WF Global Dividend Opportunity (EOD) SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / MBA Resources

Introduction to SWOT Analysis

SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix for WF Global Dividend Opportunity (United States)

Based on various researches at Oak Spring University , WF Global Dividend Opportunity is operating in a macro-environment that has been destablized by – there is increasing trade war between United States & China, there is backlash against globalization, geopolitical disruptions, technology disruption, increasing commodity prices, supply chains are disrupted by pandemic , increasing transportation and logistics costs, increasing energy prices, increasing household debt because of falling income levels, etc

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Introduction to SWOT Analysis of WF Global Dividend Opportunity

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

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Strengths of WF Global Dividend Opportunity | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The strengths of WF Global Dividend Opportunity are -

Innovation driven organization

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity is one of the most innovative firm in Misc. Financial Services sector.

Superior customer experience

– The customer experience strategy of WF Global Dividend Opportunity in Misc. Financial Services industry is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.

Ability to recruit top talent

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity is one of the leading players in the Misc. Financial Services industry in United States. It is in a position to attract the best talent available in United States. The firm has a robust talent identification program that helps in identifying the brightest.

High brand equity

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled WF Global Dividend Opportunity to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.

Analytics focus

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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 Misc. Financial Services industry. The technology infrastructure of United States 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.

High switching costs

– The high switching costs that WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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.

Diverse revenue streams

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity is present in almost all the verticals within the Misc. Financial Services industry. This has provided WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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.

Effective Research and Development (R&D)

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity has innovation driven culture where significant part of the revenues are spent on the research and development activities. This has resulted in – WF Global Dividend Opportunity staying ahead in the Misc. Financial Services industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.

Strong track record of project management in the Misc. Financial Services industry

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity is known for sticking to its project targets. This enables the firm to manage – time, project costs, and have sustainable margins on the projects.

Cross disciplinary teams

– Horizontal connected teams at the WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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.

Digital Transformation in Misc. Financial Services industry

- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For WF Global Dividend Opportunity digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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.

Low bargaining power of suppliers

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

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Weaknesses of WF Global Dividend Opportunity | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The weaknesses of WF Global Dividend Opportunity are -

Employees’ less understanding of WF Global Dividend Opportunity strategy

– From the outside it seems that the employees of WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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.

Compensation and incentives

– The revenue per employee of WF Global Dividend Opportunity is just above the Misc. Financial Services 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.

Need for greater diversity

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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.

Increasing silos among functional specialists

– The organizational structure of WF Global Dividend Opportunity is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Misc. Financial Services industry, but WF Global Dividend Opportunity needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help WF Global Dividend Opportunity to focus more on services in the Misc. Financial Services industry rather than just following the product oriented approach.

High bargaining power of channel partners in Misc. Financial Services industry

– because of the regulatory requirements in United States, WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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 Misc. Financial Services industry.

High operating costs

– Compare to the competitors, WF Global Dividend Opportunity has high operating costs in the Misc. Financial Services industry. This can be harder to sustain given the new emerging competition from nimble players who are using technology to attract WF Global Dividend Opportunity lucrative customers.

Ability to respond to the competition

– As the decision making is very deliberative at WF Global Dividend Opportunity, in the dynamic environment of Misc. Financial Services industry it has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. WF Global Dividend Opportunity has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.

Lack of clear differentiation of WF Global Dividend Opportunity products

– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, WF Global Dividend Opportunity needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.

Slow decision making process

– As mentioned earlier in the report, WF Global Dividend Opportunity has a very deliberative decision making approach. This approach has resulted in prudent decisions, but it has also resulted in missing opportunities in the Misc. Financial Services industry over the last five years. WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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.

Aligning sales with marketing

– From the outside it seems that WF Global Dividend Opportunity needs to have more collaboration between its sales team and marketing team. Sales professionals in the Misc. Financial Services industry have deep experience in developing customer relationships. Marketing department at WF Global Dividend Opportunity can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as WF Global Dividend Opportunity is planning to shift buying processes online.

Products dominated business model

– Even though WF Global Dividend Opportunity has some of the most successful models in the Misc. Financial Services industry, this business model has made each new product launch extremely critical for continuous financial growth of the organization. WF Global Dividend Opportunity should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.

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WF Global Dividend Opportunity Opportunities | External Strategic Factors
What are Opportunities in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The opportunities of WF Global Dividend Opportunity are -

Low interest rates

– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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.

Creating value in data economy

– The success of analytics program of WF Global Dividend Opportunity has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in Misc. Financial Services industry. This can help WF Global Dividend Opportunity to build a more holistic ecosystem for WF Global Dividend Opportunity products in the Misc. Financial 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 WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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 WF Global Dividend Opportunity can not only reduce the costs of the project but also help it in integrating the projects with other processes within the organization.

Building a culture of innovation

– managers at WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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 Misc. Financial Services industry.

Use of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies for transactions in Misc. Financial Services industry

– The popularity of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies as asset class and medium of transaction has opened new opportunities for WF Global Dividend Opportunity in the Misc. Financial Services industry. Now WF Global Dividend Opportunity can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.

Changes in consumer behavior post Covid-19

– consumer behavior has changed in the Misc. Financial Services industry because of Covid-19 restrictions. Some of this behavior will stay once things get back to normal. WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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. WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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.

Developing new processes and practices

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity can develop new processes and procedures in Misc. Financial 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.

Better consumer reach

– The expansion of the 5G network will help WF Global Dividend Opportunity to increase its market reach. WF Global Dividend Opportunity will be able to reach out to new customers. Secondly 5G will also provide technology framework to build new tools and products that can help more immersive consumer experience and faster consumer journey.

Manufacturing automation

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity can use the latest technology developments to improve its manufacturing and designing process in Misc. Financial 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.

Loyalty marketing

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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.

Finding new ways to collaborate

– Covid-19 has not only transformed business models of companies in Misc. Financial Services industry, but it has also influenced the consumer preferences. WF Global Dividend Opportunity can tie-up with other value chain partners to explore new opportunities regarding meeting customer demands and building a rewarding and engaging relationship.

Lowering marketing communication costs

– 5G expansion will open new opportunities for WF Global Dividend Opportunity in the field of marketing communication. It will bring down the cost of doing business, provide technology platform to build new products in the Misc. Financial Services industry, and it will provide faster access to the consumers.

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Threats WF Global Dividend Opportunity External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis

The threats of WF Global Dividend Opportunity are -

High dependence on third party suppliers

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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.

Easy access to finance

– Easy access to finance in Misc. Financial Services industry will also reduce the barriers to entry in the industry, thus putting downward pressure on the prices because of increasing competition. WF Global Dividend Opportunity can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.

Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins

– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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 WF Global Dividend Opportunity prominent markets.

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.

Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the Misc. Financial Services industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, WF Global Dividend Opportunity needs to keep up with the evolution of technology in the Misc. Financial Services sector. According to Mckinsey study top managers believe that the adoption of technology in operations, communications is 20-25 times faster than what they planned in the beginning of 2019.

Capital market disruption

– During the Covid-19, Dow Jones has touched record high. The valuations of a number of companies are way beyond their existing business model potential. This can lead to capital market correction which can put a number of suppliers, collaborators, value chain partners in great financial difficulty. It will directly impact the business of WF Global Dividend Opportunity.

Trade war between China and United States

– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for WF Global Dividend Opportunity in Misc. Financial Services industry. The Misc. Financial 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.

Increasing wage structure of WF Global Dividend Opportunity

– 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 WF Global Dividend Opportunity.

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. WF Global Dividend Opportunity needs to understand the core reasons impacting the Misc. Financial Services industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.

Consumer confidence and its impact on WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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 Misc. Financial Services industry and other sectors.

Regulatory challenges

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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 Misc. Financial Services industry regulations.

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 WF Global Dividend Opportunity in the Misc. Financial Services sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.

Stagnating economy with rate increase

– WF Global Dividend Opportunity 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 Misc. Financial Services industry.

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Weighted SWOT Analysis of WF Global Dividend Opportunity Template, Example

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

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