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Test Your Core Competencies

CO2

Rather than focus on what they do well , they do all that they can –either because that’s the industry norm, “that’s the way we’ve always done it,” or because they don’t see the harm. The harm comes from taking resources away from what their customers consider to be core offerings.

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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part Two

First Friday Book Synopsis

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services […]. He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation.

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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part One

First Friday Book Synopsis

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services and transportation companies. His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […]. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K.

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Beyond Core Competence

Harvard Business Review

The Eastman Kodak Company was an iconic industry leader. But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. And the ability to do that may become a new core competence. For decades, it was synonymous with photography. But it arrived late.

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Three Questions to Jump-Start Your Company's Growth

Harvard Business Review

I innocently follow up by asking the last time an industry upstart called looking to license a corporate brand (typical answer: never). Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad laid out their view in the Harvard Business Review classic "Core Competence of the Corporation." The next contender is typically scale.

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Three Questions to Jump-Start Your Company's Growth

Harvard Business Review

I innocently follow up by asking the last time an industry upstart called looking to license a corporate brand (typical answer: never). Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad laid out their view in the Harvard Business Review classic "Core Competence of the Corporation." The next contender is typically scale.

Company 15
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Compete on Know-Why, Not Know-How

Harvard Business Review

I call these types of insights core insights, a concept which I first introduced in my book, Innovation X. Core insights are a complement to the familiar notion of core competencies , which were first advocated by Gary Hamel and the late C.K. The answer was to shift the focus from "economy" to "environment.".