Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

AQ is defined as “the ability to adjust course, product, service, and strategy in response to unanticipated changes in the market”— and indeed, the Harvard Business Review characterised it as “the new competitive advantage.” They study the “underdogs,” the new market entrants, and quickly learn from them.

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Leadership Leadership Styles Hotels Core Competence 154

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2014

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services […]. He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation.

Prahalad 93

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Drucker 93

Lead from Within

JUNE 12, 2024

The workforce is transforming at an unprecedented pace, driven by technological advancements and shifting market demands. Leverage Technology for Training: Utilize e-learning platforms and technologies to deliver flexible and accessible training. It is the pivotal strategy to future-proof their organizations.

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Strategy Core Competence Skills Career 118

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Transformational strategies, by contrast, require a company to use inadequate information to make timely options-based decisions about product or market priorities, investments in technology, the configuration of business systems, and industry partnerships.

Operations 98

Operations Strategy Core Competence McKinsey 98

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

This flexibility is precious in today’s fast-paced business environment, where organizations must adapt rapidly to changing market conditions. They stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes that can impact businesses.

Consultative 221

Consultative Organization Self-aware Objective 221

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services and transportation companies. His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […].

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Wilde 75

Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

An organization that is nimble has the modernized and matured their practices related to people, processes, technologies, ecosystems, and strategy such that they can seize opportunities as they present themselves and stave off issues that present themselves more readily, as each will be presented more quickly than in the past.

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Company How To Core Competence Venture Capitalist 103

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2021

A lot goes into running a business, and you have to separate your core competencies and other services that boost productivity. With a reliable IT expert, you’ll get high-level customer service, up-to-date information on the latest technology, solutions to current problems, and quick response times. To avoid this.

Supply Chain 76

Supply Chain Outsourcing Core Competence How To 76

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

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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Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 15

The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 22, 2016

What % of your new business is coming from your core competencies? What % requires capabilities beyond your core? If not, is it a market issue, a competitive issue, a behavioral issue or something else preventing you? However, markets change and so must your path to future growth. Healthy vs. unhealthy growth? .

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Company Leadership Long-term Short-term 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

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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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 10

HR Digest

MAY 15, 2023

They help you identify your core competencies, transferable skills, and areas where you can further develop your expertise. In today’s rapidly evolving job market, professional self-assessment tools are invaluable resources for staying ahead of the curve.

Tools 59

Tools Career Self-aware Core Competence 59

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Externally, examine societal trends, political implications, technological advancements, and competitive forces. It provides the organization a way to stay focused on your core competencies and prevents you from being distracted by opportunities that do not fit your purpose. Describing why you exist as an organization.

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Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Core competency: What do we do well that helps us meet our stakeholders’ needs? Test of time: Will this be relevant years from now?

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Used to set priorities around core competencies. Core competency: What do we do well that helps us meet our stakeholders’ needs?

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2023

The pace of change and rise of global winner-take-all competition means that conventional product-market-structure approaches to strategy, as well as core competencies thinking, are difficult to implement in practice and may yield misleading answers.

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Core Competence Uncertainty Strategy Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. I call these types of insights core insights, a concept which I first introduced in my book, Innovation X. But whereas core competencies are about know-how, core insights are about know-why.

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

To do this, Goldman used its competencies in understanding markets, convening needed expertise and business networks. Goldman used its power to scale to get to market quickly, assembling a pipeline of services, investing in sophisticated measurement systems and developing a global core curriculum.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

Chief Technology Officer 15

Chief Technology Officer Constraint Bottom-up CTO 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

R&D and marketing typically come at product development from different angles, and R&D’s “things” approach is often at odds with marketing’s “people” focus. In companies where R&D is very powerful, marketers can sometimes be heard complaining about products that are hard to understand and use.

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Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The algorithms, software and massively parallel architectures underlying the Jeopardy -winning technology's design are undeniably important, he says. Tomorrow's technologies are increasingly about their ability to learn from you and your ability to effectively train them.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Human Capital Technology Training 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

It’s hard to say, since a lot of other things happened in those same decades: the decline of unions, an explosion of information technology, a new round of globalization, and the dramatic rise in CEO pay. First, the catering companies hired employees at the going market rate, without any wage premium. In 1950 the economist S.H.

Company 14

Company Core Competence Outsourcing Restructuring 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” Entrants may target over-looked segments of the market with a product considered inferior by incumbent’s most-demanding customers and later move up-market as their product improves. A prime example is Netflix.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. The World Economic Forum predicts that “by 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today.”

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Company Insurance Engineering Software 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. Core competencies stagnate, customers become confused, and the opportunity to lead instead of follow is squandered.

IT Strategy 15

IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. Several portal companies compete with carriers as they have acquired "voice-over-internet" capabilities. Skype , for example, competes with fixed-line carriers by offering free mobile Skype calls.

Outsourcing 12

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device. Cisco's leadership is very smart and Wi-Fi is part of the firm's core competence. Technology couldn't have been the issue. Smartphones were becoming smarter.

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Wireless Management Telecommunications Core Competence 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Invention is a novel idea or new technology that can be patented or copyrighted as intellectual property (IP).

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Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Is your firm ready for this new age of peer-to-peer marketing? How long does it take our social media, PR or marketing people to find our customer advocates when they're needed to rebut a critique or attack, or talk to a media interviewer? Let's say you're preparing for a major product or service launch.

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Reference Tips Media Case Study 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You are confident that your skills and competencies make you valuable and marketable and that you can access opportunities through your network. Using his respected industry knowledge, market insight, and professional network, he developed a proposal to create a solution architect. You work with people who energize you.

Career 15

Career Self-aware Proposal Core Competence 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Is your firm ready for this new age of peer-to-peer marketing? How long does it take our social media, PR or marketing people to find our customer advocates when they're needed to rebut a critique or attack, or talk to a media interviewer? Let's say you're preparing for a major product or service launch.

Reference 15

Reference Tips Media Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

By leveraging connected mobile devices such as smartphones, existing in-venue Wi-Fi networks, low cost Bluetooth-enabled beacons, and a handful of other technologies, location analytics vendors have made it possible to get location analytics solutions up and running fast at a minimal cost. Marketing. Retail Technology'

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Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Twitter, for example, sells access to a range of real-time APIs to marketing platforms, but the price point often exceeds researchers’ budgets. Further, the greater the awareness of your type of technology in the community, the larger the market is likely to actually be. Porter and Mark R.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Information 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

But Thomson Reuters Foundation took a different tack in its response, going beyond donating to leverage its parent company's core competencies in information and the legal industry to catalyze change. Lives were saved and suffering was eased through those gifts. Take Cisco.

Porter 15

Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs I have worked with have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. Core Competencies. Company Fit.

Products 8

Products Productivity Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points. Similarly, marketing loves the virality that social media and network effects facilitate.

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Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 9