer, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Fundescola Poorer 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 What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Fundescola Poorer
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 Fundescola Poorer
Strengths What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Fundescola Poorer in What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform Harvard Business Review case study are -
Analytics focus
– Fundescola Poorer 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 Matthew Andrews 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.
Organizational Resilience of Fundescola Poorer
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing that Fundescola Poorer does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the Fundescola Poorer 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.
Successful track record of launching new products
– Fundescola Poorer has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Fundescola Poorer 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
– Fundescola Poorer has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Fundescola Poorer to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Fundescola Poorer 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 What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform HBR case study have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Training and development
– Fundescola Poorer has one of the best training and development program in the industry. The effectiveness of the training programs can be measured in What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform 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.
Learning organization
- Fundescola Poorer 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 Fundescola Poorer is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders in What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform Harvard Business Review case study emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of Fundescola Poorer in the segment is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Ability to recruit top talent
– Fundescola Poorer is one of the leading recruiters in the industry. Managers in the What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform are in a position to attract the best talent available. The firm has a robust talent identification program that helps in identifying the brightest.
Innovation driven organization
– Fundescola Poorer is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform 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
– Fundescola Poorer is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided firm in What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform 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.
Weaknesses What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform are -
Capital Spending Reduction
– Even during the low interest decade, Fundescola Poorer 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.
High bargaining power of channel partners
– Because of the regulatory requirements, Matthew Andrews suggests that, Fundescola Poorer 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.
No frontier risks strategy
– After analyzing the HBR case study What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform, 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.
Need for greater diversity
– Fundescola Poorer 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.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee as mentioned in the HBR case study What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform, is just above the industry average. Fundescola Poorer 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.
Slow to strategic competitive environment developments
– As What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform HBR case study mentions - Fundescola Poorer 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.
Low market penetration in new markets
– Outside its home market of Fundescola Poorer, firm in the HBR case study What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform needs to spend more promotional, marketing, and advertising efforts to penetrate international markets.
High dependence on star products
– The top 2 products and services of the firm as mentioned in the What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform 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 Fundescola Poorer has relatively successful track record of launching new products.
Aligning sales with marketing
– It come across in the case study What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform 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 What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Fundescola Poorer is planning to shift buying processes online.
Lack of clear differentiation of Fundescola Poorer products
– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, Fundescola Poorer needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.
Skills based hiring
– The stress on hiring functional specialists at Fundescola Poorer 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.
Opportunities What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform | 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 What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform are -
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help Fundescola Poorer to increase its market reach. Fundescola Poorer 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.
Reforming the budgeting process
- By establishing new metrics that will be used to evaluate both existing and potential projects Fundescola Poorer can not only reduce the costs of the project but also help it in integrating the projects with other processes within the organization.
Redefining models of collaboration and team work
– As explained in the weaknesses section, Fundescola Poorer is facing challenges because of the dominance of functional experts in the organization. What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform 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.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, Fundescola Poorer 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, What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform, to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Fundescola Poorer 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 Fundescola Poorer 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.
Reconfiguring business model
– The expansion of digital payment system, the bringing down of international transactions costs using Bitcoin and other blockchain based currencies, etc can help Fundescola Poorer to reconfigure its entire business model. For example it can used blockchain based technologies to reduce piracy of its products in the big markets such as China. Secondly it can use the popularity of e-commerce in various developing markets to build a Direct to Customer business model rather than the current Channel Heavy distribution network.
Developing new processes and practices
– Fundescola Poorer 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.
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. Fundescola Poorer 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. Fundescola Poorer 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.
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. Fundescola Poorer can explore opportunities that can attract volunteers and are consistent with its mission and vision.
Building a culture of innovation
– managers at Fundescola Poorer can make experimentation a productive activity and build a culture of innovation using approaches such as – mining transaction data, A/B testing of websites and selling platforms, engaging potential customers over various needs, and building on small ideas in the Leadership & Managing People segment.
Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities
– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for Fundescola Poorer 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 Fundescola Poorer to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Fundescola Poorer 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 What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Fundescola Poorer to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
Threats What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform are -
Consumer confidence and its impact on Fundescola Poorer 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.
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.
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 Fundescola Poorer.
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. Fundescola Poorer needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Leadership & Managing People industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
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. Fundescola Poorer 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.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that Fundescola Poorer is facing in Leadership & Managing People sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– Fundescola Poorer has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Leadership & Managing People industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Fundescola Poorer 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.
High dependence on third party suppliers
– Fundescola Poorer 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.
Increasing wage structure of Fundescola Poorer
– 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 Fundescola Poorer.
Trade war between China and United States
– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for Fundescola Poorer 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.
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.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Fundescola Poorer 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.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Fundescola Poorer with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the sector.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform 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 What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform 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 What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform 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 What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform 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 What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform 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 Fundescola Poorer needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
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