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Evolent Health Inc
Student’s Name
Institution
SWOT Matrix
| Strengths High quality services Advanced technology Qualified personnel | Weaknesses Marketing deficiencies Management challenges |
| Opportunities Application of new technology Expansion into new markets Diversification of services | Threats Competition Tough government policies Economic slowdowns |
- This SWOT matrix summarizes the major internal and external factors that affect the operations of Evolent Health Inc.,
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Factors that affect the firm’s environment
Limited resources
Management inefficiencies
Employee behavior
Stiff competition
Government rules and regulations
Top 3 concerns
- Seeking additional resources
- Improve management efficiency and effectiveness
- Improve services to be more competitive
- Different factors exist in the internal as well as the external environment
- They affect the organization different
- They need to be handled in different ways
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Enhancing Strengths
- Evolent Health Inc., needs to hire professionally trained staff to boost the quality of services offered
- It is also necessary to invest in latest technology
- This will enable the firm to maintain its efficiency and effectiveness in service delivery
- Necessary investments should be made to boost strengths (Sadler, 2003)
- The organization needs to concentrate on technology for the purpose of delivering the best services
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Minimizing weaknesses
- The organization needs to apply more effective marketing strategies
- This will ensure that the right clients are targeted and provided with the right services
- The management team needs to learn from successful firms
- This will enable them to apply effective approaches
- Through effective marketing, Evolent can expand its market and offer services to more clients
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Maximizing opportunities
- Evolent can dispatch a larger team to research where they can establish their services
- This will enable the organization to reach new markets
- The firm should also diversify its products and services to serve more clients
- Diversification gives clients more options to choose from (Berkowitz, 2016)
- The organization needs to focus on diversifying its products and services in order to serve more clients
- This will also expand its market boundary
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Overcoming threats
- One of the threats is competition
- This can be overcome by improving the quality of products and services offered
- The company is also faced by economic challenges
- This can dealt with through making informed and rational financial decisions
- Through the application of effective strategies, the firm will be able to boost the services it offers and this will overcome the threat of competition
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Summary of the SWOT analysis
- The company enjoys the advantage of using advanced technology to offer high quality services
- However, it suffers the weakness of management challenges
- There is an opportunity of expanding into new markets and offer more services
- The efforts are threatened by stiff competition
- The management team needs to pay attention to the SWOT analysis so as to understand the exact condition of the organization
- This will assist them to make the right decisions
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Recommendations
Training managers to boost their efficiency and effectiveness
Investing in technology
Diversification of products and services
- Recommendations are meant to boost operations
- Their implementation is critical for the success of the organization (Sadler, 2003)
- The major recommendation is for managers to be trained so that they are equipped with relevant skills and techniques
- These will enable them to run the firm effectively
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References
Berkowitz, A. (2016). Essentials of Healthcare Marketing. Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
Sadler, P. (2003). Strategic Management. London: Kogan Page.