The document is a SWOT analysis of the Arab Open University in Lebanon conducted by a student. It identifies the university's strengths as its partnership with a British university, flexible scheduling, technology services, and low tuition fees. Weaknesses include a limited number of majors and courses taught in English. Opportunities for growth are new branches, majors, and lower prices than other universities. Threats include strong marketing from competitors and some universities having even lower prices. The analysis evaluates these internal and external factors to understand the university's position and guide its future strategies.
The document is a SWOT analysis of the Arab Open University in Lebanon conducted by a student. It identifies the university's strengths as its partnership with a British university, flexible scheduling, technology services, and low tuition fees. Weaknesses include a limited number of majors and courses taught in English. Opportunities for growth are new branches, majors, and lower prices than other universities. Threats include strong marketing from competitors and some universities having even lower prices. The analysis evaluates these internal and external factors to understand the university's position and guide its future strategies.
The document is a SWOT analysis of the Arab Open University in Lebanon conducted by a student. It identifies the university's strengths as its partnership with a British university, flexible scheduling, technology services, and low tuition fees. Weaknesses include a limited number of majors and courses taught in English. Opportunities for growth are new branches, majors, and lower prices than other universities. Threats include strong marketing from competitors and some universities having even lower prices. The analysis evaluates these internal and external factors to understand the university's position and guide its future strategies.
The document is a SWOT analysis of the Arab Open University in Lebanon conducted by a student. It identifies the university's strengths as its partnership with a British university, flexible scheduling, technology services, and low tuition fees. Weaknesses include a limited number of majors and courses taught in English. Opportunities for growth are new branches, majors, and lower prices than other universities. Threats include strong marketing from competitors and some universities having even lower prices. The analysis evaluates these internal and external factors to understand the university's position and guide its future strategies.
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Arab Open University
Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA)
Academic Year 2016 - 2017 Semester: 1 (Fall)
Branch: Antelias Program: Business Studies Course Title: Managing in the work place Course Code: B121 Student Name: Student ID: 151292 Rafah Abdo Section Number:109 Tutor Name: Carla Bader
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The Arab Open University in Lebanon
The competition between the businesses in the market something exists anywhere , but the company must do some research and analysis for its company and its environment in order to understand the situation of the company or the business in the market and the model that focused on studying the market called swot model analysis it means the mode of studying the internal and the external factor that affect the organization from inside and outside this model consists on evaluating 4 dimension which are strengths _ weaknesses _ opportunities and the threats and this model is very important because it can reveal the negative things in the business in order to fix them and to put strategy for the future ( Marilyin Helms, 2010) . And in this research we will conduct a swot analysis for the Arab Open University in its Lebanese branch .
Firstly, I will start by discussing the strengths of the AOU IN Lebanon, the strengths of the business which are the positive things and the internal characteristic of the business that specialized in and make it do in very good way in the market and make it easy to achieve the goal of the organization (castilla.G ,2006, et al. ) one of the strength in our case is the British degree, AOU is partnership with Ou ( the open university ) in Britain and this can make the aou too much trusted from the student because it gives a very formal certificate you can use it everywhere in the world .the presence of an accreditation between Lebanese university and a European university gives an added value and a competitive advantage in comparison to another universities .Another strength is the open system which include the hour and the flexibility of the schedule this system attracts a large number of working students and married women because of its flexibility and short period of time spent at the university . In this type of systems student can easily work in part-time or full-time job .it is also very convenient with students who have strict schedules at work like the Lebanese army members or other security forces armed members . the technology services in the university are also very important srenght : the student can use the computer with free internet and you have a private account on the website of the university you can use it to study or to submit you project and to know all the news of the university . The tutorial tuition is very good comparing to other universities. The credits fees are low and there is possibility for the student to divide his payments into 4 instalments.
However, there are some weaknesses that could expose the AOU to some threats needs to be improved and replacing because they prevent the company from achieving its goal (Castilla.G, 2006, et al.) At AOU , one of the weaknesses are limited number of majors there is few of majors to study which are business and the computer and the English this can make others university have more student in comparison with Aou . Another weaknesses is the language of learning adopted to AOU: the AOU in Lebanon offers courses have very important problem which is the language of studying because the aou studies the course in the English language while there are very big number of student in Lebanon French educated this makes the French educated student moved to another university instead of aou. Thirdly, the opportunities which are the good steps that can make the business gain more and to spread in the market and sometimes the weaknesses of the competitor considered as opportunities for the business (castilla.G, 2006, et al). , and the opportunities in our case study are :First ,there is a project to open 2 new branches one in Tripoli and the other in beqaa this can allowed to the students of those region to study in the aou and makes the university to spread in the market and gain more profit . A second opportunity offered to Aou is the creation of new tracks and majors for example, the HR management and the multimedia and the investigation of the online criminal all of these tracks lead aou to increase the numbers of the student and to spread in Lebanon . the high prices of studying in others university in Lebanon constitute an opportunity for AOU because it is very important reason that lead the students to choose the aou to complete their studying because the aou considered the cheapest prices of courses in Lebanon in comparison with (LIU, NDU, AUL …..).And finally, the Difficulty of studying in Lebanese university because of the long hours that the students’ needs to spend inside the university makes a very big numbers of student to choose the aou to study at.
IN addition to , the threats are the external factors that can faces the business in the market sometimes the activity of the competitors considered as threat for your business and preventing the business from achieving the goal (castilla.G ,2006 ,et al .) and the threats of the AOU in Lebanon are mainly : The big marketing campaign of the LIU ( the Lebanese international university ) can affect in the mind of the student .Also the prices of the Lebanese university is very cheap this can makes the student chose the Lebanese university for studying Moreover , the existing of universities near the aou can attracts the student .
Finally , the swot model analysis is very important model in the field of marketing strategy because it provides information about the company by clarifying the factors into 4 categories that affect the path of the business which are the strength ,weaknesses ,opportunities ,threats and it show how the strength can lead to opportunities in the future and the weaknesses can be a threat (Ansoff ,1965 .et al )
LIST of References : _1 HELMS, M.M. and NIXON, J., 2010. Exploring SWOT analysis - where are we now? Journal of Strategy and Management, 3(3), pp. 215-251.
_2http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/xxxvi/4-c42/Papers/OBIA2006_Hay_Castilla.pdf 24/11/ 2016 at
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_3 Hay, G.J. and Castilla, G., 2006, July. Object-based image analysis: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). In Proc. 1st Int. Conf. OBIA (pp. 4-5).
_4 HELMS, M.M. and NIXON, J., 2010. Exploring SWOT analysis - where are we now? Journal of Strategy and Management, 3(3), pp. 215-251.
