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Gamble, J. & Thompson, A. (2011) stressed the importance of companies conducting a SWOT analysis. They feel that it is important for a company to understand their strengths’, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. A good SWOT analysis can help a company stay on track with their stated goals. The next few paragraphs is my perception of what a SWOT analysis would look like for Countrywide.

Goodrich, Ryan. “SWOT Analysis: Examples, Templates & Definition.” Business News Daily. Tech Media Network, 2014. Web. 28 February 2014.

This paper is to decide whether to invest in a company. The company I have chosen is Verizon Communication. I will conduct a SWOT analysis define the elements of the SWOT analysis, and identify the most relevant parts of the analysis. I will then identify Verizon’s stakeholders, both internal and external and describe the stakeholders’ needs and wants. Finally I will discuss how Verizon is fulfilling the stakeholders’ wants and needs.

2. Given the industries in which the Cisco competes, what are the implications for the major types of buying situations?

"You couldn’t go anywhere without hearing that if you weren’t trying to be like Cisco, you were falling behind, their systems are so brilliant. I’m sorry. It’s clear it’s not the case." What Cisco’s systems didn’t do was model what would happen if one critical assumption?growth?was removed from both their forecasts and their mind-sets. If Cisco had run even modestly declining demand models, Chambers and Carter might have seen the consequences of betting on more inventory. But Cisco had enjoyed more than 40 straight quarters of stout growth. In its immediate past were three quarters of extreme growth as high as 66 percent. The numbers the virtual close presented to the eye of the beholders?the Cisco executives?painted a picture of the present as lovely and pleasant as a Monet landscape. According to many observers, Cisco’s fundamental blunder was to rely on that pretty picture to assume the future would be equally pretty. The Inventory Buildup CISCO’S HISTORY is like Mount Saint Helens. Its explosive success blew the side off the old economy rules of slow, steady growth. Cisco rose above a crop of small networking companies through two strategies: outsourced manufacturing and growth through acquisition. From the time it went public 11

A few strengths and opportunities that I obtained from the SWOT Analysis were profitability, multiple channels selling, growth of web-based

SWOT stands for the internal strengths, weakness and the external opportunities and threats. A swot analysis summarises the key issues from the industry and the strategic capability of an organisation that are most likely to impact on strategy development.

The following SWOT analysis captures the key strengths and weaknesses within the company, and describes the opportunities and threats facing the company.

The report provides you an in-depth strategic SWOT analysis of the companies businesses and operations. The profile has been compiled by Global Data to bring to you a clear and an unbiased view of the companies key strengths and weaknesses and the potential opportunities and threats. The profile helps you formulate strategies that augment your business by enabling you to understand your partners, customers and competitors better.

The SWOT Analysis examines Company G’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. SWOT is important in

Impressively, Cisco has still outperformed its two main competitors, Alcatel-Lucent and Juniper Networks, Inc., in the Networking and Communication Devices industry (“Competitors,” n.d.). Cisco generates the most revenue of its competitors, but spends the least on R&D as a percentage of revenue (“Competitors,” n.d.).Additionally, Cisco has the highest operating profit margin amongst its competitors. Operating profit margin, “a measure of the company’s operating effectiveness,” can be calculated using figures form the income statement (Keown, Martin, & Petty, 2011, p. 94). Cisco’s operating profit margin is 22.9% which means that for every dollar of sales, Cisco earned 22.9 cents in operating income. This number compared to the 18.8% operating profit margin of Juniper shows that Cisco’s management is better than Juniper’s at managing operations (Keown, Martin, & Petty, 2011). Cisco’s financial performance indicates that they are an industry leader.

The SWOT analysis is a tool used for strategic planning. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunity and threats. It is an internal analysis of a firm’s strengths and weaknesses and an external analysis of threats and opportunities. A firm’s strengths and weaknesses in the organization are what will determine if a condition in the external environment is a threat or opportunity. In this paper, I will write a SWOT analysis on Cincinnati Bell Telephone.

SWOT Analysis is a useful technique for a company to understand its Strengths and Weaknesses, and for identifying both the Opportunities available to the company and the Threats it faces. The reason SWOT is particularly powerful is that, with a little thought, it can uncover opportunities that can be easily exploited and by understanding the weaknesses one can eliminate threats to the firm. More than this, by looking at the competitors of the firms using the SWOT framework, one can start devising strategies that could help the firm distinguish themselves and successfully compete in the market.

With regards to their ‘Buy’ aspect of their innovation strategy, Cisco is constantly looking to acquire technologies to improve their current product range. Cisco has acquired over 160 companies up to the end of 2012, and will continue to actively seek out acquisition opportunities to increase their product range (Cisco, 2012). It may be argued that innovation by acquisition is not innovation; however the innovation comes with the integration of these technologies into their existing product ranges and taking new products to market. Cisco also purchase technologies that have yet to be brought to the market, so are more inventions than innovations, and take calculated risks in doing so.

Ironically, in each organization they have their own strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threaten as included in Santa Fe Relocation Services.