Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
Leadership & Managing People
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Case Study Description of Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style
Many managers argue that, in principle, they would like to give employees more room for development and creativity, but given the urgent challenges resulting from the instability of domestic and global financial markets, they must focus on efficiency and cost cutting instead. But do humanistic principles and superior business performance really contradict each other? This article looks at some humanistic leadership principles underpinning successful organizations. It offers guidelines for managers on how humanistic leadership can renew an organization's direction, structure and capabilities, while also winning over employees, whose support is critical for success. The author suggests the factors that are hugely important for managing organizational change initiatives effectively. Finally, she summarizes existing research indicating that humanistic or ethically oriented leadership - often termed transformational leadership - can be linked to positive economic performance.
Swot Analysis of "Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style" written by Claudia Peus includes – strengths weakness that are internal strategic factors of the organization, and opportunities and threats that Humanistic Leadership facing as an external strategic factors. Some of the topics covered in Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style case study are - Strategic Management Strategies, Organizational culture and Leadership & Managing People.
Some of the macro environment factors that can be used to understand the Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style casestudy better are - – increasing commodity prices, increasing energy prices, challanges to central banks by blockchain based private currencies, increasing government debt because of Covid-19 spendings, competitive advantages are harder to sustain because of technology dispersion, geopolitical disruptions, customer relationship management is fast transforming because of increasing concerns over data privacy,
wage bills are increasing, increasing inequality as vast percentage of new income is going to the top 1%, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University , we believe that protagonist in Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style case study can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Humanistic Leadership, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Humanistic Leadership 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 Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning using facts provided in Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style case study
2. Improving business portfolio management of Humanistic Leadership
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 Humanistic Leadership
Strengths Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Humanistic Leadership in Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style Harvard Business Review case study are -
Ability to lead change in Leadership & Managing People field
– Humanistic Leadership 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 Humanistic Leadership in – penetrating new markets, reaching out to new customers, and providing different value propositions to different customers in the international markets.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of Humanistic Leadership in the segment is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Ability to recruit top talent
– Humanistic Leadership is one of the leading recruiters in the industry. Managers in the Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style are in a position to attract the best talent available. The firm has a robust talent identification program that helps in identifying the brightest.
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of Humanistic Leadership in the sector have low bargaining power. Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Humanistic Leadership to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in Leadership & Managing People industry
– Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style firm has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled Humanistic Leadership to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry. The sustainable margins have also helped Humanistic Leadership to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
Organizational Resilience of Humanistic Leadership
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing that Humanistic Leadership does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
Innovation driven organization
– Humanistic Leadership is one of the most innovative firm in sector. Manager in Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style Harvard Business Review case study can use Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation strategies to further increase the scale of innovtions in the organization.
High brand equity
– Humanistic Leadership has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Humanistic Leadership to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Humanistic Leadership 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 Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style HBR case study have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Analytics focus
– Humanistic Leadership 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 Claudia Peus 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.
Digital Transformation in Leadership & Managing People segment
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Humanistic Leadership digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Humanistic Leadership 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.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the Humanistic Leadership 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.
Weaknesses Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style are -
Products dominated business model
– Even though Humanistic Leadership 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 - Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.
No frontier risks strategy
– After analyzing the HBR case study Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style, 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.
Employees’ incomplete understanding of strategy
– From the instances in the HBR case study Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style, it seems that the employees of Humanistic Leadership 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.
Interest costs
– Compare to the competition, Humanistic Leadership 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.
Aligning sales with marketing
– It come across in the case study Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style 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 Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Humanistic Leadership is planning to shift buying processes online.
Low market penetration in new markets
– Outside its home market of Humanistic Leadership, firm in the HBR case study Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style needs to spend more promotional, marketing, and advertising efforts to penetrate international markets.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee as mentioned in the HBR case study Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style, is just above the industry average. Humanistic Leadership 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 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 Humanistic Leadership supply chain. Even after few cautionary changes mentioned in the HBR case study - Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style, it is still heavily dependent upon the existing supply chain. The existing supply chain though brings in cost efficiencies but it has left Humanistic Leadership vulnerable to further global disruptions in South East Asia.
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of Humanistic Leadership is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Leadership & Managing People segment. Humanistic Leadership needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Humanistic Leadership to focus more on services rather than just following the product oriented approach.
Slow to harness new channels of communication
– Even though competitors are using new communication channels such as Instagram, Tiktok, and Snap, Humanistic Leadership is slow explore the new channels of communication. These new channels of communication mentioned in marketing section of case study Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style 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 bargaining power of channel partners
– Because of the regulatory requirements, Claudia Peus suggests that, Humanistic Leadership 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.
Opportunities Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style | 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 Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style are -
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. Humanistic Leadership 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. Humanistic Leadership 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.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Humanistic Leadership 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.
Manufacturing automation
– Humanistic Leadership 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.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Humanistic Leadership 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 Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style - to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Humanistic Leadership 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. Humanistic Leadership can explore opportunities that can attract volunteers and are consistent with its mission and vision.
Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities
– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for Humanistic Leadership 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 Humanistic Leadership to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.
Buying journey improvements
– Humanistic Leadership can improve the customer journey of consumers in the industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style 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.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, Humanistic Leadership 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, Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style, 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 Humanistic Leadership 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
– Humanistic Leadership 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.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Humanistic Leadership 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.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Humanistic Leadership has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in the industry. This can help Humanistic Leadership to build a more holistic ecosystem as suggested in the Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style case study. Humanistic Leadership 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 Humanistic Leadership to increase its market reach. Humanistic Leadership 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.
Threats Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats mentioned in the HBR case study Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style are -
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– Humanistic Leadership has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Leadership & Managing People industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Humanistic Leadership 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 Humanistic Leadership.
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.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry in the industry are lowering. It can presents Humanistic Leadership with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the sector.
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 Humanistic Leadership business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
Environmental challenges
– Humanistic Leadership 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. Humanistic Leadership can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Leadership & Managing People industry.
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. Humanistic Leadership needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Leadership & Managing People industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
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. Humanistic Leadership can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Humanistic Leadership 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 Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style .
Regulatory challenges
– Humanistic Leadership 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.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that Humanistic Leadership is facing in Leadership & Managing People sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
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. Humanistic Leadership 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.
Increasing wage structure of Humanistic Leadership
– 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 Humanistic Leadership.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style 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 Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style 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 Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style 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 Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style 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 Giving Wings to Your Leadership Style 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 Humanistic Leadership needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.