Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. It needs to shed a few divisions and find and focus on an integrative core competence. The customer is the ultimate beneficiary of these enhanced core competencies—not the driver or determinant.

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. Link the New to the Old.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

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.".

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14