SWOT Analysis Of Deloitte

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Phong Le Prof. Cipoletti BUS 482 6 December 2014 SWOT Analysis This report will provide a detailed analysis of Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu. This analysis will help identify the company’s current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. This will be helpful in terms of understanding how well the organization is operating, and what needs to be done in terms of making the company stronger. In the conclusion of this analysis, I will develop improvement proposals, and how they will impact structure, conduct, and performance. The following are strengths that Deloitte currently have. Deloitte uses a value-driven approach toward its service offerings. As technology continues to advance such as cloud computing, the company will continue to …show more content…

Deloitte uses a global association structure meaning that it is an association of independent country-level firms. While this structure is necessary for the audit business, it poses a challenge for business consulting. Partners of the country firms must be persuaded to take on new offerings or other innovations and they tend to be conservative toward investment and innovation decisions. This can lead to slowing down decision making and is a source of friction in cross-border deals. While Deloitte has been able to manage around this issue effectively, there is a cost to that. Another weakness Deloitte has is that its global delivery capability is relatively immature. Deloitte have gradually built up global delivery resources in several lower-cost locations worldwide however the maturity of the processes and information infrastructure supporting delivery engagements is not at the level of major IT-based competitors. Deloitte using the global association structure also makes global collaboration more difficult which hinders its global delivery capability …show more content…

Examples of such companies would be IBM and Capgemini. Competing companies that combined a business emphasis with a strong IT background poses a serious threat to Deloitte’s business. In this day and age there are no business decisions that can be made without input from IT, therefore companies with an IT background are not at a disadvantage as they once would have been. Software brands can also be seen as a threat to Deloitte. Software brands, especially SAP and Oracle, have a high degree of recognition and intent to use among buyers of consulting services. Even though the consulting offerings of these vendors are focused around their own products, there have been shown a willingness among buyers to consider them for business-oriented services. Even if these specific vendors do not become more active in this area, this buyer perception opens the door to new types of competitors, entrants, and substitutes for business

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