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Test Your Core Competencies

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I also like Hamel and Prahalad three-question test for helping clients determine if one of their capabilities is actually a core competency : Does the capability make a disproportionate contribution to the ultimate customer value, and/or does it allow the company to deliver value to customers in an appreciably more efficient way?

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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part Two

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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part One

First Friday Book Synopsis

His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […]. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K.

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Beyond Core Competence

Harvard Business Review

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. To survive, it has stopped selling film cameras, focusing on the digital ones that dominate the market. Organizations such as IBM and GE have adapted over the years to remain competitive in the market.

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Do Customers Even Care about Your Core Competence?

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. It needs to shed a few divisions and find and focus on an integrative core competence. The customer is the ultimate beneficiary of these enhanced core competencies—not the driver or determinant.

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Three Questions to Jump-Start Your Company's Growth

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad laid out their view in the Harvard Business Review classic "Core Competence of the Corporation." While it's next to impossible to innovate faster than the market, it is possible to innovate better that the market. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

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Three Questions to Jump-Start Your Company's Growth

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad laid out their view in the Harvard Business Review classic "Core Competence of the Corporation." While it's next to impossible to innovate faster than the market, it is possible to innovate better that the market. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

Company 15