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.
The Johnson & Johnson Corporation have withstood various problems that would have crippled other firms which can only be accounted with the cohesiveness of the corporation members and the internal structure of the corporation. Despite the corporation’s problems over the years their statement of values is an integral part of their corporation culture and how the firm continues to conduct business. “For us, the credo is our expression of managing the multiple bottom lines of products, people, planet and profits” Larsen (as cited by Hartman et al., 2014, p. 165).
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).
SWOT analysis is a necessary tool for business that allows corporations to analyze where their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats lie. The SWOT tool contains paramount information about the industry and helps the executives of the business make decisions that are necessary for the business’s survival and success.
Customers will be able to experience Apple’s exclusive technology and software that is unsurpassed by the rest. By collaborating with some of the top learning organizations in the world has enabled us to fill this device with content that is fortified by the Apple brand which is reliable, innovative, and resilient. Individuals as well as educational institutions will benefit from an exceptional learning device which will offer access to programs that lead to a wealth of endless learning and growth
In the history of business study, The Competing Values Framework (CVF) has been thought of as one of the most influential models. According to Cameron (n.d.), he points out that several business school and leading organization have been studied and tested this theory for more than 25 years. He also claims that the CVF is the most accuracy model now because it can predict the organization future in term of success better than other models. In general, it can be use to identify the fundamental of organization from the top to bottom, for instance leadership, human resource management, management strategy and organization culture. As a results, the framework helps instruct the way to get improvement by having a comprehension values that occur commonly in organization. The model is emerged from the question “What are the main criteria for determining if an organization is effective? What key factors define organizational effectiveness? When people judge an organization to be effective, what indicators do they have in mind”
They are: Respect, Integrity, Innovation, Collaboration, Excellence and Trust. All the values work towards the company vision to “Create the Best Places”. Along with the company values, Lendlease also has 5 Pillars of Value. They are: Financial, Health and Safety, Our Customers, Our People and Sustainability. With the financial pillar, Lendlease is able to continue to expand their pipeline and deliver quality earnings to its employees. Health and Safety is a main focus of the company, so they work to make sure that all employees have access to the right tools to keep up their mental health and wellbeing. Customers are an important part of the company and their profit so Lendlease works hard to make sure that each interaction with the company is a good and memorable one, to keep them coming back. The people that work for Lendlease are the best advocates for the company and are the main interaction that consumers have with the company. Finally, the last pillar, sustainability, with the changing world, Lendlease is driven to create places for people that keep the idea of the environment in mind (Lendlease,
According to Jack Tessier, in his article “Student Impressions of Academic Cell Phone Use in the Classroom”, said that, “Students felt that cell phone use helped their learning, was not a distraction, helped them enjoy the class, improved their attendance a little, and promoted their success” (Figure 1b). This means with the cell phone, people can see the difference in education between the past and the present day. For example, if ten years ago students had to bring books when they went to school, they are now able to read books directly on their phones because many famous technology companies such as Apple and Samsung have designed electronic books, better known as e-books. This is a great invention, since many books are able to be converted into an e-books. It is more convenient because I can read books easily through the cell
“Ripe for digital destruction,” (A Textbook) were words of the late Steve Jobs referring to the enormous potential for the textbooks industry. He believed the textbook market to be worth an estimated 8 billion dollars in the U.S. alone. His vision was to lessen the burden of carrying heavy textbooks around, while also offering them as a free feature with the iPad. He wanted to change the culture of textbooks forever.
Value has different aspects which include company values; which relates to new innovations, job growth, reducing costs, as well as long term production and so forth. Value must meet customers’ needs which they benefit from the product or service.
Student’s textbooks should be replaced by notebook computers for several reasons. Initially notebook computers will sum up to be the cheaper choice to make. Subsequently another major factor is the fact that anything online does not have to be printed which means that a lot of trees will not be cut down meaning that a lot of waste will not be created. Furthermore a notebook computer is much easier to be taught and to learn from. Replacing the traditional textbooks with notebook computers will allow it to take the spot of the traditional textbook, letting it to be known that technology is the future.
With technology progressing from drones fulfilling shipments to electronic books becoming cheaper, major companies such as Apple and Amazon have had a big impact on not only the tech industry but the publishing industry as well. Companies are outputting resources like IBook’s and the Kindle bookstore to take full advantage of the transition to digital publishing. As a result of this we have greener, more budget friendly books, and outdated traditional copies of text. With the introduction to these resources it is making the lives of students and the mass market more convenient. Students are now able to purchase books on one device that won’t weigh their bags down on a daily basis. Companies have created bookstores that can be accessed from devices that we use every day, resulting in paperless copies of books that are substantially cheaper than the traditional hard copy. E-books are replacing physical books and textbooks rapidly, and as a result they are becoming more widely and readily available for students.
“Values are the beliefs of an individual, group, or organization, in which they are emotionally invested” (Carpenter, Bauer, & Erdogan, 2015). Many organizations consider corporate values strategically import for building their company’s reputation and keeping the customers’ confidence and allegiance. That, however, is only a tiny portion of the strategic benefits that organizational values can offer. “Further benefits include:guidance for decision-making on all levels, selection criterion for new employees, driver for individual and corporate behavior on all levels supporting the vision, mission, and goals of the company, and effective definition and implementation of core values” (Gupta, 2015). Values within a company need to be more than just a few words that sound nice to ensure overall acceptance within an organization. “Effective core values need to be emotionally appealing and workable” (Gupta,
As more people began to access the Internet through smart phones and tablets rather than laptops and computers, it is not a surprise that they would also want to transform the American education system by bringing tablets into classrooms. In fact, a few schools around the country have already replaced textbooks with tablets and have seen improvements in students’ standardized test scores. Using tablets instead of textbooks is not only convenient and helpful, but it can also reduce the amount of paper wastes in school. However, it is not a good idea to completely transform textbooks with tablets with the current technology, for it can not only be damaging to the environment and costly to set up, but also might not be effective in improving K-12 education in the long run.
Getting educated is one of the most important things in life when it comes to getting a good future. By developing good knowledge of schooling, it helps establish and maintain new information as needed throughout the real world. As books are one the essential tools in learning, eBooks are being used in a everyday lifestyle. Traveling to get away places from city life, helps give reading a comforting feel. Students that use print books are eventually going to use ebooks in the future. By educating students with ebooks, it is more efficient than carrying textbooks; ebooks is more convenient and reliable to read, write and store notes. Print books are being replaced by eBooks, it helps on keeping files together and it makes notes
To conclude, there are many distinguished advantages that e-books have over traditional paper books, as e-books are lightweight, portable and hence convenient to carry, have greater update capacity, have greater storage capacity, easily accessible through online downloading as well as being environmental friendly (with saving trees). With ongoing technological development of ebooks, there have since been many added functionality for ebooks (rotational screen, hyperlink, split screen) with even many more functionality to be developed in the near future.