Nusantara Inti Corpora (UNIT) SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / MBA Resources

Introduction to SWOT Analysis

SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix for Nusantara Inti Corpora (Indonesia)

Based on various researches at Oak Spring University , Nusantara Inti Corpora is operating in a macro-environment that has been destablized by – increasing energy prices, increasing government debt because of Covid-19 spendings, technology disruption, challanges to central banks by blockchain based private currencies, cloud computing is disrupting traditional business models, talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, wage bills are increasing, increasing inequality as vast percentage of new income is going to the top 1%, increasing commodity prices, etc

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Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Nusantara Inti Corpora

SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University, we believe that Nusantara Inti Corpora can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Nusantara Inti Corpora, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Nusantara Inti Corpora 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.

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SWOT Objectives / Importance of SWOT Analysis and SWOT Matrix

SWOT analysis of Nusantara Inti Corpora can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning of Nusantara Inti Corpora
2. Improving business portfolio management of Nusantara Inti Corpora
3. Assessing feasibility of the new initiative in Indonesia
4. Making a Textiles - Non Apparel sector specific business decision
5. Set goals for the organization
6. Organizational restructuring of Nusantara Inti Corpora

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Strengths of Nusantara Inti Corpora | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The strengths of Nusantara Inti Corpora are -

Analytics focus

– Nusantara Inti Corpora 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 Textiles - Non Apparel industry. The technology infrastructure of Indonesia is also helping 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 Textiles - Non Apparel industry

- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For Nusantara Inti Corpora digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. Nusantara Inti Corpora 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.

Diverse revenue streams

– Nusantara Inti Corpora is present in almost all the verticals within the Textiles - Non Apparel industry. This has provided Nusantara Inti Corpora a diverse revenue stream that has helped it to survive disruptions such as global pandemic in Covid-19, financial disruption of 2008, and supply chain disruption of 2021.

Operational resilience

– The operational resilience strategy of Nusantara Inti Corpora comprises – understanding the underlying the factors in the Textiles - Non Apparel 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.

High brand equity

– Nusantara Inti Corpora has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Nusantara Inti Corpora to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.

Low bargaining power of suppliers

– Suppliers of Nusantara Inti Corpora in the Consumer Cyclical sector have low bargaining power. Nusantara Inti Corpora has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Nusantara Inti Corpora to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.

Cross disciplinary teams

– Horizontal connected teams at the Nusantara Inti Corpora 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.

Innovation driven organization

– Nusantara Inti Corpora is one of the most innovative firm in Textiles - Non Apparel sector.

Learning organization

- Nusantara Inti Corpora 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 Nusantara Inti Corpora is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders at Nusantara Inti Corpora emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.

Ability to lead change in Textiles - Non Apparel

– Nusantara Inti Corpora is one of the leading players in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry in Indonesia. Over the years it has not only transformed the business landscape in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry in Indonesia but also across the existing markets. The ability to lead change has enabled Nusantara Inti Corpora in – penetrating new markets, reaching out to new customers, and providing different value propositions to different customers in the international markets.

Successful track record of launching new products

– Nusantara Inti Corpora has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Nusantara Inti Corpora has effective processes in place that helps in exploring new product needs, doing quick pilot testing, and then launching the products quickly using its extensive distribution network.

Organizational Resilience of Nusantara Inti Corpora

– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing Nusantara Inti Corpora does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.

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Weaknesses of Nusantara Inti Corpora | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The weaknesses of Nusantara Inti Corpora are -

Slow to strategic competitive environment developments

– As Nusantara Inti Corpora is one of the leading players in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry, it takes time to assess the upcoming competitions. This has led to missing out on atleast 2-3 big opportunities in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry in last five years.

Aligning sales with marketing

– From the outside it seems that Nusantara Inti Corpora needs to have more collaboration between its sales team and marketing team. Sales professionals in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry have deep experience in developing customer relationships. Marketing department at Nusantara Inti Corpora can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Nusantara Inti Corpora is planning to shift buying processes online.

Lack of clear differentiation of Nusantara Inti Corpora products

– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, Nusantara Inti Corpora needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.

Skills based hiring in Textiles - Non Apparel industry

– The stress on hiring functional specialists at Nusantara Inti Corpora 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.

Need for greater diversity

– Nusantara Inti Corpora 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.

High cash cycle compare to competitors

Nusantara Inti Corpora has a high cash cycle compare to other players in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry. It needs to shorten the cash cycle by 12% to be more competitive in the marketplace, reduce inventory costs, and be more profitable.

Interest costs

– Compare to the competition, Nusantara Inti Corpora 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 operating costs

– Compare to the competitors, Nusantara Inti Corpora has high operating costs in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry. This can be harder to sustain given the new emerging competition from nimble players who are using technology to attract Nusantara Inti Corpora lucrative customers.

Slow to harness new channels of communication

– Even though competitors are using new communication channels such as Instagram, Tiktok, and Snap, Nusantara Inti Corpora is slow explore the new channels of communication. These new channels of communication can help Nusantara Inti Corpora to provide better information regarding Textiles - Non Apparel products and services. It can also build an online community to further reach out to potential customers.

Low market penetration in new markets

– Outside its home market of Indonesia, Nusantara Inti Corpora needs to spend more promotional, marketing, and advertising efforts to penetrate international markets.

Increasing silos among functional specialists

– The organizational structure of Nusantara Inti Corpora is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry, but Nusantara Inti Corpora needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Nusantara Inti Corpora to focus more on services in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry rather than just following the product oriented approach.

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Nusantara Inti Corpora Opportunities | External Strategic Factors
What are Opportunities in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The opportunities of Nusantara Inti Corpora are -

Learning at scale

– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Nusantara Inti Corpora 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.

Lowering marketing communication costs

– 5G expansion will open new opportunities for Nusantara Inti Corpora in the field of marketing communication. It will bring down the cost of doing business, provide technology platform to build new products in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry, and it will provide faster access to the consumers.

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 Nusantara Inti Corpora 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.

Use of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies for transactions in Textiles - Non Apparel industry

– The popularity of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies as asset class and medium of transaction has opened new opportunities for Nusantara Inti Corpora in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry. Now Nusantara Inti Corpora can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.

Loyalty marketing

– Nusantara Inti Corpora 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.

Creating value in data economy

– The success of analytics program of Nusantara Inti Corpora has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in Textiles - Non Apparel industry. This can help Nusantara Inti Corpora to build a more holistic ecosystem for Nusantara Inti Corpora products in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry by providing – data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.

Changes in consumer behavior post Covid-19

– consumer behavior has changed in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry because of Covid-19 restrictions. Some of this behavior will stay once things get back to normal. Nusantara Inti Corpora 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. Nusantara Inti Corpora 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.

Low interest rates

– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, Nusantara Inti Corpora 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, Nusantara Inti Corpora 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 Nusantara Inti Corpora to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.

Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities

– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for Nusantara Inti Corpora 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 Nusantara Inti Corpora to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.

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. Nusantara Inti Corpora can explore opportunities that can attract volunteers and are consistent with its mission and vision.

Buying journey improvements

– Nusantara Inti Corpora can improve the customer journey of consumers in the Textiles - Non Apparel 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.

Manufacturing automation

– Nusantara Inti Corpora can use the latest technology developments to improve its manufacturing and designing process in Textiles - Non Apparel sector. 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.

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Threats Nusantara Inti Corpora External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The threats of Nusantara Inti Corpora are -

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 Nusantara Inti Corpora.

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 Nusantara Inti Corpora in the Textiles - Non Apparel sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.

Easy access to finance

– Easy access to finance in Textiles - Non Apparel industry will also reduce the barriers to entry in the industry, thus putting downward pressure on the prices because of increasing competition. Nusantara Inti Corpora can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.

Increasing wage structure of Nusantara Inti Corpora

– 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 Nusantara Inti Corpora.

High dependence on third party suppliers

– Nusantara Inti Corpora 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.

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.

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. Nusantara Inti Corpora needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Textiles - Non Apparel industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.

Barriers of entry lowering

– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry to Textiles - Non Apparel industry are lowering. It can presents Nusantara Inti Corpora with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the Textiles - Non Apparel sector.

Stagnating economy with rate increase

– Nusantara Inti Corpora 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 Textiles - Non Apparel industry.

Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution

– Nusantara Inti Corpora has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Nusantara Inti Corpora needs to keep up with the evolution of technology in the Textiles - Non Apparel 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.

Shortening product life cycle

– it is one of the major threat that Nusantara Inti Corpora is facing in Textiles - Non Apparel sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.

Regulatory challenges

– Nusantara Inti Corpora 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 Textiles - Non Apparel industry regulations.

Environmental challenges

– Nusantara Inti Corpora 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. Nusantara Inti Corpora can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Textiles - Non Apparel industry.

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Weighted SWOT Analysis of Nusantara Inti Corpora Template, Example

Not all factors mentioned under the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats quadrants in the SWOT Analysis are equal. Managers at Nusantara Inti Corpora 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 Nusantara Inti Corpora 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 Nusantara Inti Corpora 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 Nusantara Inti Corpora 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 Nusantara Inti Corpora needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.

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