First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2014

z Nancy Tennant Open Innovation Oscar Wilde P&G Paul Schoemaker Peter Drucker Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris Procter and Gamble Saint-Gobain SPX Corporation Steve Denning Strategic Innovation: Embedding Innovation as a Core Competency in Your Organization Strategos Tao Te Ching The Drucker Foundation the ideology (..)

Prahalad 93

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Drucker 93

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. What are our core-competencies?), Expertise providers are finding that the models that they have long relied upon (e.g., Who are our competitors?

Drucker 8

Drucker Core Competence Engineering Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Peter Drucker made the point in HBR''s pages 18 years ago, writing that "Core competencies are different for every organization. But every organization needs one core competence: innovation.". We have known for a long time that innovation is the name of the game now.

Core Competence 10

Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. They assembled numerous contemporary examples of core competence, including NEC's semiconductors, Canon's microelectronics, and Honda's small-engine design.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Similarly, if you can be a Cesar Millan of machines — a digital disciplinarian who helps people get more value from their devices much the way the original helps people have healthier relationships with their dogs — you possess a core competence that virtually guarantees a high-impact professional life.

Core Competence 13

Core Competence Human Capital Technology Health Care 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. We can cure the core incompetencies of the corporation—but only with a bold and concerted effort to pull bureaucracy up by its roots. See the rest of the series here. Execution Innovation Organizational culture'

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. We can cure the core incompetencies of the corporation—but only with a bold and concerted effort to pull bureaucracy up by its roots. See the rest of the series here. Execution Innovation Organizational culture'

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9