Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. So how do you sell a more expensive economy car, especially one with an unfamiliar, unproven technology? A core insight provides forward-looking understanding of customer needs, behaviors, and market trends.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. Who doubts Microsoft’s technical core competencies in software, networking and gaming technologies? Incidentally, this holds true even for a quasi-Web 2.0

Core Competence 10

Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Her confession was blurted out in the midst of our first conversation about the new digital marketing strategy which we would eventually advise them on: "You know, I don''t think I believe in segmentation anymore." In others, marketers were still adamant that segmentation was the only way to go, but couldn''t explain its benefits.

Ramaswamy 10

Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 10

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Former SVP at Citi in both marketing and business development roles. Dorie Clark – Marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

We have already seen tremendous progress in a wide range of digital and technology products during the crisis, and these will continue to play a fundamental role in the recovery. “The best estimates we have suggest that for every high-technology job, five other jobs are created in the economy,” The Startup Genome report says.

Innovation 84

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 84

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”). Rapidly responding to ever-evolving competitive and market changes (perhaps a reference to Rita McGrath and Ian McMillan’s 1995 article on innovation strategy “Discovery Driven Planning” ).

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. This operational triumph is tempered, though, by Intel’s failure to capitalize on the explosive growth of the market for mobile devices. He was right.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. This operational triumph is tempered, though, by Intel’s failure to capitalize on the explosive growth of the market for mobile devices. He was right.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Social media spending?

ROE 14

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 14