N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Why did American auto-makers lose their once dominant position to their European and Asian counterparts? One of the challenges with disruption is the 'cultural' balancing act required to attend to a core competency (primary revenue driver) while simultaneously recognizing that disruption must occur at the borders.

Business Model 305

Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Does business school education really shape students’ minds and behaviors many years later, when they’ve reached decision-making positions at major corporations and financial institutions? In another supplementary analysis, we used the rankings of finance departments in business schools. corporations was so slow.

Influence 12

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As Deere’s strategy has shifted, so have the business-critical roles at the company—from traditional manufacturing positions to analytics and services roles. And a new ecosystem of finance, insurance, energy, infotainment and maintenance services has emerged based on the data-driven, app economy.

Company 12

Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Modern design schools increasingly encourage this, demanding that graduates be familiar not just with a traditional creative skillset, but with ethnography, finance, coding, and a host of other competencies. In practice, it often means defining a new position.

Management 8

Management Creativity Licensing Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

With the company's retail insights into the browsing, shopping, and purchasing behaviors of its customers, its views into entrepreneurial investment through its Web Services offering, and its Kindle and Fire media consumption devices, Amazon is extraordinarily well-positioned to strategically invest in explicit companies or particular sectors.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Prospective customers offered positive feedback about the office space, so they knew it wasn’t over the top or below an expected standard. What is your business’ core competence? Several clients followed them, and within a year, they could afford to add more staff. How can you focus your spending on that?

Strategy 8

Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Biocon's core competency lies in building and orchestrating global innovation networks — the cornerstone of a polycentric innovation model. In this fluid system, Biocon finances CMI's inventive R&D, while using the funds from the Pfizer deal to finance its own R&D and go-to-market activities.

Shaw 13

Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 13