Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad laid out their view in the Harvard Business Review classic "Core Competence of the Corporation." While it's next to impossible to innovate faster than the market, it is possible to innovate better that the market. Luckily, strategists have studied the "what makes you special" question for some time.

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Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

This is especially problematic when companies decide to innovate. If you don't have a clear understanding of why you are pursuing an innovation, you risk being wasteful and ineffective, and could lack strong differentiators from incumbents. What are our core insights that will lead us to market-shaping innovations?"

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. Strategy gets set at the top. Power trickles down.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. Strategy gets set at the top. Power trickles down.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". This term comes from The World Database of Innovation, a collaboration between my company, Innovators International, and the CTOs of our member companies.

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And in terms of its effects on managerial decision-making, the new system should create feedback and incentives that nudge managers toward innovating for tomorrow's world, not optimizing for today's. An innovation-based measure would lead to an acceleration in investment with positive benefits for growth. As the late C.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

As recently as March 2015, for instance, Rebecca Homkes and Don and Charles Sull said in “ Why Strategy Execution Unravels – and What to Do About it ”: “Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is.”

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