Wal-Mart SWOT Analysis
Strengths
? Powerful Brand and strong reputation?with consumers including a reputation for value, convenience offering a wide range of products and services. For example, the company is well-known for its innovation, entailing various industrial developments.
? Core capabilities?successful key business processes. For example, cutting edge merchandising strategies (bundling of goods and services).
? Growth capacity?robust growth and expansion globally (for example its mergers and acquisition capabilities).
? Flat organizational structure.
? Excellent financial management strategy.
? Technological Advantage?encompassing best practices involving its use of information technology to support its international logistics system. For example, RFID and EDI information processing systems. The company can see real?time how individual products are performing country-wide, store-by-store. In addition, its IT methodology maintains an efficient procurement process (Eisinger 2006).
? Leadership and Management?Management is the key to Wal-Mart's business and the company has spawned a wide range of best practices across all managerial functions.
Weaknesses
? A huge span of control?requiring balancing of strategies entailing profits as well as, social and ethical responsibilities, despite its IT advantages. The company prides itself in capitalizing on every cost saving opportunity and being aware and taking notice of intricate details of the business. Rapid growth may hinder the company's competitive advan ...