BUSINESS PRINCIPLES, TOOLS, AND TECHNIQUES APPLICATION.pptx

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1. BUSINESS PRINCIPLES, TOOLS, AND TECHNIQUES APPLICATION APPLIED ECONOMICS 11

2. Applying business principles, tools, and techniques in participating in various types of industries in the locality Some of the more common analysis tools and techniques include: SWOT Analysis is a simple and practical framework for identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that a company faces. It is essential to leverage strengths, minimize threats, and to take advantage of available opportunities. Conducting a SWOT analysis is useful for strategic planning and for determining the objectives of a company.

3. How to conduct the SWOT Analysis? Identify the Strengths of an internal and consumer perspective. Identify the Weaknesses of an internal and consumer perspective. Identify the Opportunity from an external perspective. Identify the Threats from an external perspective Establish the priorities form the SWOT

4. Develop a strategy to address issues in the SWOT, such as: How can we use our strengths to take advantage of the opportunities identified? How can we use these strengths to overcome the threats identified? What do we need to do to overcome the identified weaknesses to take advantage of the opportunities? How will we minimize our weaknesses to overcome the identified threats?

5. TOWS Matrix is a way of taking a SWOT Analysis further, to provide actionable links between the different parts of your business and environment.

6. TOWS Matrix - It's all about the four key factors, as follows: Strengths/opportunities (SO): how will you use your strengths to capitalize on your opportunities? Weaknesses/opportunities (WO): which weaknesses do you need to overcome to exploit your opportunities? How will you overcome these weaknesses? Strengths/threats (ST): how will you use your strengths to overcome external threats? Weaknesses/threats (WT): which weaknesses are especially vulnerable to threats and need attention?

7. PESTLE/PESTEL The acronym stands for Political, Economic, Social, Technology, Environment, and Legal PESTLE/ PESTEL reveals opportunities and threats better than SWOT, the direction of business change, projects that will fail beyond your control, and country, region, and market issues through helping you create an objective view. The following should be taken into consideration in the conduct of PESTLE Analysis

8. Political factors Is there any expected Elections on State and National Level and how it shifts government policies? Who are the upcoming contenders for power? What is their plan for Business policy and regulation? What is the current and impending legislative changes? What are the other political factors and when they might change?

9. Economic Factors What is the current disposable income of customer and how it can change it the upcoming years? Currently, the economy is stable or not. It is a growing economy, declining and a stagnating economy Whether the exchange rate is stable or not. What is the tendency of fluctuation? What are the prevailing criteria of credit availability, how the credit criteria affect the business? What the prevailing unemployment rate? Will it be easy to hire the desired staff required? You can consider many other factors according to the environment.

10. Social Factors Do you know about the overall population, there is a growth or contraction in the population you are operating? Know about social attitudes that might affect your business. Are there any noticeable socio-cultural changes in the environment? What is the level of education and health in the society you are operating in? Are there any changes in these external environment factors, and how it affects you? What are the religious beliefs and how it affects your business environment? What is the trend in overall society habits about saving, investments, and spending? Do you know any other social factors that might affect your business?

11. Technological Factors Are there any innovative technologies your business could use? If you access new technology, how it benefits you by redefining your product or cut costs, etc.? How changing technology affect your customer base? What technologies your competitor is using that positively affect their products and services? What other technological factors should you consider?

12. Porter's Five Forces This tool helps you understand where your business power lies in present competitiveness and future positioning strength. It forces you to analyze suppliers and customers' bargaining power, the threats to new entrants and substitutes, and competitive rivalry in your marketplace. Using this tool helps you understand the balance of power and to identify areas of potential profitability. According to Porter, this model should be used at the line of business level.

13. How do the 5 Forces work? Competitive rivalry The threat of substitute products Bargaining power of buyers The threat of new entrants Bargaining power of suppliers

14. Competitive rivalry These are things to consider: What's the level of competition in your company's sector? Who are your large, direct competitors? What advantages do they leverage over you? Who are your smaller, independent competitors? What do they do to stay competitive?

15. The threat of substitute products The following are the things to be considered: How easy is it to find an alternative to your products or services? What aspects of your products/services can your customers do manually? How do cheaper substitutes measure up against your company for ROI?

16. Bargaining power of buyers The following needs to be considered: How powerful are your buyers? How many are there? What different kinds of buyers do you interact with? Can the buyers get costs down? Do they have the power to dictate terms?

17. The threat of new entrants What's the threat of new businesses starting in this sector? How easy is it to start up in this business? What are the rules and regulations? What finance would a start-up need? Are there barriers to entry that give you greater power?

18. Bargaining power of suppliers How many suppliers are in the market? Are there many options (which can lower prices) or just a few (which can raise them)? How easy is it to switch, what's the cost? How would changing suppliers affect your products/services?