Based on various researches at Oak Spring University , FII Edificio Almirante Barroso is operating in a macro-environment that has been destablized by – there is backlash against globalization, challanges to central banks by blockchain based private currencies, increasing inequality as vast percentage of new income is going to the top 1%, customer relationship management is fast transforming because of increasing concerns over data privacy, geopolitical disruptions, increasing energy prices, talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs,
increasing transportation and logistics costs, there is increasing trade war between United States & China, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University, we believe that FII Edificio Almirante Barroso can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the FII Edificio Almirante Barroso, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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 FII Edificio Almirante Barroso can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso
2. Improving business portfolio management of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso
3. Assessing feasibility of the new initiative in Brazil
4. Making a NA sector specific business decision
5. Set goals for the organization
6. Organizational restructuring of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso
Strengths of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso are -
Learning organization
- FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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 FII Edificio Almirante Barroso is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders at FII Edificio Almirante Barroso emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso has innovation driven culture where significant part of the revenues are spent on the research and development activities. This has resulted in – FII Edificio Almirante Barroso staying ahead in the NA industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in NA industry
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled FII Edificio Almirante Barroso to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the NA industry. The sustainable margins have also helped FII Edificio Almirante Barroso to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
Successful track record of launching new products
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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.
Training and development
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso has one of the best training and development program in NA 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.
Organizational Resilience of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing FII Edificio Almirante Barroso does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
Innovation driven organization
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso is one of the most innovative firm in NA sector.
Diverse revenue streams
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso is present in almost all the verticals within the NA industry. This has provided FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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.
High brand equity
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled FII Edificio Almirante Barroso to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Operational resilience
– The operational resilience strategy of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso comprises – understanding the underlying the factors in the NA 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.
Highly skilled collaborators
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso has highly efficient outsourcing and offshoring strategy. It has resulted in greater operational flexibility and bringing down the costs in highly price sensitive NA industry. Secondly the value chain collaborators of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Digital Transformation in NA industry
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For FII Edificio Almirante Barroso digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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.
Weaknesses of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso are -
Lack of clear differentiation of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso products
– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, FII Edificio Almirante Barroso needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.
Slow to harness new channels of communication
– Even though competitors are using new communication channels such as Instagram, Tiktok, and Snap, FII Edificio Almirante Barroso is slow explore the new channels of communication. These new channels of communication can help FII Edificio Almirante Barroso to provide better information regarding NA products and services. It can also build an online community to further reach out to potential customers.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative at FII Edificio Almirante Barroso, in the dynamic environment of NA industry it has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. FII Edificio Almirante Barroso has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
Employees’ less understanding of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso strategy
– From the outside it seems that the employees of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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.
No frontier risks strategy
– From the 10K / annual statement of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso, it seems that company is thinking out the frontier risks that can impact NA industry. 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.
Skills based hiring in NA industry
– The stress on hiring functional specialists at FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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.
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the NA industry, but FII Edificio Almirante Barroso needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help FII Edificio Almirante Barroso to focus more on services in the NA 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 FII Edificio Almirante Barroso supply chain. Even after few cautionary changes, FII Edificio Almirante Barroso is still heavily dependent upon the existing supply chain. The existing supply chain though brings in cost efficiencies but it has left FII Edificio Almirante Barroso vulnerable to further global disruptions in South East Asia.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso is just above the NA 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.
Slow to strategic competitive environment developments
– As FII Edificio Almirante Barroso is one of the leading players in the NA industry, it takes time to assess the upcoming competitions. This has led to missing out on atleast 2-3 big opportunities in the NA industry in last five years.
High operating costs
– Compare to the competitors, FII Edificio Almirante Barroso has high operating costs in the NA industry. This can be harder to sustain given the new emerging competition from nimble players who are using technology to attract FII Edificio Almirante Barroso lucrative customers.
FII Edificio Almirante Barroso Opportunities | External Strategic Factors
What are Opportunities in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The opportunities of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso are -
Changes in consumer behavior post Covid-19
– consumer behavior has changed in the NA industry because of Covid-19 restrictions. Some of this behavior will stay once things get back to normal. FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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. FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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.
Finding new ways to collaborate
– Covid-19 has not only transformed business models of companies in NA industry, but it has also influenced the consumer preferences. FII Edificio Almirante Barroso can tie-up with other value chain partners to explore new opportunities regarding meeting customer demands and building a rewarding and engaging relationship.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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 FII Edificio Almirante Barroso to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for FII Edificio Almirante Barroso to conduct training and development for its employees across the world. This will result in not only reducing the cost of training but also help employees in different part of the world to integrate with the headquarter work culture, ethos, and standards.
Reconfiguring business model
– The expansion of digital payment system, the bringing down of international transactions costs using Bitcoin and other blockchain based currencies, etc can help FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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.
Loyalty marketing
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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.
Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities
– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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 FII Edificio Almirante Barroso to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso has spent a significant amount of money and effort to integrate analytics and machine learning into its operations in NA sector. This continuous investment in analytics has enabled FII Edificio Almirante Barroso to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help FII Edificio Almirante Barroso to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
Leveraging digital technologies
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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 FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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 NA industry.
Use of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies for transactions in NA industry
– The popularity of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies as asset class and medium of transaction has opened new opportunities for FII Edificio Almirante Barroso in the NA industry. Now FII Edificio Almirante Barroso can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.
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. FII Edificio Almirante Barroso can explore opportunities that can attract volunteers and are consistent with its mission and vision.
Threats FII Edificio Almirante Barroso External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso are -
Consumer confidence and its impact on FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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 NA 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.
High dependence on third party suppliers
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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.
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 FII Edificio Almirante Barroso business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the NA industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, FII Edificio Almirante Barroso needs to keep up with the evolution of technology in the NA 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.
Increasing wage structure of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso
– 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 FII Edificio Almirante Barroso.
Regulatory challenges
– FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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 NA industry regulations.
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.
Learning curve for new practices
– As the technology based on artificial intelligence and machine learning platform is getting complex, FII Edificio Almirante Barroso may face longer learning curve for training and development of existing employees. This can open space for more nimble competitors in the field of NA sector.
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 FII Edificio Almirante Barroso in the NA sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
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. FII Edificio Almirante Barroso needs to understand the core reasons impacting the NA industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that FII Edificio Almirante Barroso is facing in NA sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
Easy access to finance
– Easy access to finance in NA industry will also reduce the barriers to entry in the industry, thus putting downward pressure on the prices because of increasing competition. FII Edificio Almirante Barroso can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of FII Edificio Almirante Barroso Template, Example
Not all factors mentioned under the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats quadrants in the SWOT Analysis are equal. Managers at FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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 FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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 FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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 FII Edificio Almirante Barroso 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 FII Edificio Almirante Barroso needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.