Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

Howard Yu explains in Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied , how a business can shield itself from copycats. In other words, core competencies turned into core rigidities, preventing the firm from responding appropriately to the strategic threat Yamaha posed.”.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Plenty of core competencies will remain essential skills for leaders in the future. That means if you know how to mentor people, engage your team, be transparent with your staff, and guide your team through changes, you’ll be an asset in any organizational context. Ingenuity.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 20, 2016

Most of these opportunities fall outside of the core competency of the company and/or the positioning of the brand. Business Models Change and So do Core Competencies. When social media types talk strategy, they talk media strategy – who to target, how to reach the target, and how to maximize engagement.

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

Plenty of core competencies will remain essential skills for leaders in the future. That means if you know how to mentor people, engage your team, be transparent with your staff, and guide your team through changes, you’ll be an asset in any organizational context. Ingenuity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Yet what is unclear to most is how to actually create new business opportunities out of these societal and environmental challenges. Connecting such external challenges with internal core competencies may not be obvious or evident. This is were cutting-edge innovation comes into play.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. They have gone through different cycles of disruptive innovations, leaving some businesses, and creating new ones. And the ability to do that may become a new core competence.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 12, 2016

How To Lead With A Maker’s Mindset. We’re unsure of how to proceed and what we’re doing. Look to companies outside of the organization’s market… And steal from them – Every organization has their core competencies. Or maybe their core business is selling computer software.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2024

This domain is true strategic foresight: a disciplined and systematic approach to identify where to play, how to win in the future, and how to ensure organizational resiliency in the face of unforeseen disruption.

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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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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

You will also be competing to retain talented employees that other companies would like to lure away. What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? What about competing to maintain key business relationships with vendors, suppliers, partners and the like?

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 11, 2011

These are the core competencies of learning, growing organizations: Formulating strategy. Cultivating innovation. Learning how to continually improve performance. Developing goals that can lead an organization. Creating initiatives and projects that support the goals. Developing activity plans and monitoring progress.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

How to Execute Great Ideas [link] # strategy #entrepreneurship #. Beyond Core Competence via HBR [link] # strategy #vision #. RT @ DorothyDalton : Excellent – how to gauge opportunity! From Trash Cans to Nokia: Is Creativity Innovation? link] # innovation (via @ KatriK ) #. link] via @ TanveerNaseer #.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

.” Yet, despite the unprecedented scope and momentum of digitization, many decision makers remain unsure how to cope, and turn to scholars for guidance on how to approach disruption. ” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Last month, we learned about Geneca's journey into creating a culture of innovation within the company. Cause marketing, she said, was going in a new direction: Leveraging core competencies to make a positive difference in the community, on employees and the bottom line. Just goes to show what great leadership can do!

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.” Core competency: What do we do well that helps us meet our stakeholders’ needs? greater revenue growth 34.7%

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.” Used to set priorities around core competencies. Core competency: What do we do well that helps us meet our stakeholders’ needs?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The innovator's quest has been to find the win-win proposition: a great new product that can create differentiated value for consumers while supporting differentiated profits for the producer. The innovator's job is now to create wins across the board. MORE ON KNOCKING DOWN BARRIERS TO INNOVATION. Apple crafted a win-win-win.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. But as execution capabilities become commodities, and the life cycles of new offerings get increasingly shorter, it’s precisely these innovation skills that need to be learned.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs I have worked with have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. Core Competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

A few decades ago, companies were struggling with how to measure and reward individual performance. At the same time, compensating people for collaboration can be tricky, says Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

Turns out a lot of its management tools focus on some pretty basic stuff, like how to run meetings, have conversations, and set goals. Without building the core competencies that allow those practices to work, all you’ve got is something that sounds good on paper. All that innovation is good for the broader economy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

To pursue a knowledge network strategy, you have to first map your critical knowledge assets, then decide how to deploy them strategically. Strategic knowledge mapping helps you decide which knowledge assets to share, and then how to connect these shared assets with the tacit knowledge only you possess.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Shortly after the elimination of Geography here at Harvard, the discipline underwent a quantitative and computational revolution that eventually produced innovations like Google Maps and global positioning systems, to name just two. The problem is simple: not enough people know how to make maps or handle spatial data sets.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

In other words, opportunistically managing collective intelligence is not enough; smart leaderships need to rethink how to collectively manage collective intelligence. How should organizations design and manage their networks of network effects? Can your organization do that without a Chief Network Effects Officer?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Programming — or learning how to use — your digital devices is yesterday's paradigm. The locus of value creation is shifting away from assembling innovative ensembles of technology and towards training those ensembles to be smarter than you are. You need to learn how to help your machines learn if you want to succeed.

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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. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Most of us grew up in and around organizations that fit a common template. This is a conceit.

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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. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Most of us grew up in and around organizations that fit a common template. This is a conceit.

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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. Yet she is still emphatically a designer at the core, and respectful of the creative expertise around her. The Master Craftsman.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

With technology and business model cycles becoming shorter and companies facing unrelenting pressure to innovate or suffer the consequences, more and more boards need to focus on the second of these roles. Turn Courage and Candor into Core Competencies.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

In How to Handle 3 Kinds of Conflict , Dan shows you how to be more effective next time conflict arises. The Workplace Environment: Culture, Change, Innovation, and Empowerment. He offers helpful advice on how we can get better at recognizing the value of new ideas when they are presented. In Networking Not Working?

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