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Three Questions to Jump-Start Your Company's Growth

Harvard Business Review

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. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

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Three Questions to Jump-Start Your Company's Growth

Harvard Business Review

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. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

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Compete on Know-Why, Not Know-How

Harvard Business Review

They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. I call these types of insights core insights, a concept which I first introduced in my book, Innovation X. But whereas core competencies are about know-how, core insights are about know-why.

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Patagonia's Provocative Black Friday Campaign

Harvard Business Review

Sisodia , he states that mission-led businesses outperform the market by an astounding 9:1 ratio (that's innovation by any measure at 1111%). You might also ask, "How can they claim a success when more product was consumed?". and What are our Core Competencies? In a study by Dr. Rajendra S.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

Focusing on a few key success factors, critical resources, and core competencies (maybe a reference to C. Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”). A tour de force by any measure, “What Is Strategy?” But it was far from the final word.