Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. Link the New to the Old.

Prahalad 17

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Best Buy's Buyback program allows consumers to sell back their gadgets at a guaranteed price when they upgrade to a newer technology. Engaging with the BOP should not be a debate about the social obligation of the firm.

Prahalad 16

Prahalad Business Model Early Adopters Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. But according to Prahalad and Hamel, firms should set unrealistic goals, not realistic goals.

Goal 12

Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It sold this money-losing division systematically evolved itself to become, once again, a respected technology competitor. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's HBR classic Core Competence of the Corporation made popular the notion that knowing and mastering core business factors can be leveraged across products and markets.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

So how do you sell a more expensive economy car, especially one with an unfamiliar, unproven technology? After the economy-focused first generation car proved the viability of the technology, Toyota had a core insight for the second generation car that cracked this conundrum. in a new way.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Another psychological dynamic contributing to sudden vincibility is that successful business leaders usually have a strong interest in protecting their current products, customers, and investments — and therefore may unconsciously overlook or avoid trends or technologies that might threaten that base. That's why the late C.K.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Outsourcing Drucker Class 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

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. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. 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. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. He was right.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

This type of of segmentation is more important than ever as technologically empowered customers have more choice and the ability to craft their own solutions. In one presentation, we were exuberant about Big Data and Little Data, and in the next, speaking what seemed to be 1960''s voodoo psychographic language. Customers Marketing'

Ramaswamy 10

Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”). Aggressive outsourcing and partnering to improve efficiencies (perhaps a reference to “ The Origins of Strategy, published in 1989 by the granddaddy of strategy consulting, BCG founder Bruce Henderson).

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Divya Silbermann – Human resources leader at technology startups, including Facebook and Eventbrite. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer.

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

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Prahalad pointed out, the "bottom of the pyramid" is a market and not a social problem. In a recent talk at MIT, Infosys founder Narayana Murthy put it this way: "Technological innovation is all about reducing cost, reducing cycle time, making life more comfortable. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

ROE 14

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 14