Strategic Network Analysis: Case Study and Practical Demonstration

This case study delves into the intricacies of strategic network analysis, examining various aspects of a business's operations and planning. It begins with an introduction and proceeds with an environmental scan, assessing both internal and external factors affecting the organization. The study outlines relevant legislation, regulations, and codes of practice, followed by a discussion of objectives, strategies, and priorities. It covers roles, responsibilities, and key performance indicators, along with a proposed timeframe for implementation. Cooperative ventures, cost-benefit analyses, and risk assessments are explored, alongside the importance of expert consultation. The implementation plan, including policy monitoring, and the review of planning effectiveness are also considered. SWOT and PESTLE analyses provide further insights. The practical demonstration section highlights the benefits of the strategies to the organization, culminating in a conclusion and references. The case study emphasizes the importance of strategic planning, market analysis, and stakeholder engagement for business success. The strategic network analysis focuses on the coordination of different cooperation and among independent Enterprises.

Case Study/Practical
Demonstration Assessment

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Case study/Practical demonstration assessment task 2....................................................................2
A environmental scan..................................................................................................................2
B Legislation Regulation and code of practices..........................................................................3
C. Objectives Strategies and priorities.........................................................................................3
D. Roles and responsibilities.......................................................................................................3
E Performance indicator..............................................................................................................4
F. Timeframe...............................................................................................................................4
G Cooperative Ventures..............................................................................................................5
h. Cost benefit and risk analysis..................................................................................................5
I. Consultation from experts........................................................................................................6
J. Implementation of plan............................................................................................................6
K. Review the effectiveness of planning.....................................................................................7
SWOT analysis............................................................................................................................7
Pestle analysis..............................................................................................................................8
Part B Practical demonstration........................................................................................................8
Benefit of strategies to the organisation......................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................................10
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Introduction
The entire report focuses on a case study. This report also provides detailed information about
strategic network. Strategic network is being described as the coordination of different
cooperation and among independent Enterprises (Salinas and et.al 2019). This report provides
detailed information about vision mission and values of the company and also focuses on the
legislation regulation different roles and responsibilities as well. This report also provides
detailed information about the methods of research and also access the value of strategic
network. This report also measures strength of strategic network. This report also provides
detailed information about the benefit of strategic network as well.
Case study/Practical demonstration assessment task 2
A environmental scan
Environmental scanning is one of the technique of tracking the train and occurrences
which is going on within the environment. Organisation is scanning includes internal and
external environment of the organisation which can impact the current as well as the future
business of the company. With the help of environmental scanning an organisation gets to know
about the latest trends of the market so that this will help them to make different goals and
strategies.
Environmental scanning can only effective when it examine quantitative and qualitative
changes at the same time. These factors will let the organisation know about various internal and
external issues which has become a threat for the organisation. External factors refer to those
factors which are outside the organisation but even though they can impact the overall
profitability of the organisation.
External factors are demographics which includes various regional national level apart
from this it also includes population level of standard along with this it also States about the
status of immigration. Economics one of the important factor in external factors if the economy
of the country is growing them organisation can also earn good profit. Apart from this
technology also plays a vital role because technology is continuously changing what is the
responsibility of the organisation they must use advanced and modern technology.
B Legislation Regulation and code of practices
Strategic plan give more focuses on the goals and formation of various Strategies for that
organisation can achieve all their predetermined goals and objectives (Abu and et.al 2017). But it
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is the responsibility of the organisation that they must follow as the legislation Regulation and
code of conduct. Organisation follows all the regulations and code of practices then it will help
the organisation to reduce the violations which can occurred in the form of patent Trademark and
copyright. It is the duty of the management that they must use proper trademarks and copyrights
so that other competitors can’t use the same strategies of the organisation. Patent right will
protect the property of the organisation so that no one other competitors can use the same
property.
C. Objectives Strategies and priorities
One of the biggest objectives of this organisation is to provide professional and customised
services to their clients. Apart from this another objective of this organisation is to ensure that
their clients and customers achieve best services and therefore this organisation wants to
establish a successful partnership with their clients as well as their workforce so that the end goal
of the organisation can be achieved. These are the major objective of this organisation for that
organisation has prepared various Strategies and give priorities to the strategies so that the
organisation can attain this entire course.
One of the important strategy on which the organisation is focusing is that they want to
create a market for their organisation there for this company is focusing on marketing and
promotional activities at most. Apart from this due to increase of online services this
organisation is also focusing on providing online services to their customers and clients so that
the plants do not get switch with other competitors as well. Apart from this it is the priority of
this organisation to provide proper trading and development to their staff so that they can provide
High Quality Services to their customers.
D. Roles and responsibilities
The most important role and responsibility of strategic plan is that it totally understand the
mission vision and strategies of the company and also give them shape so that organisation can
attain its and goal. Apart from this it also produces various plants that all the strategies can be
analysed properly and management can also know that are the strategies working in the favour of
the company or not.
This will also help the company to recognise their competitors in the market and also helped
them to know what kind of foot right and opportunity they are getting from their competitors
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(George, 2020). One of the biggest and important responsibilities is that it analyse the operation
of the company and the strategic performance of the company for the accounting period.
E Performance indicator
Performance indicators are responsible for measuring the overall performance of the
organisation. By Implementing various performance indicator, company can know how much
their strategies are working and how much efforts they have to put more so that they can attain
their predetermined goals.
This organisation can use client retention rate integrator so that they can know how much that
clients and customers are satisfied with the services provided by the company (Uzarski, and et. al
2019). Along with company can use profit margin indicated as well so that they may know how
much preferred have generated for the accounting period and how company can increase their
efficiency to generate profitability.
But the main objective of these companies to provide High Quality Services to their
customers it is very important to know their relation with their clients, this can only be known by
the company whenever they use various key performance indicators. Company can use various
key performance indicators which are related to their employees so that by using such indicators
community can know how their employees are performing within the organisation and do the
need any kind of training so that they can improve their performance more.
F. Timeframe
As the name suggest time frame describes about the time taken by the organisation to
achieve their and objective. There are various steps which are being followed by the time frame
one of the important step is review of various visions and missions of the organisation. It is very
important that the Vision and Mission of the organisation was related with work of the
organisation.
Organisation focuses on providing different services to their customers so their vision and
vision also support their objective. Another step as developing various strategies so that the
vision mission and objectives of the organisation can be obtained within the time frame. This
case is 30 the time frame is of three years so the organisation must produce such strategies so
that they will retain their end goal. Apart from this it is the responsibility of the management that
they must establish various strategic objectives so that they can obtain result as soon as possible.
Execution of planning stage occurs where the management will execute all the plans. Last stage
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comes which is establishment of various resource allocation here the management will distribute
different resources so that the need of the organisation can be fulfilled.
One of the important resources of this organisation is human resources so it is must for the
organisation that they must provide proper training and development opportunities to that human
resources so that they can produce more quality product in their work.
G Cooperative Ventures
Cooperative represents independent organisations where each member has equal stake
responsibilities and control. Cooperative ventures help the Organisation to get more success. It
also allows more flexibility among the agreements which is being done by different parties
within the organisation.
This organisation wants to increase their market share by providing High Quality Services to
their customers so corporate to venture can be a good strategy for this organisation and is
strategy will also work in the favour of the company (Del Castillo. and et.al 2019). With the help
of cooperative ventures disorganization can conduct of joint venture with those companies who
are living in the similar services and operating in the same market as well.
This organisation creates a joint venture with another organisation then this will also
reduce the competition in the market and was organisation can use resources and technologies of
each other. Apart from this they will get huge consumer base because of the organisation will
have their different clients and customers so that whenever they get merged with each other they
can provide outstanding services to the clients of both the companies this will help the
organisations to increase their goodwill and reputation in the market.
h. Cost benefit and risk analysis
Cost benefit and analysis is one of the analytical tool which is being used by the
organisation so that they can appraise their investment decisions and get welfare and goodwill.
The main purpose of using cost benefit analysis is to facilitate an effective allocation of
resources and it also helps the organisations to analyse the possible alternatives.
Cost benefit analysis is popularly known as a mathematical approach which provides the
answer of basic questions to the organisations. Cost benefit analysis focuses on two basic
parameters such as financial analysis and economic analysis. In the financial analysis these tools
get the information about all the financial cost and revenues of the organisation so that in the
future organisation does not miss any kind of opportunities.
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The main objective of financial analysis is that they want to evaluate each and every project of
the organisation and want to know that do the project have financial efficiency or not. It also
looks about all the economic and non economic details of the organisation so that in the future
organisation do not have to face any loss (Trade 2017). Another factor is economic analysis and
which organisation analysis all the factors which can impact their profitability weather their
customers technology and political changes in the country.
I. Consultation from experts
Consultation from different experts will help the organisation to get growth in the market.
Consultants are available in almost every organisation and every industry. They are being hired
by the organisation because they have proper knowledge about laws and regulations and they
also have expertise so that they can help the organisation to achieve their end target.
Experts also evaluate customer satisfaction and their preferences as well so that they can
guide the organisation property about the Expectations of their customers. Apart from this expert
will also helps the company to form long term vision for the organisation because they see the
organisation from a bigger picture and perspective and they always tried to increase the overall
competitiveness and profitability.
J. Implementation of plan
It is very important before implementing any strategy and plant. Monitoring of policies and
strategies will help the company to increase the policy environment (Williams, 2018). It also
states about the level of engagement of various stakeholders. Along with this it is very important
to know about the documentation and progress of policy before implementing.
Policies and strategies can only implement into practice by knowing the factors whether
the policy will benefit the organisation or not. Policy monitoring is one of the important process
through which stakeholders can follow and all the policies so that they can ensure about the
development and implementation of the policies as per the intended.
Whenever the organisation monitors the policy then they can come to know if any failure
and Default are present in the policies and strategies so that before implementing such strategies
that can sort out all the issues and problems easily. Management of the organisation can also use
various data that is a financial data or a Service Delivery data so that we can implement the
policy in a appropriate manner. If the policies are appropriate and suitable for the organisation
then it can bring various new opportunities for the organisation.
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K. Review the effectiveness of planning
It is very important for the organisation that they must review their planning before
implementing so that they can find out all the. It is the first and most process which every
organisation follows it doesn’t matter who is leading the decision making process and forming
various policies. Apart from this company should prioritise their decision making as this
company focuses on their quality of services because then main objective is to provide better
services to their clients so that it is very important that they must define their criteria of decision
making.
To measure the effectiveness along with the efficiency of the strategies which is being
implemented in the organisation that it is responsibility of the management in the must link all
the strategies with the objective of the organisation then only the strategies will work for the
benefit of the organisation (Marx, 2017). If the strategies are formed as per the objectives and
goals of the organisation then only it will generate positive results and also recognise various
upcoming opportunities for the organisation. Apart from this to review the strategic planning
organisation can also check their privacy strategies so that they do not repeat the same mistakes
with new strategies.
SWOT analysis
Strength
This company has a strong brand image and this is one of the biggest strength of this company
and with the help of this they can easily attract new customers. Apart from this, organisation is
providing Quality Services to their clients from so long.
Weakness
Being a premium brand this company provides services on taking high fees from their clients
which is one of the weaknesses of this company.
Opportunities
This company is present in Limited countries so it is the opportunity available in front of the
company that they can increase their market share on different countries and they can start
operations on the international level as well.
Threat
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Is organisation is facing right from competitors. As many competitors are started beating in the
similar business and therefore they are providing their services on affordable prices which has
become one of the biggest threat for this organisation.
Pestle analysis
Political factor
This organisation is facing difficulties from the taxation policy of the government because they
are continuously increasing tax on various businesses and that for this company is facing
difficulties in paying tax to the government.
Environmental factor
This organisation is concerned about the environmental factors as they are continuously working
for the Welfare and development of environment (Campbell and et.al 2021). Therefore this
company is aggressively work on social activities and also improving the ecology of the
environment.
Legal
Organisation is continuously following all the labour laws discrimination laws and other laws.
Part B Practical demonstration
Benefit of strategies to the organisation
Strategies describe the pigeon and the future of the organisation also added value to the
organisation by setting different objectives and it also helps the organisation to know what are
the threats and opportunities available to them (Wells, 2021). Strategies also help the
organisation to mitigate weaknesses and threats. Apart from this strategy is also clear all the
boundaries so that appropriate decisions can be made.
Conclusion
It is being computed that this report provides detailed information about the environmental
scanning of the organisation. It also gets the organisation how to implement various legislations
and regulations. This report provides detailed information about the importance of Strategies for
the organisation and how by implementing and monitoring accurate strategies they can achieve
the objectives. Along with this swot and pestel analysis for the organisation is also being
mentioned in this report through which organisation can know their strength and weaknesses and
also organisation can know which factor impacts their profitability so that they can improvise
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them. This report also provides the importance of strategies and how appropriate strategies can
benefit the organisation is also being elaborated in this report.
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