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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

What’s changed in recent times, thanks to social media, is the reach of networking externally. Key here is to figure out what are the core competencies of the organization — those that can’t be let go without it ceasing to be a viable enterprise. Networking outward Networking is hardly new. Structuring in Sevens.

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Why Strategy Withstands the Test of Time

In the CEO Afterlife

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. Social media is a new model in which brand positioning is not only misunderstood, it is ignored. The fallout? Great strategies enhance expertise.

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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. When was the last time you entered a new market? Has your business embraced social media?

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How To Discover Your Organization’s Next Big Growth Opportunities

Tanveer Naseer

Rather than developing a narrow self-image that pigeonholes a firm in a particular market sector, or locks it up in a certain product or service category, radical innovators are able to stretch the way they define their business based on its collection of core competencies and strategic assets.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. They were using sort of these old models of that’s not a fear, that’s not core, that’s not our core competency, etc.

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Who’s Managing Your Company’s Network Effects?

Harvard Business Review

IT may understand the underlying software, algorithms and digital media. Similarly, marketing loves the virality that social media and network effects facilitate. Network effects are media and mechanism for making colleagues, customers, clients, channels, partners and suppliers more valuable.