Global Real Estate Dividend Growers (GRL) SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / MBA Resources
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Introduction to SWOT Analysis
SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix for Global Real Estate Dividend Growers (Canada)
Based on various researches at Oak Spring University , Global Real Estate Dividend Growers is operating in a macro-environment that has been destablized by – geopolitical disruptions, increasing commodity prices, technology disruption, banking and financial system is disrupted by Bitcoin and other crypto currencies, increasing household debt because of falling income levels, increasing inequality as vast percentage of new income is going to the top 1%, digital marketing is dominated by two big players Facebook and Google,
supply chains are disrupted by pandemic , increasing energy prices, etc
Introduction to SWOT Analysis of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers
SWOT stands for an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats . At Oak Spring University, we believe that Global Real Estate Dividend Growers can use SWOT analysis as a strategic management tool to assess the current internal strengths and weaknesses of the Global Real Estate Dividend Growers, and to figure out the opportunities and threats in the macro environment – technological, environmental, political, economic, social, demographic, etc in which Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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 Global Real Estate Dividend Growers can be done for the following purposes –
1. Strategic planning of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers
2. Improving business portfolio management of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers
3. Assessing feasibility of the new initiative in Canada
4. Making a sector specific business decision
5. Set goals for the organization
6. Organizational restructuring of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers
Strengths of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Strengths in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The strengths of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers are -
High brand equity
– Global Real Estate Dividend Growers has strong brand awareness and brand recognition among both - the exiting customers and potential new customers. Strong brand equity has enabled Global Real Estate Dividend Growers to keep acquiring new customers and building profitable relationship with both the new and loyal customers.
Analytics focus
– Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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 Canada 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.
Superior customer experience
– The customer experience strategy of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers in industry is based on four key concepts – personalization, simplification of complex needs, prompt response, and continuous engagement.
Diverse revenue streams
– Global Real Estate Dividend Growers is present in almost all the verticals within the industry. This has provided Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Operational resilience
– The operational resilience strategy of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Effective Research and Development (R&D)
– Global Real Estate Dividend Growers has innovation driven culture where significant part of the revenues are spent on the research and development activities. This has resulted in – Global Real Estate Dividend Growers staying ahead in the industry in terms of – new product launches, superior customer experience, highly competitive pricing strategies, and great returns to the shareholders.
Highly skilled collaborators
– Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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 Global Real Estate Dividend Growers have helped the firm to develop new products and bring them quickly to the marketplace.
Ability to recruit top talent
– Global Real Estate Dividend Growers is one of the leading players in the industry in Canada. It is in a position to attract the best talent available in Canada. The firm has a robust talent identification program that helps in identifying the brightest.
Training and development
– Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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 Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Successful track record of launching new products
– Global Real Estate Dividend Growers has launched numerous new products in last few years, keeping in mind evolving customer preferences and competitive pressures. Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Sustainable margins compare to other players in industry
– Global Real Estate Dividend Growers has clearly differentiated products in the market place. This has enabled Global Real Estate Dividend Growers to fetch slight price premium compare to the competitors in the industry. The sustainable margins have also helped Global Real Estate Dividend Growers to invest into research and development (R&D) and innovation.
Weaknesses of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers | Internal Strategic Factors
What are Weaknesses in SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The weaknesses of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers are -
Employees’ less understanding of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers strategy
– From the outside it seems that the employees of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Ability to respond to the competition
– As the decision making is very deliberative at Global Real Estate Dividend Growers, in the dynamic environment of industry it has struggled to respond to the nimble upstart competition. Global Real Estate Dividend Growers has reasonably good record with similar level competitors but it has struggled with new entrants taking away niches of its business.
Interest costs
– Compare to the competition, Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Capital Spending Reduction
– Even during the low interest decade, Global Real Estate Dividend Growers has not been able to do capital spending to the tune of the competition. This has resulted into fewer innovations and company facing stiff competition from both existing competitors and new entrants who are disrupting the industry using digital technology.
Skills based hiring in industry
– The stress on hiring functional specialists at Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Compensation and incentives
– The revenue per employee of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Products dominated business model
– Even though Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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. Global Real Estate Dividend Growers should strive to include more intangible value offerings along with its core products and services.
Lack of clear differentiation of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers products
– To increase the profitability and margins on the products, Global Real Estate Dividend Growers needs to provide more differentiated products than what it is currently offering in the marketplace.
High dependence on Global Real Estate Dividend Growers ‘s star products
– The top 2 products and services of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers still accounts for major business revenue. This dependence on star products in industry has resulted into insufficient focus on developing new products, even though Global Real Estate Dividend Growers has relatively successful track record of launching new products.
High operating costs
– Compare to the competitors, Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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 Global Real Estate Dividend Growers lucrative customers.
High bargaining power of channel partners in industry
– because of the regulatory requirements in Canada, Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Global Real Estate Dividend Growers Opportunities | External Strategic Factors
What are Opportunities in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The opportunities of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers are -
Use of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies for transactions in industry
– The popularity of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies as asset class and medium of transaction has opened new opportunities for Global Real Estate Dividend Growers in the industry. Now Global Real Estate Dividend Growers can target international markets with far fewer capital restrictions requirements than the existing system.
Identify volunteer opportunities
– Covid-19 has impacted working population in two ways – it has led to people soul searching about their professional choices, resulting in mass resignation. Secondly it has encouraged people to do things that they are passionate about. This has opened opportunities for businesses to build volunteer oriented socially driven projects. Global Real Estate Dividend Growers can explore opportunities that can attract volunteers and are consistent with its mission and vision.
Low interest rates
– Even though inflation is raising its head in most developed economies, Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Increase in government spending
– As the United States and other governments are increasing social spending and infrastructure spending to build economies post Covid-19, Global Real Estate Dividend Growers can use these opportunities to build new business models that can help the communities that Global Real Estate Dividend Growers operates in. Secondly it can use opportunities from government spending in sector.
Building a culture of innovation
– managers at Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Redefining models of collaboration and team work
– As explained in the weaknesses section, Global Real Estate Dividend Growers is facing challenges because of the dominance of functional experts in the organization. Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
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. Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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. Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Lowering marketing communication costs
– 5G expansion will open new opportunities for Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Loyalty marketing
– Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Remote work and new talent hiring opportunities
– The widespread usage of remote working technologies during Covid-19 has opened opportunities for Global Real Estate Dividend Growers to expand its talent hiring zone. According to McKinsey Global Institute, 20% of the high end workforce in fields such as finance, information technology, can continously work from remote local post Covid-19. This presents a really great opportunity for Global Real Estate Dividend Growers to hire the very best people irrespective of their geographical location.
Learning at scale
– Online learning technologies has now opened space for Global Real Estate Dividend Growers to conduct training and development for its employees across the world. This will result in not only reducing the cost of training but also help employees in different part of the world to integrate with the headquarter work culture, ethos, and standards.
Reconfiguring business model
– The expansion of digital payment system, the bringing down of international transactions costs using Bitcoin and other blockchain based currencies, etc can help Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Creating value in data economy
– The success of analytics program of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers has opened avenues for new revenue streams for the organization in industry. This can help Global Real Estate Dividend Growers to build a more holistic ecosystem for Global Real Estate Dividend Growers products in the industry by providing – data insight services, data privacy related products, data based consulting services, etc.
Threats Global Real Estate Dividend Growers External Strategic Factors
What are Threats in the SWOT Analysis / TOWS Matrix / Weighted SWOT Analysis
The threats of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers are -
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 Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
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
– Global Real Estate Dividend Growers has witnessed rapid integration of technology during Covid-19 in the industry. As one of the leading players in the industry, Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
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 Global Real Estate Dividend Growers.
Environmental challenges
– Global Real Estate Dividend Growers needs to have a robust strategy against the disruptions arising from climate change and energy requirements. EU has identified it as key priority area and spending 30% of its 880 billion Euros European post Covid-19 recovery funds on green technology. Global Real Estate Dividend Growers can take advantage of this fund but it will also bring new competitors in the industry.
Shortening product life cycle
– it is one of the major threat that Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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 Global Real Estate Dividend Growers with greater competitive threats in the near to medium future. Secondly it will also put downward pressure on pricing throughout the sector.
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. Global Real Estate Dividend Growers can utilize it by borrowing at lower rates and invest it into research and development, capital expenditure to fortify its core competitive advantage.
Learning curve for new practices
– As the technology based on artificial intelligence and machine learning platform is getting complex, Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Consumer confidence and its impact on Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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.
Trade war between China and United States
– The trade war between two of the biggest economies can hugely impact the opportunities for Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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 wage structure of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers
– 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 Global Real Estate Dividend Growers.
Weighted SWOT Analysis of Global Real Estate Dividend Growers Template, Example
Not all factors mentioned under the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats quadrants in the SWOT Analysis are equal. Managers at Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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 Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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 Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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 Global Real Estate Dividend Growers 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 Global Real Estate Dividend Growers needs to make to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
