El-Mor Electric 1986 (ELMR) SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / MBA Resources

Introduction to SWOT Analysis

SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix for El-Mor Electric 1986 (Israel)

Based on various researches at Oak Spring University , El-Mor Electric 1986 is operating in a macro-environment that has been destablized by – increasing commodity prices, central banks are concerned over increasing inflation, increasing energy prices, competitive advantages are harder to sustain because of technology dispersion, banking and financial system is disrupted by Bitcoin and other crypto currencies, talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, there is increasing trade war between United States & China, technology disruption, there is backlash against globalization, etc

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Introduction to SWOT Analysis of El-Mor Electric 1986

SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University, we believe that El-Mor Electric 1986 can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the El-Mor Electric 1986, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which El-Mor Electric 1986 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 El-Mor Electric 1986 can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning of El-Mor Electric 1986
2. Improving business portfolio management of El-Mor Electric 1986
3. Assessing feasibility of the new initiative in Israel
4. Making a Construction Services sector specific business decision
5. Set goals for the organization
6. Organizational restructuring of El-Mor Electric 1986

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Strengths of El-Mor Electric 1986 | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The strengths of El-Mor Electric 1986 are -

Cross disciplinary teams

– Horizontal connected teams at the El-Mor Electric 1986 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

– El-Mor Electric 1986 is one of the most innovative firm in Construction Services sector.

Digital Transformation in Construction Services industry

- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For El-Mor Electric 1986 digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. El-Mor Electric 1986 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.

High brand equity

– El-Mor Electric 1986 has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled El-Mor Electric 1986 to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.

Ability to lead change in Construction Services

– El-Mor Electric 1986 is one of the leading players in the Construction Services industry in Israel. Over the years it has not only transformed the business landscape in the Construction Services industry in Israel but also across the existing markets. The ability to lead change has enabled El-Mor Electric 1986 in – penetrating new markets, reaching out to new customers, and providing different value propositions to different customers in the international markets.

Organizational Resilience of El-Mor Electric 1986

– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing El-Mor Electric 1986 does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.

Diverse revenue streams

– El-Mor Electric 1986 is present in almost all the verticals within the Construction Services industry. This has provided El-Mor Electric 1986 a diverse revenue stream that has helped it to survive disruptions such as global pandemic in Covid-19, financial disruption of 2008, and supply chain disruption of 2021.

Ability to recruit top talent

– El-Mor Electric 1986 is one of the leading players in the Construction Services industry in Israel. It is in a position to attract the best talent available in Israel. The firm has a robust talent identification program that helps in identifying the brightest.

Highly skilled collaborators

– El-Mor Electric 1986 has highly efficient outsourcing and offshoring strategy. It has resulted in greater operational flexibility and bringing down the costs in highly price sensitive Construction Services industry. Secondly the value chain collaborators of El-Mor Electric 1986 have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.

Sustainable margins compare to other players in Construction Services industry

– El-Mor Electric 1986 has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled El-Mor Electric 1986 to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the Construction Services industry. The sustainable margins have also helped El-Mor Electric 1986 to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.

Analytics focus

– El-Mor Electric 1986 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 Construction Services industry. The technology infrastructure of Israel 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.

Effective Research and Development (R&D)

– El-Mor Electric 1986 has innovation driven culture where significant part of the revenues are spent on the research and development activities. This has resulted in – El-Mor Electric 1986 staying ahead in the Construction Services industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.

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Weaknesses of El-Mor Electric 1986 | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The weaknesses of El-Mor Electric 1986 are -

Ability to respond to the competition

– As the decision making is very deliberative at El-Mor Electric 1986, in the dynamic environment of Construction Services industry it has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. El-Mor Electric 1986 has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.

Capital Spending Reduction

– Even during the low interest decade, El-Mor Electric 1986 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 Construction Services industry using digital technology.

Aligning sales with marketing

– From the outside it seems that El-Mor Electric 1986 needs to have more collaboration between its sales team and marketing team. Sales professionals in the Construction Services industry have deep experience in developing customer relationships. Marketing department at El-Mor Electric 1986 can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as El-Mor Electric 1986 is planning to shift buying processes online.

Interest costs

– Compare to the competition, El-Mor Electric 1986 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.

Low market penetration in new markets

– Outside its home market of Israel, El-Mor Electric 1986 needs to spend more promotional, marketing, and advertising efforts to penetrate international markets.

Employees’ less understanding of El-Mor Electric 1986 strategy

– From the outside it seems that the employees of El-Mor Electric 1986 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.

Increasing silos among functional specialists

– The organizational structure of El-Mor Electric 1986 is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Construction Services industry, but El-Mor Electric 1986 needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help El-Mor Electric 1986 to focus more on services in the Construction Services industry 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, El-Mor Electric 1986 is slow explore the new channels of communication. These new channels of communication can help El-Mor Electric 1986 to provide better information regarding Construction Services products and services. It can also build an online community to further reach out to potential customers.

Lack of clear differentiation of El-Mor Electric 1986 products

– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, El-Mor Electric 1986 needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.

Workers concerns about automation

– As automation is fast increasing in the Construction Services industry, El-Mor Electric 1986 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 cash cycle compare to competitors

El-Mor Electric 1986 has a high cash cycle compare to other players in the Construction Services industry. It needs to shorten the cash cycle by 12% to be more competitive in the marketplace, reduce inventory costs, and be more profitable.

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El-Mor Electric 1986 Opportunities | External Strategic Factors
What are Opportunities in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The opportunities of El-Mor Electric 1986 are -

Loyalty marketing

– El-Mor Electric 1986 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.

Buying journey improvements

– El-Mor Electric 1986 can improve the customer journey of consumers in the Construction Services 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.

Developing new processes and practices

– El-Mor Electric 1986 can develop new processes and procedures in Construction Services 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.

Leveraging digital technologies

– El-Mor Electric 1986 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.

Building a culture of innovation

– managers at El-Mor Electric 1986 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 Construction Services industry.

Manufacturing automation

– El-Mor Electric 1986 can use the latest technology developments to improve its manufacturing and designing process in Construction Services 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.

Changes in consumer behavior post Covid-19

– consumer behavior has changed in the Construction Services industry because of Covid-19 restrictions. Some of this behavior will stay once things get back to normal. El-Mor Electric 1986 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. El-Mor Electric 1986 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.

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 El-Mor Electric 1986 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.

Increase in government spending

– As the United States and other governments are increasing social spending and infrastructure spending to build economies post Covid-19, El-Mor Electric 1986 can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that El-Mor Electric 1986 operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in Construction Services sector.

Use of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies for transactions in Construction Services industry

– The popularity of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies as asset class and medium of transaction has opened new opportunities for El-Mor Electric 1986 in the Construction Services industry. Now El-Mor Electric 1986 can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.

Creating value in data economy

– The success of analytics program of El-Mor Electric 1986 has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in Construction Services industry. This can help El-Mor Electric 1986 to build a more holistic ecosystem for El-Mor Electric 1986 products in the Construction Services industry by providing – data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.

Learning at scale

– Online learning technologies has now opened space for El-Mor Electric 1986 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.

Reforming the budgeting process

- By establishing new metrics that will be used to evaluate both existing and potential projects El-Mor Electric 1986 can not only reduce the costs of the project but also help it in integrating the projects with other processes within the organization.

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Threats El-Mor Electric 1986 External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The threats of El-Mor Electric 1986 are -

Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins

– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, El-Mor Electric 1986 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 El-Mor Electric 1986 prominent markets.

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 El-Mor Electric 1986.

Trade war between China and United States

– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for El-Mor Electric 1986 in Construction Services industry. The Construction Services 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.

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 El-Mor Electric 1986 business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.

High dependence on third party suppliers

– El-Mor Electric 1986 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.

Consumer confidence and its impact on El-Mor Electric 1986 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 Construction Services 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.

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. El-Mor Electric 1986 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.

Environmental challenges

– El-Mor Electric 1986 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. El-Mor Electric 1986 can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the Construction Services industry.

Shortening product life cycle

– it is one of the major threat that El-Mor Electric 1986 is facing in Construction Services sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.

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 El-Mor Electric 1986 in the Construction Services sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.

Stagnating economy with rate increase

– El-Mor Electric 1986 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 Construction Services 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. El-Mor Electric 1986 needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Construction Services industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.

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Weighted SWOT Analysis of El-Mor Electric 1986 Template, Example

Not all factors mentioned under the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats quadrants in the SWOT Analysis are equal. Managers at El-Mor Electric 1986 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 El-Mor Electric 1986 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 El-Mor Electric 1986 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 El-Mor Electric 1986 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 El-Mor Electric 1986 needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.

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