SWOT of Popular Holdings Berhard
STRENGHTS
The strength for Popular holdings Berhad are the core values of the company. The core values of the company are People, Objectivity, Product, Unity, Leadership, Action, and Reward & Recognition. According to the first core value of Popular , people are their customers, they are their greatest asset. Second core value states that Popular approach their work positively through pro-active participation and open communication. The third core value says that Popular provides their customers quality product at a reasonable price and the fourth value says that Popular respect their people and promote teamwork. Leading with commitment, integrity and competence is the fifth core value of Popular. The six value will be strive for excellence, fostering a quality culture in our company. Lastly Popular encourage, recognize and reward their people for exemplary performance. The second strength is a strong board of directors with Mr Chou Cheng Ngok as the Chairman& Managing Director. He has a master degree in Political Science from US. Popular have Ms Lim Lee Ngoh as their Executive Director & CEO of Malaysia operations. Ms. Lim holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting, Finance and Business) Degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia. More over, Popular’s two Independent Directors are also very capable of dong their job.
The strengths of the new product are the modern technology that is small in size and convenient to be carried around. With this Pop Card, students don’t have to carry heavy books all round when they need to study. They can simply slot a small little card in their laptops and read all the content faster.
Besides that, this pop card is also rewritable. This not only saves the cost of buying the book but it’s also an environmental friendly way of saving trees. The students can come back to any Popular outlets for the service of the product. There they are allowed to request for the extra subjects they would like to have in their Pop Card. Other than that, the bigger storage capacity allows the users to store much more information in just a single piece of card. The users can find the content of a few books in a single memory card.
WEAKNESSES
The weakness of Popular Holdings Berhad will be it’s strategic vision. The strategic vision of Popular is mostly limited in the stores in Asia. Popular focus more on the Asian market rather than international market.
Since their inception, they have developed a distinctive corporate culture with a mission to create components for people to live long, healthy and fun lives. They promote a set of core values in their business, which include developing the highest quality products, operating with integrity, leading a healthy balanced life and instilling in their employees a sense of self responsibility and the value of goal setting. These core values allow them to attract passionate and motivated employees who are driven to succeed and share the vision of "elevating the world from mediocrity to greatness.
The company’s core values constitute - Creativity (new ways of doing things), Honesty (guided by high moral standards), Respect (accept and abide by the law, social standards and principles of nature), Solidarity (Friendly work environment), Laboriousness (Labor is the powerful force for transformation), Responsibility (Accept consequences of our actions).
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