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…
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organization costs. One of the organizations the article concentrates on is AFLAC Insurance otherwise called the American Family Life Insurance Company of Columbus. In the article, the reward system that is used inside AFLAC is discussed thoroughly. The article shares how the organization has consolidated a reward system that is centered on addressing representative needs while additionally staying inside the companies spending plan (Reed, 2009).
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As the consultant, consider the firm’s competitive external environment and how best to work within the preferred industry (Boso, Cadogan, Micevski, & Kadić-Maglajlić, 2013).
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World Bank Group - the group that consists of five organizations created in different times and functionally united,organizationally and geographically, the purpose of which is providing financial and technical assistance to developing countries.
Porter argues that no firm can provide value in all the ways that people wish value to be delivered, so they should select one strategy; cost leadership, differentiation or focus. (Robbins & Barnwell, 2002)