LPC Warehouse Management System For Clients In The Business Sector
IIT K Maverick Regional Round
1. Name Phone Number LinkedIn profile
Shruti Dadhwal
(Captain)
+919999878060 Shruti
R Vishnuraj +919446949900 Vishnu
Swaraj Krishna +919078341902 Swaraj
Submitted by,
TEAM SYZYGY
1
2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY : Client should focus on markets 1, 4 and 5
STRATEGIC
OBJECTIVES
ANALYSIS
INSIGHTS
RECOMMENDATIONS
BUSINESS SITUATION STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT GROWTH
To assess current situation of the
company in 8 metropolitan market
segments.
Analysed market conditions for
declining revenues and subscriber
base
• Markets 1, 3, 5 and 8 are operating under
profitable margins while markets 2, 4, 6 and 7 are
incurring losses.
• Market 4 is having low market share even though
there is low competition and good network quality.
• Focus on Markets 1,4 and 5.
Holistic assessment of all the markets on various
parameters like network quality and level of
competition
Market segmentation based on competition, network
quality and market share
To increase client’s profitability and subscriber
base.
Identifying 3 key market segments to focus on
based on their profitability, market share and
growth opportunity.
• Improving network quality and market share
in market 1, 4 and 5
• Redefining marketing strategies for the
same
• Identifying options for market diversification.
• Growth is directly related to network quality.
• Despite of profitability we have declining
subscribers.
• Lack of innovative marketing plans and
attractive services for customers.
Declining revenue and profit due to
less productive marketing strategy
and competition from large players
Client should deploy evaluation
strategies to identify the source of
lagging performance
3. Existing
Competitors
• 5 out of 8 market have
strong/Moderate level of
competition
Less productive
Marketing strategy
• 250 M spend for national
level initiatives
Unsatisfied Customers
• 6 out of 8 markets ranked 5
or below on network quality
• 175000 customers left in 3
years
High operation cost
• 735 stores across all the
markets
• 1000M G& A
expenditures
DECLINING
REVENUE AND
PROFIT
-200
-100
0
100
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Profit by
market(MUSD)
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Revenue Vs Marketing and GA exp.(MUSD)
Revenue Marketing and GA Expenditures
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
2010 2011 2012 2013
Revenue(MUSD)
-300 -200 -100 0 100 200 300
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Marketwise change in
Subscribers 2010-2013
Client Insights Market insights Business diagnosis Segmentation Growth strategy Risk assessment
4. Market 2
• Loss making
• Lowest number of subscribers
• Smallest market
Market 1
• Highest profitable market
• Opportunity for improvement in
network quality
• High cost for new subscribers
Market 3
• Highest market share
• Excellent network quality
Market 4
• Low level of competition still market
share is low
• Loss making
Market 5
• Lowest Network quality
• Profit making
Market 6
• Close to breakeven
• Network quality low
Market 7
• Average network quality
• Less number of stores
Market 8
• Highest client base
• Excellent network quality and
highest number of stores
*Note : green
signifies profit, red
signifies loss
0
20
40
60
80
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Smart phone
penetration
0
50
100
150
200
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Number of stores
Client Insights Market insights Business diagnosis Segmentation Growth strategy Risk assessment
0
200
400
600
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Marketing and GA
Expenditures(MUSD)
5. BUSINESS DIAGNOSIS
CUSTOMER FINANCIALS
EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT INTERNAL BUSINESS
Marketing Program
assessment
• Continuous evaluation of marketing
programs through metrics
measurement
Capturing VOC
• Surveys
• Interviews
• Focus groups
• Suggestions
• Observations
Financial statement analysis
• Horizontal analysis
• Trend analysis
• Regression analysis
• Graphical analysis
• Ratio analysis
Review of Internal business
policies
Competition
• Assessing general market
conditions
• Identifying how competitors
differentiate from client’s
offerings
• Select which competitor to attack
or avoid
-1000
-500
0
500
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Profit Margin
Ratio 2013
Appraisal of operational
costs
Client Insights Market insights Business diagnosis Segmentation Growth strategy Risk assessment
6. 4
1.9Million
Level of competition
NetworkQuality
1
3.3Million
14
%
2
.35Millio
n
5
3
2.9Million
32
%
8
4.9Million
24% 7
1.3Million
12
%
6
1.2Million
18
%
5
4Million
LOW MODERATE HIGH
10
%
7%
INSIGHTS
• Market 8 will be having
threat of competition in
future
• Maintain network quality
in markets3 and 8
• Focus on market share
growth in markets 4
• Improve network quality in
markets 5 and 1
IMPLICATIONS
• When the market moves
towards right ,market
share might reduces
• When the market moves
up , market share can
increase
• Top left corner is the ideal
location
Client Insights Market insights Business diagnosis Segmentation Growth strategy Risk assessment
7. PROMOTION
CHANNELS
• Use of Social media for
customer feedbacks
• Promotion of new services
and schemes through online
advertisement
Network Quality Improvement - a 4Q approach
Measure
• Collection of data from
customers like number of
call drops, average data
speed, signal quality etc.
• Conduct surveys among
the customers for
network experience
Voice of the customer : Poor network quality
Analyse
• List down all the causes
for poor network quality
• Find the most probable
root cause and most
affected market
• Identifying key areas of
improvement
• Use pareto’s principle
Implement
• Execute action plans
for identified pilot
markets
• Horizontal
deployment of action
plan among all the
markets
Sustain
• Continuous monitoring
• Feedback and control
GROWTH STRATEGY
Market 1
• Find ways to reduce new subscription
cost, then concentrate on increasing
market share
Market 4
• Network cost is high compared to
market share, we should work on
improving number of subscribers for
profitability
• Increase number of stores
Market 5
• Even with highest revenue per
subscriber , the network quality is very
poor
MARKETING
PEOPLE
• Identify the target audience
in different markets
• Providing innovative
schemes and offers to
increase subscription
DIVERSIFICATION
• Diversification into other
services like DTH , IOT
• Partnerships , Mergers and
Acquisitions
• Vertical integration
Client Insights Market insights Business diagnosis Segmentation Growth strategy Risk assessment
8. RISK ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION
FINANCIAL RISKS
• Improper value utilisation of network assets
• Lack of confidence among investors
• Difficulty in repaying debts (If any )
• Fluctuations in US economy
STRATEGIC RISKS
• Difficult customer retention in high competition
• Failure of Marketing strategies
• Ineffective management of new policies
• Unpredictable consumer behaviour
OPERATIONAL RISKS
• Lack of organizational flexibility
• Lack of skilled employees during diversification
COMPLIANCE RISKS
• Uncertainty of legal or regulatory compliance in
new services
• Utilisation analysis before allocating assets
• Clearly state associated risks to the investors
• Predictive analysis of financial growth
• Detailed forecasting of economy
• Build a growth strategy around the notion of
competitive differences.
• Hiring right people for the right job.
• Focus on deeply understanding the customer
values.
• Plan to build a skilled workforce(in-
house/external hiring)
• Proper research on legal or regulatory policies
before diversifications.
Client Insights Market insights Business diagnosis Segmentation Growth strategy Risk assessment
11. Business situation Strategic assessment Recommendations
Existing
Competitors
• 5 out of 8 market have
strong/Moderate level of
competition
Less productive
Marketing strategy
• 250 M spend for national
level initiatives
Unsatisfied Customers
• 6 out of 8 markets ranked 5
or below on network quality
• 175000 customers left in 3
years
High operation cost
• 735 stores across all the
markets
• 1000M G& A
expenditures
DECLINING
REVENUE AND
PROFIT
-200
-100
0
100
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Profit by
market(MUSD)
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Revenue Vs Marketing and GA exp.(MUSD)
Revenue Marketing and GA Expenditures
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
2010 2011 2012 2013
Revenue(MUSD)
-300 -200 -100 0 100 200 300
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Marketwise change in
Subscribers 2010-2013
12. 4
1.9Million
Level of competition
NetworkQuality
1
3.3Million
14
%
2
.35Millio
n
5
3
2.9Million
32
%
8
4.9Million
24% 7
1.3Million
12
%
6
1.2Million
18
%
5
4Million
LOW MODERATE HIGH
10
%
7%
INSIGHTS
• Market 8 will be having
threat of competition in
future
• Maintain network quality
in market s3 and 8
• Focus on market share
growth in market 4
• Improve network quality in
markets 5 and 1
IMPLICATIONS
• When the market moves
towards right ,market
share might reduce
• When the market moves
up , market share can
increase
• Top left corner is the ideal
location
Business situation Strategic assessment Recommendations
13. PROMOTION
CHANNELS
• Use of Social media for
customer feedbacks
• Promotion of new services
and schemes through online
advertisement
Network Quality Improvement - a 4Q approach
Measure
• Collection of data from
customers like number of
call drops, average data
speed, signal quality etc.
• Conduct surveys among
the customers for
network experience
Voice of the customer : Poor network quality
Analyse
• List down all the causes
for poor network quality
• Find the most probable
root cause and most
affected market
• Identifying key areas of
improvement
• Use pareto’s principle
Implement
• Execute action plans
for identified pilot
markets
• Horizontal
deployment of action
plan among all the
markets
Sustain
• Continuous monitoring
• Feedback and control
GROWTH STRATEGY
Market 1
• Find ways to reduce new subscription
cost, then concentrate on increasing
market share
Market 4
• Network cost is high compared to
market share, we should work on
improving number of subscribers for
profitability
• Increase number of stores
Market 5
• Even with highest revenue per
subscriber , the network quality is very
poor
MARKETING
PEOPLE
• Identify the target audience
in different markets
• Providing innovative
schemes and offers to
increase subscription
DIVERSIFICATION
• Diversification into other
services like DTH , IOT
• Partnerships , Mergers and
Acquisitions
• Vertical integration
Business situation Strategic assessment Recommendations
14. MARKET PROGRAM ASSESSMENT
Identifying the
key goals
Relate the
goals to
KPI’s
Continuous
evaluation
Goal KPI
Brand awareness Website traffic. page views , social links
Engagement Blog comments, like shares, inbound links
Lead generation
Email and blog subscriptions, Form
completion
Sales Online sales, Offline sales,
Customer retention/loyalty
Percentage of content consumed by existing
customers
CAPTURING VOC
Customer
identification
Voices
from
customers
Translating
voices to
needs
Verbatim Need Requirement
“I don’t want call
drops”
No call drops Network quality
“I want high data
speed”
High speed internet More bandwidth
“I want cheaper rates
for my call”
Price should be equal
or less than
competitors
Price
APPENDIX
15. FINANCIAL CALCULATIONS
REVENUE
Annual revenue = No of subscribers * Average revenue per
subscriber per month * 12
EXPENDITURES
• Marketing and GA costs
• Annual network cost
• New subscription costs
• Average annual Personnel costs
Profit Margin ratio = Profit /Revenue
ASSUMPTIONS
• New subscribers by market for 2013 only
• New subscribers to the client calculated by considering market share
• Other costs and revenue are considered negligible
• Personnel cost is not included in G&A Expenses
APPENDIX
The excel file with calculation is attached
Market Subscibers in 2010 Subscibers in 2013 Increase in subscribers
1 450 400 -50
2 20 20 0
3 800 1000 200
4 75 150 75
5 600 400 -200
6 400 200 -200
7 200 100 -100
8 1100 1200 100
TOTAL 3645 3470 -175
Market Subscribers
-250 -200 -150 -100 -50 0 50 100 150 200 250
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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16. TEAM NAME : SYZYGY*
* In astronomy, is a straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies in a gravitational system
TEAM CAPTAIN : Shruti Dadhwal
I am an avid fiction reader
and try to continuously hone
my culinary skills. I am driven
by curiosity to learn new
things. My mantra for life is –
‘I never lose, either I win or I
learn’.
MEMBER : R Vishnuraj MEMBER : Swaraj Krishna
I am energetic and loves to
have fun. I listen to music
and watch movies in my free
time. I am a fast learner and
always think about new
ways of doing things
I am a calm, passionate
and fun-loving guy. I
believe in hard-work to
stay focused and keep
going. I love Table tennis
and Volleyball.
Editor's Notes
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We team SYZYGY is here to present in front of you the analysis and recommendations for the case study Proposal_US
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To begin with I will be giving a brief overview of the problem at hand
The client is a regional wireless service provider operating in 8 US metropolitan areas ,They have been facing stiff competition from the larger operators in the industry, resulting in declining revenues and profitability in the last few years
The clients previous efforts to improve performance focussed on national level initiatives in marketing and customer experiences, but did not see meaningful improvements in their financial metrics
We will here discuss different avenues for the client to improve profitability and financial performance
To start with , we will first analysis the business situation
The objective is to assess the current situation of the company in the 8 market sectors
Here we analyse the market conditions for declining revenues and subscriber base
The key insights we found were that the declining revenue and customer base are due to less productive marketing strategy ,
Excessive competition and low network quality
We thus recommend the clients to deploy the business evaluation strategy to identify the source of lagging performanceb
We next discuss the holistic assessment of all markets on various parameters like network quality and level of competition
Here to understand the situation better, we segmented the markets based on competition , network quality and market share
After segmentation , we found that the markets 1,3,5 and 8 are operating under profitable margins , while markets 2,4, 6 and 7 are incurring losses
Market 4 is having less market share even though there is low competition and good network quality in that area
After the strategic assessment we recommend the client to focus on profits 1,4 and 5 to improve its financial metrics customer base
Moving towards the end of the presentation we will be discussing the growth strategy to increase client’s profitability and subscriber base.
As a part of which we focus markets 1,4 and 5 as discussed earlier
The major insights we found during analysis is that growth is directly related to network quality
Despite of profitability in some markets , we have declined subscriber
There is a lack of innovative marketing strategy and attractive services for the customer.
We recommend the client to improve network quality and enhance its market share in segments 4 and 5.
Client should redefine the market strategies and idenitify the options for market diversification.
Moving on to the presentation now
We will discuss some current business trends of the client.
As we can see that the company is suffering from declining revenue from ________in 2010 to ____________ in 2013.
The four factors we identified for this declining revenue were
Firstly Existing Competitors. % out of 8 markets have strong or moderate level of competition.
Secondly we have a reducing customer base.
175000 customers left in 3years.
Graph here shows that markets 1,5,6 and 7show negative change in subscribers from 2010-2013.
Then we have a High Operation Cost.
The client has 735 stores across US adding upto ____________M USD.
The client spent 1000M USD expenditure on General and Aministrative costs.
Last but not the least , the growth of the company suffered because of less productive marketing strategy.
The company spent 250M USD for its national initiatives in 2013.
The graph here shows markets revenue and total marketing and G&A expenditure of the company.
From which we can see that these Marketing and GA expenditures are more than 50 % of the revenue.
Now moving on to the next slide, here discuss all the markets in details.
We have shown the markets in colors based on their profitability. Green signifying most profitable which is market 1 and red signifying maximum loss incurring which is market 4.
Discussing the markets in the decreasing order of the profitability
We have market 1____________________
Then we have Market 5_____________________
Followed by Market 8________________________
And then Market 3______________________________
Discussing the markets in the decreasing level of loss incurring rate
We have market 4_______________________
Followed by Market 2_________________________
Then we have Market 7_________________
And at the end we have market 6
For the continued growth of business it is important to understand what factors and conditions does your current success depends on?
Which of them might change over time (or are changing already), thus putting current success at risk?
How can we prepare for these possible changes in order to cushion or even exploit their impact?
We here propose the Client to deploy a business diagnosis strategy to evaluate all the changing factors and sources behind the lagging financial performance.
Here we describe the strategy under four sections.
Customer Evaluation
Customers are critical to any service providing business. It is important to identify you customers and capture the Voice of Customer.
We require customer feedback and know what are the new customer demands. And then change these needs to understand where the Company is lagging in providing customer satisfaction.
This can be done through various means like surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations and suggestions , feedbacks.
Marketing program assessment
The telecoms industry has always been ultra competitive. In this a competent marketing strategy can boost the revenues of the Client.
For assessing the marketing strategy the Client can Identifying the key goals and relate these goals to Key Performance Indicators and then doing the continuous evaluation.
For example we take Brand awareness to be one of the key goals then we evaluate the goal on KPI’s like Website traffic. page views , social links.
The second major section where a company needs to keep a continuous watch is the Financials of the company.
This can be done through all or some suitable combinations of the analysis techniques
Horizontal analysis
is the comparison of historical financial information over a series of reporting periods, or of the ratios derived from this financial information. The intent is to see if any numbers are unusually high or low in comparison to the information for bracketing periods, which may then trigger a detailed investigation of the reason for the difference.
(A common problem with horizontal analysis is that the aggregation of information in the financial statements may have changed over time, due to ongoing changes in the chart of accounts, so that revenues, expenses, assets, or liabilities may shift between different accounts and therefore appear to cause variances when comparing account balances from one period to the next.)
A trend analysis is an aspect of technical analysis that tries to predict the future movement of a stock based on past data. Trend analysis is based on the idea that what has happened in the past gives traders an idea of what will happen in the future. There are three main types of trends: short-, intermediate- and long-term.In statistical modeling, regression analysis is a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables. It includes many techniques for modeling and analyzing several variables, when the focus is on the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables (or 'predictors').
Ratio Analysis is a form of Financial Statement Analysis that is used to obtain a quick indication of a firm's financial performance in several key areas. The ratios are categorized as Short-term Solvency Ratios, Debt Management Ratios, Asset Management Ratios, Profitability Ratios, and Market Value Ratios.
Finding the problems inside the business is very critical. To evaluate the business internally the company can do periodic review of its business policies.
The appraisal of operational costs and other fixed costs is also equally important. To increase profit we need to keep innovating and improvising operational expertise.
Assessing External Environment is as important as internal business evaluation. Though we can not control much when the issues are external but surely we can prepare well in advance if we evaluate the external threats to the company.
We need to identify what and how is the competitor different. What all services and better features are they providing to the customer which our company is not.
We need to analyze the current market conditions and trends.
The most critical aspect of analyzing competitors is to evaluate which competitor we need to attack and which are the ones we need to avoid.
The markets are segmented based on network quality , level of competition and market share.
The top left corner is ideally preferred for growth in market share.
The main focus should be in shifting the markets to a top zone ,where network quality is high
Market 1 and 5 are considerably large market with less market share for the client.
This is primarily due to low network quality and high level of competition.
Market share of 1 and 5 can be improved by working on network quality in these markets.
If we take the case of market 4, market share is low even though there is a good network quality and very low competition,
it’s critical to invest in infrastructure, and core products and services. But it’s also important to make sure customers have an excellent brand experience at each and every touch point. It’s this ongoing relationship and audience engagement that will differentiate operators and determine how effectively they grow their market share, minimize churn and increase usage.
Tell a Compelling Brand Narrative
Make Customers Your Best Marketers
Promote, Convert, Educate
Make Customers Loyal
Keep It All Legal
Show Your Partners Some Love
Connect Consumers with Big Events
Optimize Your Content Strategy
Base Your Decisions on Insight
Risk mitigation planning is the process of developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and reduce threats to project objectives . Risk mitigation implementation is the process of executing risk mitigation actions. Risk mitigation progress monitoring includes tracking identified risks, identifying new risks, and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project.