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Compete on Know-Why, Not Know-How

Harvard Business Review

They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. When combined with a smart marketing campaign, the car became a symbol of the whole environmental movement. Too often I find that companies don't have a clear enough sense of why they do what they do.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. Managers assess performance. Architecture.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. Managers assess performance. Architecture.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Conversely, why market cigarettes? We think there's more to business success — and that something as straightforward as a simple equation could put capitalism on a better path. (GM DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did.

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