UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 (MLPB) SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / MBA Resources
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Introduction to SWOT Analysis
SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix for UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 (United States)
Based on various researches at Oak Spring University , UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 is operating in a macro-environment that has been destablized by – competitive advantages are harder to sustain because of technology dispersion, increasing government debt because of Covid-19 spendings, there is backlash against globalization, wage bills are increasing, banking and financial system is disrupted by Bitcoin and other crypto currencies, increasing household debt because of falling income levels, increasing transportation and logistics costs,
technology disruption, customer relationship management is fast transforming because of increasing concerns over data privacy, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University, we believe that UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6, 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 6 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 6 can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6
2. Improving business portfolio management of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6
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 6
Strengths of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 are -
Diverse revenue streams
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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.
Organizational Resilience of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6
– The covid-19 pandemic has put organizational resilience at the centre of everthing UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 does. Organizational resilience comprises - Financial Resilience, Operational Resilience, Technological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Business Model Resilience, and Reputation Resilience.
Digital Transformation in industry
- digital transformation varies from industry to industry. For UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 digital transformation journey comprises differing goals based on market maturity, customer technology acceptance, and organizational culture. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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 6 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 6 is open place that encourages instructiveness, ideation, open minded discussions, and creativity. Employees and leaders at UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 emphasize – knowledge, initiative, and innovation.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in industry
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the industry. The sustainable margins have also helped UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
Successful track record of launching new products
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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.
High switching costs
– The high switching costs that UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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.
Cross disciplinary teams
– Horizontal connected teams at the UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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.
Highly skilled collaborators
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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 6 have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 in industry is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 has innovation driven culture where significant part of the revenues are spent on the research and development activities. This has resulted in – UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 staying ahead in the industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
Weaknesses of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 are -
Slow to strategic competitive environment developments
– As UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 is one of the leading players in the industry, it takes time to assess the upcoming competitions. This has led to missing out on atleast 2-3 big opportunities in the industry in last five years.
Skills based hiring in industry
– The stress on hiring functional specialists at UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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.
High dependence on UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 ‘s star products
– The top 2 products and services of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 still accounts for major business revenue. This dependence on star products in industry has resulted into insufficient focus on developing new products, even though UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 has relatively successful track record of launching new products.
High bargaining power of channel partners in industry
– because of the regulatory requirements in United States, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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.
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 6 supply chain. Even after few cautionary changes, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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 6 vulnerable to further global disruptions in South East Asia.
Lack of clear differentiation of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 products
– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.
Low market penetration in new markets
– Outside its home market of United States, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 needs to spend more promotional, marketing, and advertising efforts to penetrate international markets.
High operating costs
– Compare to the competitors, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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 6 lucrative customers.
Employees’ less understanding of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 strategy
– From the outside it seems that the employees of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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.
Interest costs
– Compare to the competition, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 has borrowed money from the capital market at higher rates. It needs to restructure the interest payment and costs so that it can compete better and improve profitability.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative at UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6, in the dynamic environment of industry it has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 Opportunities | External Strategic Factors
What are Opportunities in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The opportunities of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 are -
Buying journey improvements
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 can improve the customer journey of consumers in the 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.
Manufacturing automation
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 can use the latest technology developments to improve its manufacturing and designing process in 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.
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 6 can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in sector.
Using analytics as competitive advantage
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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 6 to build a competitive advantage using analytics. The analytics driven competitive advantage can help UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 to build faster Go To Market strategies, better consumer insights, developing relevant product features, and building a highly efficient supply chain.
Better consumer reach
– The expansion of the 5G network will help UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 to increase its market reach. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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.
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 6 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 6 to buy more products closer to the markets, and it can leverage its size and influence to get better deal from the local markets.
Lowering marketing communication costs
– 5G expansion will open new opportunities for UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 in the field of marketing communication. It will bring down the cost of doing business, provide technology platform to build new products in the industry, and it will provide faster access to the consumers.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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.
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 6 can tie-up with other value chain partners to explore new opportunities regarding meeting customer demands and building a rewarding and engaging relationship.
Loyalty marketing
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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.
Changes in consumer behavior post Covid-19
– consumer behavior has changed in the industry because of Covid-19 restrictions. Some of this behavior will stay once things get back to normal. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 can further use this consumer data to build better customer loyalty, provide better products and service collection, and improve the value proposition in inflationary times.
Reconfiguring business model
– The expansion of digital payment system, the bringing down of international transactions costs using Bitcoin and other blockchain based currencies, etc can help UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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.
Redefining models of collaboration and team work
– As explained in the weaknesses section, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 is facing challenges because of the dominance of functional experts in the organization. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 can utilize new technology in the field of industry to build more coordinated teams and streamline operations and communications using tools such as CAD, Zoom, etc.
Threats UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 are -
High dependence on third party suppliers
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 high dependence on third party suppliers can disrupt its processes and delivery mechanism. For example -the current troubles of car makers because of chip shortage is because the chip companies started producing chips for electronic companies rather than car manufacturers.
Consumer confidence and its impact on UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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.
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 6.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 is facing in sector. It can lead to higher research and development costs, higher marketing expenses, lower customer loyalty, etc.
Increasing wage structure of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6
– 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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6.
Stagnating economy with rate increase
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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.
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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 business can come under increasing regulations regarding data privacy, data security, etc.
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.
Technology acceleration in Forth Industrial Revolution
– UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 needs to keep up with the evolution of technology in the 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.
Easy access to finance
– Easy access to finance in industry will also reduce the barriers to entry in the industry, thus putting downward pressure on the prices because of increasing competition. UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.
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 6 with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the 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 UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 in the sector and impact the bottomline of the organization.
Increasing international competition and downward pressure on margins
– Apart from technology driven competitive advantage dilution, UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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 6 prominent markets.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of UBS AG London Branch ELKS 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
