R-002-006 SWOT and CAME analysis_2023_001
Definitions
SWOT
SWOT analysis is a framework for identifying and analyzing an organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
CAME
CAME (Correct; Adapt to; Maintain; Explore) is the tool that will help us put into practice what was obtained in the SWOT analysis. We are going to correct weaknesses, face threats from the environment; we are going to maintain the strengths and finally we are going to explore the opportunities.
Threads
External risks that we do not have direct control over.
SWOT analysis
Weakness
- W1. The company is very young.
- W2. Low awareness of potential customers of the company's existence.
- W3. Online web presence could be improved.
- W4. Not enough marketing materials to influence the different stages of the sales funnel, especially:
- W4.1. Lead generation stage.
- W4.2. Sales stage.
- W5. The sales team is too small.
- W6. Few people leading many areas and tasks.
- W7. Reduced team to cover all developments and market demand.
- W8. The team has not enough experience in the sector.
- W9. Not enough use cases to help understand product implementation and facilitate closing with potential customers.
Threads
- T1. There are already other competing companies with greater positioning/trajectory in the market.
- T2. Competing companies could copy our value proposition
- T3. Risk of being penalized by regulatory limits for claims that can be made when marketing the product.
- T4. Difficulty in complying with GDPR and privacy and related regulations.
- T4.1. ISO / IEC 27001.
- T4.2. UNE-EN 15713: 2010.
- T5. Being copied by a large pharmaceutical company.
- T6. Due to being new solutions in the market, there is a limited understanding and interest in understand regulatory aspects by our clients
- T7. Failure to provide sufficient clinical evidence of product claims.
- T8. Delay in obtaining MDR certification due to lack of availability of notified bodies
- T9. Difficulty in accessing international markets due to different requirements:
- T9.1 USA market
- T9.2 UK market
Strengths
- S1. The product is co-developed and validated with specialists/end users and responds to real needs.
- S2. The leadership team knows the competition very well and knows how to differentiate itself.
- S3. The company has a differential and validated value proposition
- S4. The technology for disease tracking or severity classification is very novel, pioneering and the company is the leading technology figure.
- S5. Competition is patient-centered, not physician-centered.
- S6. Competition is only diagnosis-centered, not severity-centered.
- S7. The team has a lot of knowledge of the market needs.
- S8. The team has a leading team expert in technology development.
- S9. We are a company that documents all knowledge and automates many processes; which helps to learn and go faster
- S10. We are a company that creates and documents good practices to improve the work process in all areas.
Opportunities
- O1. Reduced number of specialists and cannot cover all the demand
- O2. The specialists are focusing more on aesthetics than on the medical care
- O3. Growing demand due to the increase of skin diseases in the population
- O4. Care providers need to automate and digitize processes
- O5. Need for care providers to reduce the error rate of referrals to specialists
- O6. Need to improve patient adherence to treatment in order to improve results
- O7. Greater focus on value-based medicine with the need for real-world data evidence.
- O8. Pharmaceutical companies need to improve processes to accelerate the launch of new drugs
- O9. The global pandemic has increased and accelerated the digitalization in healthcare and the need for the product.
- O10. Technology adoption is increasing in day-to-day healthcare.
- O11. Market with a very low saturation rate.
- O12. Continuously growing market with very good future prospects.
- O13. The product can be expanded to new markets. Additional departments: allergy, head and neck, primary care, wounds.
- O14. Scientific publications in dermatological and AI journals.
CAME analysis
Correct
- C1. That at least the key decision-making members understand very well the value proposition and the competitive advantages of the product with respect to competitors in order to improve decision making.
- C2. According to the needs and growth of the company; have a more specialized team with greater knowledge of the sector.
- C3. Improve leadership; more experts who can lead departments instead of having the same people leading many areas; in order to streamline and improve processes.
- C4. Have enough financial coverage to improve business development and carry out large-scale development of the planned developments that help us cover the market demand and don’t let competitors win the market.
- C5. Have a better organization and improve the process of the business development.
- C6. Improve the strategy to improve the presence of the brand in the sector
- C7. Use of SEO tools to increase online presence.
- C8. Generate more evidence and build use cases that make it easier for the target to understand the implementation and advantages of the product
Adapt
- A1. Study, knowledge and compliance with the regulations that apply to your product, considered a medical device.
- A2. Expert advice on GDPR and MDR.
- A2.1 Obtain ISO 27001 certification
- A3. Intellectual property strategy of the company to protect its Know How.
- A4. Technology Watch and continuous R&D
- A5. Sign a contract with a NB and have all the documentation prepared (Objectives 1 & 2).
- A6. International market:
- A6.1. Obtain FDA approval
- A6.2. Registration at the MHRA (Objective 6)
Maintain
- M1. Key partnerships with customers, suppliers, medical and patient associations for the product improvement and brand positioning.
- M2. Continuous training and technology watch.
- M3. Generate new alliances with prestigious universities, governmental institutions and environmental associations.
- M4. Develop new functionalities that will allow the platform to continue to grow in the services it offers and to increase the automatisms for proposing interventions.
- M5. Continue the good practices, know-how documentation and process automation (Objective 3)
- M6. Keep updated with market and competitors.
Explore
- E1: Identify new ways that facilitate the positioning of Legit.Health as a benchmark in AI for skin conditions.
- E2: Potential distributors in new markets to accelerate the entry.
- E3: Generate evidence and use cases by directly offering dermatological services.
Record signature meaning
- Author: JD-004 María Diez
- Review and approval: JD-001 Andy Aguilar