UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 (LBDC) SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / MBA Resources
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Introduction to SWOT Analysis
SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix for UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 (United States)
Based on various researches at Oak Spring University , UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 is operating in a macro-environment that has been destablized by – increasing commodity prices, increasing energy prices, geopolitical disruptions, talent flight as more people leaving formal jobs, increasing transportation and logistics costs, competitive advantages are harder to sustain because of technology dispersion, increasing household debt because of falling income levels,
wage bills are increasing, cloud computing is disrupting traditional business models, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University, we believe that UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3
2. Improving business portfolio management of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3
3. Assessing feasibility of the new initiative in United States
4. Making a sector specific business decision
5. Set goals for the organization
6. Organizational restructuring of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3
Strengths of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 are -
Successful track record of launching new products
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 in industry is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Digital Transformation in industry
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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.
Learning organization
- UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders at UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
Low bargaining power of suppliers
– Suppliers of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 in the sector have low bargaining power. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 has further diversified its suppliers portfolio by building a robust supply chain across various countries. This helps UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 to manage not only supply disruptions but also source products at highly competitive prices.
Operational resilience
– The operational resilience strategy of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 comprises – understanding the underlying the factors in the 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.
Training and development
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 has one of the best training and development program in 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.
Analytics focus
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 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 industry
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 is known for sticking to its project targets. This enables the firm to manage – time, project costs, and have sustainable margins on the projects.
Highly skilled collaborators
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 has highly efficient outsourcing and offshoring strategy. It has resulted in greater operational flexibility and bringing down the costs in highly price sensitive industry. Secondly the value chain collaborators of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Diverse revenue streams
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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.
Weaknesses of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 are -
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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 supply chain. Even after few cautionary changes, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 is still heavily dependent upon the existing supply chain. The existing supply chain though brings in cost efficiencies but it has left UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 vulnerable to further global disruptions in South East Asia.
Products dominated business model
– Even though UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 has some of the most successful models in the industry, this business model has made each new product launch extremely critical for continuous financial growth of the organization. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.
Aligning sales with marketing
– From the outside it seems that UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 needs to have more collaboration between its sales team and marketing team. Sales professionals in the industry have deep experience in developing customer relationships. Marketing department at UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 can leverage the sales team experience to cultivate customer relationships as UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 is planning to shift buying processes online.
Lack of clear differentiation of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 products
– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 has a very deliberative decision making approach. This approach has resulted in prudent decisions, but it has also resulted in missing opportunities in the industry over the last five years. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative at UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3, in the dynamic environment of industry it has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
No frontier risks strategy
– From the 10K / annual statement of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3, it seems that company is thinking out the frontier risks that can impact 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.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 is just above the 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.
High operating costs
– Compare to the competitors, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 has high operating costs in the industry. This can be harder to sustain given the new emerging competition from nimble players who are using technology to attract UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 lucrative customers.
Employees’ less understanding of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 strategy
– From the outside it seems that the employees of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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.
High bargaining power of channel partners in industry
– because of the regulatory requirements in United States, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 industry.
UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 Opportunities | External Strategic Factors
What are Opportunities in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The opportunities of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 are -
Increase in government spending
– As the United States and other governments are increasing social spending and infrastructure spending to build economies post Covid-19, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in sector.
Building a culture of innovation
– managers at UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 industry.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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.
Leveraging digital technologies
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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.
Harnessing reconfiguration of the global supply chains
– As the trade war between US and China heats up in the coming years, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
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. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 can explore opportunities that can attract volunteers and are consistent with its mission and vision.
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 to increase its market reach. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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.
Loyalty marketing
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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.
Reforming the budgeting process
- By establishing new metrics that will be used to evaluate both existing and potential projects UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 can not only reduce the costs of the project but also help it in integrating the projects with other processes within the organization.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 has spent a significant amount of money and effort to integrate analytics and machine learning into its operations in sector. This continuous investment in analytics has enabled UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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.
Finding new ways to collaborate
– Covid-19 has not only transformed business models of companies in industry, but it has also influenced the consumer preferences. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 can tie-up with other value chain partners to explore new opportunities regarding meeting customer demands and building a rewarding and engaging relationship.
Developing new processes and practices
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 can develop new processes and procedures in 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.
Threats UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 in the sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
Consumer confidence and its impact on UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 industry and other sectors.
Learning curve for new practices
– As the technology based on artificial intelligence and machine learning platform is getting complex, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 may face longer learning curve for training and development of existing employees. This can open space for more nimble competitors in the field of sector.
High dependence on third party suppliers
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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.
Regulatory challenges
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 industry regulations.
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. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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.
Trade war between China and United States
– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 in industry. The 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 international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 prominent markets.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 is facing in sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
Barriers of entry lowering
– As technology is more democratized, the barriers to entry to industry are lowering. It can presents UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the sector.
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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 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. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 needs to understand the core reasons impacting the industry. This will help it in building a better workplace.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 Template, Example
Not all factors mentioned under the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats quadrants in the SWOT Analysis are equal. Managers at UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 3 needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.