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Management Module 5
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CACI, being a successful publicly held IT company based in
the UK, is currently focused on the improvement its market
position in order to maintain a highly competitive position
in the contemporary business environment. In actuality, the
position of the company on the market is stable and CACI has
good prospect for the further development. At the same time,
it is necessary to understand the fact that the competition
on the market is steadily growing and the company have to
use its full potential, eliminate its weaknesses and develop
its strengths to gain the larger share of the market and improve
its current position even more.
On analyzing strengths of CACI, it is important to underline
that the company is focused on the development of information
technologies and it pays a particular attention to the defense,
national security and intelligence-related solutions. In such
a way, the company operates in a highly technological industry
and, what is more, it is oriented on the introduction of innovations,
which is very important in the contemporary business environment
because innovations and the focus on the knowledge-based industry
allows the company to take the leading position in the market,
employ prospective specialists who are able to provide the
development of new technologies.
On the other hand, there are certain weaknesses since the
company cannot fully control all of its employees, even though
they deal with technologies and information which is, as a
rule, a top secret information. In this respect, it should
be said that some of its employees have already proved to
be irresponsible as they have been involved in the Abu Ghraib
scandal that deteriorated not only the public image of the
company but also the situation within the company. To put
it more precisely, the unethical behavior of some of its employees
undermines the entire organizational culture and reveals certain
weaknesses in the work of the company with its employees in
regard to ethical norms they should observe and basic principles
of a moral behavior.
At the same time, the company still has huge opportunities
for the further development and progress. In this respect,
it should be said that, being a state contractor, the company
can count for a long term contracts and prospects of the further
development. Obviously, in the situation when the state demand
for the services of the company grows consistently because
of the increasing threat to the national security of the US
and the UK that increases the demand for services and products
of the company which offers defense, military and intelligence
solutions. On the basis of state contracts, the company can
expand its presence in the private sector of the market.
However, the competition in the IT industry constantly grows
and the company can face serious problems, especially if it
is involved in scandals such as the one in Abu Ghraib. At
the same time, the introduction of new technologies by competitors
can deteriorate the position of the company on the market.
Thus, CACI has large opportunities for the further development
but it needs to minimize risks and threats that persist at
the moment.
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