Based on various researches at Oak Spring University , Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed is operating in a macro-environment that has been destablized by – there is increasing trade war between United States & China, technology disruption, competitive advantages are harder to sustain because of technology dispersion, banking and financial system is disrupted by Bitcoin and other crypto currencies, increasing commodity prices, increasing inequality as vast percentage of new income is going to the top 1%, challanges to central banks by blockchain based private currencies,
increasing government debt because of Covid-19 spendings, geopolitical disruptions, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University, we believe that Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed
2. Improving business portfolio management of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed
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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed
Strengths of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed are -
Organizational Resilience of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed has highly efficient outsourcing and offshoring strategy. It has resulted in greater operational flexibility and bringing down the costs in highly price sensitive Misc. Financial Services industry. Secondly the value chain collaborators of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in Misc. Financial Services industry
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the Misc. Financial Services industry. The sustainable margins have also helped Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed in the Financial sector have low bargaining power. Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed has innovation driven culture where significant part of the revenues are spent on the research and development activities. This has resulted in – Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed in Misc. Financial Services industry is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Ability to lead change in Misc. Financial Services
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed is one of the leading players in the Misc. Financial Services industry in United States. Over the years it has not only transformed the business landscape in the Misc. Financial Services industry in United States but also across the existing markets. The ability to lead change has enabled Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed in – penetrating new markets, reaching out to new customers, and providing different value propositions to different customers in the international markets.
High brand equity
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Analytics focus
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
Strong track record of project management in the Misc. Financial Services industry
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed is known for sticking to its project targets. This enables the firm to manage – time, project costs, and have sustainable margins on the projects.
Learning organization
- Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders at Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
Training and development
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed has one of the best training and development program in Financial 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.
Weaknesses of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed are -
Aligning sales with marketing
– From the outside it seems that Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed is planning to shift buying processes online.
No frontier risks strategy
– From the 10K / annual statement of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed, it seems that company is thinking out the frontier risks that can impact Misc. Financial Services 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.
High cash cycle compare to competitors
Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed has a high cash cycle compare to other players in the Misc. Financial 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.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative at Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed, in the dynamic environment of Misc. Financial Services industry it has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
Lack of clear differentiation of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed products
– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.
Need for greater diversity
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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 bargaining power of channel partners in Misc. Financial Services industry
– because of the regulatory requirements in United States, Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
Slow to harness new channels of communication
– Even though competitors are using new communication channels such as Instagram, Tiktok, and Snap, Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed is slow explore the new channels of communication. These new channels of communication can help Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed to provide better information regarding Misc. Financial Services products and services. It can also build an online community to further reach out to potential customers.
Increasing silos among functional specialists
– The organizational structure of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed is dominated by functional specialists. It is not different from other players in the Misc. Financial Services industry, but Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed needs to de-silo the office environment to harness the true potential of its workforce. Secondly the de-silo will also help Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed to focus more on services in the Misc. Financial Services industry rather than just following the product oriented approach.
Skills based hiring in Misc. Financial Services industry
– The stress on hiring functional specialists at Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed Opportunities | External Strategic Factors
What are Opportunities in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The opportunities of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed are -
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. Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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. Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed in the Misc. Financial Services industry. Now Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in Misc. Financial Services industry. This can help Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed to build a more holistic ecosystem for Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed products in the Misc. Financial Services industry by providing – data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.
Developing new processes and practices
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
Buying journey improvements
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed can improve the customer journey of consumers in the Misc. Financial 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.
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. Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed can tie-up with other value chain partners to explore new opportunities regarding meeting customer demands and building a rewarding and engaging relationship.
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. Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed can explore opportunities that can attract volunteers and are consistent with its mission and vision.
Manufacturing automation
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed has focused on building a highly responsive customer relationship management platform. This platform is built on in-house data and driven by analytics and artificial intelligence. The customer analytics can help the organization to fine tune its loyalty marketing efforts, increase the wallet share of the organization, reduce wastage on mainstream advertising spending, build better pricing strategies using personalization, etc.
Building a culture of innovation
– managers at Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
Threats Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed are -
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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed in the Misc. Financial Services sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
Regulatory challenges
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed prominent markets.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed is facing in Misc. Financial Services sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
Trade war between China and United States
– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
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. Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.
Consumer confidence and its impact on Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry to Misc. Financial Services industry are lowering. It can presents Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the Misc. Financial Services sector.
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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
Increasing wage structure of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed
– 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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed.
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.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed Template, Example
Not all factors mentioned under the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats quadrants in the SWOT Analysis are equal. Managers at Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed 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 Guggenheim Enhanced Equityom Closed needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.