Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net (SBTV) SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / MBA Resources
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Introduction to SWOT Analysis
SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix for Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net (India)
Based on various researches at Oak Spring University , Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net is operating in a macro-environment that has been destablized by – wage bills are increasing, there is increasing trade war between United States & China, supply chains are disrupted by pandemic , increasing government debt because of Covid-19 spendings, geopolitical disruptions, increasing commodity prices, there is backlash against globalization,
technology disruption, digital marketing is dominated by two big players Facebook and Google, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University, we believe that Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net
2. Improving business portfolio management of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net
3. Assessing feasibility of the new initiative in India
4. Making a Broadcasting & Cable TV sector specific business decision
5. Set goals for the organization
6. Organizational restructuring of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net
Strengths of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net are -
Operational resilience
– The operational resilience strategy of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net comprises – understanding the underlying the factors in the Broadcasting & Cable TV 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.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net has innovation driven culture where significant part of the revenues are spent on the research and development activities. This has resulted in – Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net staying ahead in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net in Broadcasting & Cable TV industry is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in Broadcasting & Cable TV industry
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry. The sustainable margins have also helped Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
Ability to lead change in Broadcasting & Cable TV
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net is one of the leading players in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry in India. Over the years it has not only transformed the business landscape in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry in India but also across the existing markets. The ability to lead change has enabled Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net in – penetrating new markets, reaching out to new customers, and providing different value propositions to different customers in the international markets.
Organizational Resilience of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
Training and development
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net has one of the best training and development program in Services industry. The effectiveness of the training programs can be measured in – employees retention, in-house promotion, loyalty, new venture initiation, lack of conflict, and high level of both employees and customer engagement.
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net in the Services sector have low bargaining power. Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Strong track record of project management in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net is known for sticking to its project targets. This enables the firm to manage – time, project costs, and have sustainable margins on the projects.
Successful track record of launching new products
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 switching costs
– The high switching costs that Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net has built up over years in its products and services combo offer has resulted in high retention of customers, lower marketing costs, and greater ability of the firm to focus on its customers.
Ability to recruit top talent
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net is one of the leading players in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry in India. It is in a position to attract the best talent available in India. The firm has a robust talent identification program that helps in identifying the brightest.
Weaknesses of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net are -
Slow to strategic competitive environment developments
– As Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net is one of the leading players in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry, it takes time to assess the upcoming competitions. This has led to missing out on atleast 2-3 big opportunities in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry in last five years.
Slow decision making process
– As mentioned earlier in the report, Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net has a very deliberative decision making approach. This approach has resulted in prudent decisions, but it has also resulted in missing opportunities in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry over the last five years. Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative at Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net, in the dynamic environment of Broadcasting & Cable TV industry it has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
High cash cycle compare to competitors
Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net has a high cash cycle compare to other players in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry. It needs to shorten the cash cycle by 12% to be more competitive in the marketplace, reduce inventory costs, and be more profitable.
Capital Spending Reduction
– Even during the low interest decade, Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 Broadcasting & Cable TV industry using digital technology.
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry, but Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net to focus more on services in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry rather than just following the product oriented approach.
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 Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net supply chain. Even after few cautionary changes, Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net is still heavily dependent upon the existing supply chain. The existing supply chain though brings in cost efficiencies but it has left Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net vulnerable to further global disruptions in South East Asia.
High bargaining power of channel partners in Broadcasting & Cable TV industry
– because of the regulatory requirements in India, Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 Broadcasting & Cable TV industry.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net is just above the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry average. It 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 Broadcasting & Cable TV industry, Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net ‘s star products
– The top 2 products and services of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net still accounts for major business revenue. This dependence on star products in Broadcasting & Cable TV industry has resulted into insufficient focus on developing new products, even though Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net has relatively successful track record of launching new products.
Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net Opportunities | External Strategic Factors
What are Opportunities in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The opportunities of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net are -
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net has spent a significant amount of money and effort to integrate analytics and machine learning into its operations in Broadcasting & Cable TV sector. This continuous investment in analytics has enabled Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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.
Lowering marketing communication costs
– 5G expansion will open new opportunities for Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net in the field of marketing communication. It will bring down the cost of doing business, provide technology platform to build new products in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry, and it will provide faster access to the consumers.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Developing new processes and practices
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net can develop new processes and procedures in Broadcasting & Cable TV 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.
Use of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies for transactions in Broadcasting & Cable TV industry
– The popularity of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies as asset class and medium of transaction has opened new opportunities for Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry. Now Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.
Loyalty marketing
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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.
Building a culture of innovation
– managers at Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 Broadcasting & Cable TV industry.
Buying journey improvements
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net can improve the customer journey of consumers in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry by using analytics and artificial intelligence. It 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.
Finding new ways to collaborate
– Covid-19 has not only transformed business models of companies in Broadcasting & Cable TV industry, but it has also influenced the consumer preferences. Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net can tie-up with other value chain partners to explore new opportunities regarding meeting customer demands and building a rewarding and engaging relationship.
Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities
– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.
Increase in government spending
– As the United States and other governments are increasing social spending and infrastructure spending to build economies post Covid-19, Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in Broadcasting & Cable TV sector.
Leveraging digital technologies
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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.
Threats Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net are -
High dependence on third party suppliers
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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.
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. Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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.
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 Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net.
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. Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry to Broadcasting & Cable TV industry are lowering. It can presents Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the Broadcasting & Cable TV sector.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 Broadcasting & Cable TV industry.
Increasing wage structure of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net
– 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 Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net.
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 Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net in the Broadcasting & Cable TV sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
Consumer confidence and its impact on Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 Broadcasting & Cable TV industry and other sectors.
Trade war between China and United States
– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net in Broadcasting & Cable TV industry. The Broadcasting & Cable TV 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.
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.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net is facing in Broadcasting & Cable TV sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
Environmental challenges
– Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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. Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Broadcasting & Cable TV industry.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net Template, Example
Not all factors mentioned under the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats quadrants in the SWOT Analysis are equal. Managers at Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net 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 Sri Adhikari Brothers TV Net needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
