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Test Your Core Competencies

CO2

I also like Hamel and Prahalad three-question test for helping clients determine if one of their capabilities is actually a core competency : Does the capability make a disproportionate contribution to the ultimate customer value, and/or does it allow the company to deliver value to customers in an appreciably more efficient way?

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Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi on “The Coherence Premium”

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Bob''s blog entries “The Core Competence of the Corporation” Booz & Company C.K. Prahalad Gary Hamel Harvard Business Review HBR Blog Network HBR email alerts Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi on "The Coherence Premium"'

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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 […]. Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein Apple Berkeley Booth School of Business Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville C.K.

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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

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. 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.

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Do Customers Even Care about Your Core Competence?

Harvard Business Review

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. It needs to shed a few divisions and find and focus on an integrative core competence.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Take Hamel and Prahalad's 1990 HBR article, "The Core Competence of the Corporation," which suggests that firms should identify some activity at which they already excel or could plausibly excel in the future, and make that the centerpiece of their strategy. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add?