L E www.hbr.org The Core Competence of the Corporation by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 The Core Competence of the Corporation 15 Further Reading A list of related materials, with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Product 6528 The Core Competence of the Corporation
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CONCEPTS * Core Competencies: Collective learning in the organization, especially how to coordinate diverse production skills and integrate multiple streams of technologies. * Core competence is about harmonizing streams of technology, it is also about the organizational work and the delivery of value. * Core competence is communication, involvement, and a deep commitment to working across organizational boundaries. It involves many levels of people and all functions. * Core competence
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Core competencies, however, are characteristics of the organization as a whole. Libraries can utilize core competencies as a tool to develop and provide superior services. A description and review of the concepts of core competencies are included and a framework for their development and use is given. The concept of core competencies was developed in the management field. Prahalad and Hamel (1990) introduced the concept in a Harvard Business Review article. They wrote that a core competency is
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VIEWPOINT Core Competence, Distinctive Competence, and Competitive Advantage: What Is the Difference? ANN MOONEY STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY ABSTRACT. Core competence, distinctive competence, and competitive advantage ABSTRACT. are 3 of the most important business concepts that managers, researchers, and educators rely on for decision making, pedagogy, and research. However, little attention has been paid to defining these concepts. As a result, they have become
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competency assessment tool THE WEB-BASED CORE COMPETENCY PROFILE ASSESSMENT TOOL Colleen S. Post and Micheline L. Brunett* ABSTRACT. The Professional Development and Certification Program for the Procurement, Materiel Management and Real Property Community is a key initiative that supports the Government of Canada’s priority to strengthen and streamline government operations. The Program is designed to provide the tools to help functional specialists better serve clients and exercise higher levels
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RELEVANT TO ACCA QUALIFICATION PAPER P3 Studying Paper P3? Performance objectives 7, 8 and 9 are relevant to this exam POSITION-BASED AND RESOURCE-BASED STRATEGIES Imagine you are in the middle of a country. To your north there is a mountain range, to the south an ocean, to the west a desert and to the east, jungle. You are running out of food and have to move. But to where? So you look at whatever evidence you can get: weather forecasts, travellers’ tales, unreliable maps (because this is
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Strategic role of HRD in managing core competiencies Human resources scholars since 1980’s have attempted to define the nature and meaning of the strategic HR function. These attempts have addressed human resource management in general, as well as the HRD function in particular. More systematic attempts to define SHRD followed somewhat later. Rothwell and Kazanas (1989) applied the generic process of strategic business planning to the management of the HRD function. Obtaining strategic value
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information dissemination the user (Institute of distance and open learning, 2011). 2. 4. Core competencies
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JOURNAL FOR SESSION 3 AND 4 A major area of research in strategic management is understanding the sources of sustained competitive advantage of a firm. To develop the strategy we need to analyze the firm’s internal strength and weaknesses (resource based model) as well as the external opportunities and the threat(environmental models). Environmental model is based on heterogeneity and mobility of the resources and assumes that all firms have the same strategy and the resources are heterogenic
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Competencies for Senior Manager Roles Pradip N Khandwalla includes research articles that focus on the analysis and resolution of managerial and academic issues based on analytical and empirical or case research RESEARCH Executive Summary KEY WORDS Senior Managers Roles Managerial Competencies India This paper identifies competencies that may aid role effectiveness at senior managerial levels. It fills a research gap: while managerial roles and competencies have been studied fairly
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