Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

Create job-success profiles: Be specific about the key skills, mindset, and core competencies required to succeed rather than itemize every skill and duty one will conceivably encounter during the workday. Specificity about what is most important will generate a smaller pool of stronger candidates who can see themselves in that job.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Hotels Skills Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Dealing well with inquiries and complaints is, of course, an essential customer engagement core competence. What's radically different from even five years ago is that, for any serious customer-centric organization, transparency around customer care is as important as the interactions themselves.

Disintermediation 15

Disintermediation Call Center Core Competence Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Talk to people in such professional service industries as private banking, auditing, consulting, even engineering, and you begin to hear concerns about the commoditization of professional knowledge. What are our core-competencies?), Far-fetched, you think? Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Who are our competitors?

Drucker 8

Drucker Core Competence Engineering Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Only the largest of enterprises could afford the best technologies, and even for those with the largest bank accounts, IT strategies were limited to basics like CRM , ERP , or email. And given the complexities involved in building up competitive IT weaponry, businesses won by out-spending and out-resourcing their opponents.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

market, its executives formulated a strategy of developing so-called clean-diesel vehicles that leveraged the company’s core competence. VW’s strategic ambition to become the largest car company in the world required it to conquer the U.S. To help VW stand out and win in the U.S.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

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. Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth.

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. Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Results from these business-to-business collaborations have at times been phenomenally successful, as was the case with the Bank of America Keep the Change program (IDEO) and the Swiffer (Continuum Innovation). Undoubtedly, not all inventions from these collaborations achieve equivalent fame, or we likely would have heard about them.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

It’s been estimated that India needs $5 trillion in infrastructure investment to sustain its economic growth, but local Indian companies lack the competencies needed. For example, telecom companies and banks are now able to open new accounts in five minutes without a single paper document.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

This segregation isn’t only about hard skills like coding, argues Bloom, pointing to a paper by Christina Håkanson of the Swedish National Bank and her colleagues. Today, much like our neighborhoods, companies seem to be more segregated by education and skill. Instead, Bloom says, GE has specialized in engineering and coding.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Because growth is unpredictable, it’s unwise to bank on a certain set of assumptions. It provides the organization a way to stay focused on your core competencies and prevents you from being distracted by opportunities that do not fit your purpose. Mission The mission statement is your statement of purpose.

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. Core Business. Enron (like many other companies) got into areas beyond their core competencies. Congressional Hearings.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

Nearly all the government spending and bank loans went to state-owned companies, strongly bolstering the state-controlled economy against the market-driven economy. They are calling for creativity and innovation to be core competencies for children. to protect the economy against the global downturn.

Policies 12

Policies Politics Core Competence Globalization 12