A SWOT and PESTLE analysis of Shell Nigeria and its business environment reveals several challenging trends and issues that the company needs to address to become a leaner and more efficient organization that can compete against rivals. The report revealed several challenges among which include; fluctuations in the prices of crude oil, chemicals, and natural gas, and rising concerns about climate change. The rising concerns about climate change and its effects have greatly led to a fall in the demand for its products and services thus offering potentially lower prices for fossil fuels. Climate change has also impacted the physical impact of the company’s assets and supply chains which has led to regulatory measures, resulting in delays of projects or even resulting in them being canceled, possible litigation, and restrictions on the operations among so many others.
Several of the challenges, which are revealed by extensive SWOT and PESTLE Analysis of Shell Nigeria, show the company’s key threats, and risk challenges including major political, economic, social, technological factors, and regulatory trends impacting the company. Furthermore, the report analyzed the opportunities that are on the horizon for Shell Nigeria.
A Shell Nigeria SWOT and VRIO analysis answers key questions such as; What are the threats to Shell Oil Company? what are the strengths and weaknesses of Shell Nigeria?
In conclusion, the report offers recommendations to help Shell Nigeria turn around its sales whilst sustaining growth and expansion in growth markets despite rising constraints and challenges.
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This report presented an analysis of Crocs Inc. by looking at its competitors, mission statement, weaknesses, and marketing strategy among others.
Founded in 2007, Crocs Inc. is one of the leading footwear manufacturers in the world. The company operates in the manufacturing, designing, developing, marketing, distributing, and sale of casual lifestyle footwear and accessories for children, men, and women. Crocs offers a diversified portfolio of all-season products.
Crocs Company Analysis as well as its business environment reveals a number of challenges that the company has to address so as to be more efficient and competent in the business world. Some of the recent macro and micro challenges faced by the company include; significant competition from its rivals like NIKE, Inc., Adidas AG, Deckers Outdoor Corporation, Skechers USA, Inc., Steven Madden, Ltd., Wolverine World Wide, Inc., and VF Corporation, the company has also failed to protect its trademarks, the war between Russia and Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic; supply chain disruptions, which could interrupt product manufacturing and global logistics and increase product costs, changes in global economic conditions, which may adversely affect consumer spending and the financial health of our customers
The challenges revealed by this strategic analysis show the key threats and risks that embed the major political factors affecting Crocs Inc. as well as key economic, social, technological, and regulatory trends. Furthermore, it reveals the opportunities that are on the horizon for Crocs Inc. among many other
A Crocs Inc. strategic analysis answers key questions such as; What are the strengths of Crocs Company? What are some weaknesses of Crocs? What is the marketing strategy for Crocs?
The report analyzed the external and internal environment of the childcare service market. Using the PESTLE analysis, the report examines challenges that are likely to impact a startup in the childcare industry and opportunities that the startup can leverage to launch a successful business in the growing market. SWOT analysis was used to study the startup’s strengths and weaknesses and how the company would use its strengths to mitigate external threats and its inner weaknesses in order to leverage external opportunities. Porters five forces analysis was used to examine the competitive environment and assess how it would impact the startup’s revenue and profitability.
Over the past 30 years, the cost of college has had a steady growth, increasing from $4,160 to $10,740 and from $19,360 to $38,070 at private non-profit institutions at public 4-year colleges. In recent years, the rise in costs has pushed up demand for student loans alongside other forms of financial aid. Today, the national average of federal student loan borrowers is $35,210. According to national statistics, more than half of all students leave school with debt. Although student debt loan tends to be associated with young adults (24 years and younger), average debt increases by age group with those 62 and older having the highest balance. As of 2022, the federal student loan portfolio totals more than $1.6 trillion, owed by about 43 million borrowers.
Debt Educators is a USA student loan debt relief company helping students, graduates, and parents in student loan debt crisis through student loan consolidation, helping them to pick out the appropriate program depending on their financial status, and assisting them through the debt approval process. Using PESTLE analysis, the report will discuss the business environment in which Debt Educators operates and how it is likely to be impacted by the different shifts and trends. The PESTLE analysis will help us to identify key drivers of change in the business environment and how they might affect the growth and profitability of debt educators in the long run.
Workforce diversity refers to the variety of differences among people in an organization, such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, education, and skills. Diversity can have both positive and negative effects on organizational performance, depending on how it is managed and valued. Workforce diversity is a complex and dynamic phenomenon that requires careful assessment and management by HRM.
Diversity in the workplace brings about a modification of business management. According to Brian, O’Leary, & Washington, 2006, p.297, diversity is an important aspect of an organization as it is recognized as a significant factor whilst enhancing the organization of a business. Human Resource Management covers the analysis of cultural diversity and utilizes these diverse cultures to come up with new tactics. Currently, organizations are facing challenges in how to handle diversity in a proper way.
This essay is going to examine the workforce diversity at Motorola Mobility.
This company is a multinational company that attributes significant importance to the concept of human resource management. Human resource management is affected mainly by diversity management. There are a number of diversity procedures where some are created to avoid litigation whereas others to focus on increasing awareness of the sensitivity of discriminatory and prejudicial behaviors. Diversity management includes human resource organization, recruitment, training, employee relations, compensation and benefits, and career planning.
This SWOT analysis of TikTok scrutinizes the external and internal environment in the company functions. The report evaluates the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of TikTok and the way in which it has leveraged its inner strengths and external opportunities to grow in an unpredictable and evolving business environment.
Today, chronic diseases are among the most prevalent and costly health conditions in the United States and the world over. According to research, at least 45% (133 million) of all Americans suffer from at least one chronicle disease and this number continues to grow (Raghupathi and Raghupathie 2018).
It is thus no surprise that the biologics industry is growing very fast, surpassing the growth of small molecule tablets. According to research, the global biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) market, valued at $9.93 billion in 2020, is expected to reach $18.90 billion by 2026, recording a CAGR of 11.2% between 2021 and 2026.
Despite the popularity of small-molecule drugs globally, large molecules, such as biologics, biosimilars as well as cell and gene therapies, are forecast to witness the strongest growth between 2021 and 2026. The large molecule market which includes originator biologics, biologics, cells, and gene therapies will reach $133 billion by 2023. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and their counterparts (biosimilars) have in recent years attracted a notable amount of investment in the biologics industry mainly due to their proven success in treating various chronic diseases, including cancer.
Virion Therapeutics LLC is one of the companies that have continued to gain recognition in the field of therapeutics. Today, the company is involved in the production of VRON-0200, a Therapeutic Vaccine for Chronic Hepatitis B Virus. In the USA, at least 862,000 people were chronically infected with HBV in 2016.
With this and many other chronic diseases on the rise globally, there are many opportunities for Virion because of its ability to produce treatments for chronic viral infections utilizing the first genetically encoded checkpoint inhibitor given via vaccination.
The report analyzes the major strategic issues and challenges facing Virion Therapeutics including high costs, long approval times, uncertainty of long-term demand, and supply chain issues likely to impact the growth of Virion Therapeutics despite the growing demand for biologics.
Ryanair is the Europe’s largest airline, the largest low cost carrier and also one of the world’s largest airlines globally in terms of passenger numbers carried. It currently operates in a very competitive and challenging environment, worsened by the COVID 19 impact on travel in general. Despite the loosening of travel restrictions and lockdowns after a successful rollout of vaccines, the industry is not likely to get back to its normal levels any time soon as new variants keep coming up and the fear of travel and infection impacts consumer decisions making. Moreso, consumer confidence remains subdued by growing unemployment, looming recessionary fears and the continued uncertainty surrounding COVID 19.
Further, it should be noted that the airline industry was already overcrowded pre-covid 19 with major players competing on price, a fact that has pushed profitability to their lowest levels. This is a situation that is likely to worsen in the near term as supply exceeds demand, in fact, smaller airlines are likely to continue collapsing while major players consolidate to gain market shares.
Using SWOT analysis, this report examines why even though covid-19 decimated travel and poor customer service remains a weakness for Ryanair, the lasting legacy of covid-19 on travel habits, in line with a continued shift to staycations will play a key role in shaping the domestic travel battlefield, benefiting Ryanair and other low cost airlines.
Nike (NKE) is the largest seller of athletic footwear and apparel in the world, ahead of Adidas, Puma and Under Armour. Its business is focused on product design and development, marketing and sales. Key product categories are running, basketball, the Jordan Brand, soccer, training and sportswear. Nike has more than 1,150 retail stores in the United States and internationally, and employs approximately 76,700 workers worldwide. In 2021, Nike's global revenue amounted to about $44.54billion U.S. dollars., up from $37.4 billion in 2020 (Statista 2020c).
In the following strategic analysis report, the author undertook a pestle analysis and Swot analysis of Nike, assessing how numerous external macro factors such as a ban of China cotton products, a post covid shrinking economy globally, low consumer confidence, advancements in wearable technology and changing consumer habits have impacted Nike. PESTLE is used to identify key drivers of change and how they have affected Nike and competitors. This is followed by a Nike SWOT analysis assessing how Nike can use its internal strengths to take advantage of external opportunities, while mitigating internal weaknesses and arising threats.
Vodafone is UK’s third biggest telecommunication company commanding 21% of the market share, serving approximately 19.5million customers in the UK. Currently, all is not well with the company, the company has been struggling majorly due to the UK’s challenging telecommunication sector and growing competition. As of 2017, the company’s revenue declined from £8.4 billion to £6.9billion the biggest decline since 2015.
Some of Vodafone’s biggest challenges include changing political and legal environment of UK in recent years. Vodafone is also faced by the challenge of growing competition from OTT operators and other independent providers which is affecting the company’s revenue.
However, the company has been able to maintain its profitability through its innovations especially IoT which experienced a 7.2% increase in 2018 to £747 million due to the growing number of IoT sim connections. Despite the fall in revenue, the company’s profits grew from £3.7billion to £5.1 billion.
Using PESTLE, the author will examine threats from economic, social, technological, legal and environmental issues while identifying the available growth opportunities in the market. We will then use SWOT analysis to examine its key strengths and weaknesses and how it can use these strengths to mitigate its weaknesses and threats.
