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. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's HBR classic Core Competence of the Corporation made popular the notion that knowing and mastering core business factors can be leveraged across products and markets.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 15

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 7, 2022

Think about aspects of your organization that are unrelated to HR but still relevant to the recruiting process, such as company brand and core competencies. Consider only those factors which are relevant in the present or the very near future. Recruitment Strengths and Weaknesses.

SWOT 119

SWOT Analysis Brand Core Competence 119

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 7, 2022

Think about aspects of your organization that are unrelated to HR but still relevant to the recruiting process, such as company brand and core competencies. Consider only those factors which are relevant in the present or the very near future. Recruitment Strengths and Weaknesses.

SWOT 52

SWOT Analysis Brand Core Competence 52

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

These trends have created a void in many organizations for corporate purpose. Core competency: What do we do well that helps us meet our stakeholders’ needs? Employees want their job to make an impact and be meaningful. Making a difference” is their currency for success! Test of time: Will this be relevant years from now?

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

These trends have created a void in many organizations for corporate purpose. Used to set priorities around core competencies. Core competency: What do we do well that helps us meet our stakeholders’ needs? Employees want their job to make an impact and be meaningful. Tangible and measurable.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The latest trend in M&A these days is divestitures: larger companies selling off pieces of their business. This trend is nothing more than a normal cycle, but it is critically important to understand. Companies need to spend more time thinking about their core competencies: what they do better than anyone else.

Dunning 14

Dunning Core Competence Trends Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Amazon also has the advantage of years of consumer data, as well as the data analytics proficiency to spot trending products, make smarter pricing and assortment decisions, and deliver personalized customer experiences. Core competencies stagnate, customers become confused, and the opportunity to lead instead of follow is squandered.

IT Strategy 11

IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 11

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. in a new way. Forward-looking. Forward-looking.

Core Competence 14

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2010

As a job seeker, my advice is to not focus on one core area of expertise but think of complementary avenues you may pursue to increase your chances of finding interesting work. These alternate avenues will serve to give you added insight should you decide to return later on to your core competency.

Audience 50

Audience Newsletter Core Competence Tips 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

But in 2007, a disturbing trend developed. "We The tool, called Success Measures , allows employees to easily track their own performance through an online dashboard that aggregates client service scores, revenues, leadership, core competencies and other firm-wide initiatives. We started experiencing a rapid loss of talent.

Ryan 15

Ryan Core Competence Tools System 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

This continues a trend The Association of National Advertisers first reported in 2013. Mitch Joel , president of Mirum, recently has also noticed this movement of agency talent to the client side , calling it one of the most disruptive trends in the industry right now. But perhaps this is a healthy trend. Who owns the data?

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Trends Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The widespread adoption of machine learning may accelerate this trend. But even if health care isn’t very digital, relatively speaking, it still saw one of the largest increases in digitization between 2002 and 2016. For example, this polarization appears not just in people’s salaries, but in who, exactly, they work alongside of.

Health Care 8

Health Care Core Competence Education Technology 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It’s hard and especially in Mexico to receive feedback, bosses are way out of trends for a better management, that makes it diffcult to approach them with the intention of giving feedback. Rey Lopez: September 28, 2010 at 1:25 pm I once read the following: speak without offending, listen without defending.

Follow-up 229

Follow-up Blog Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 229

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Of course, as anyone following global trends in manufacturing, software development, and customer support well knows, outsourcing dynamics create their own dysfunctional dependencies. That's why the innovative organizations I know struggle with whether they want "crazy" as a core competence or as an accessibly outsourced option.

Outsourcing 14

Outsourcing Management Core Competence Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies. While theories and evidence against diversification emerged in the 1970s, many firms remained diversified well into the 1980s.

Influence 12

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Harnessing Trends: Spotting patterns of change that could substantially change the rules of the game. Innovation leaders pay close attention to nascent trends and discontinuities that have the potential to profoundly impact the future of an industry – changes that others often ignore until it’s too late.

Innovation 120

Innovation Business Model Franchising Trends 120

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Google Trends is fast becoming an indispensable tool for many analysts who believe — as Brin does — that the wisdom (and/or delusions) of googling crowds can successfully inform investment strategies worldwide. The company might well have given Temasek, Pimco, and Berkshire Hathaway a run for their money.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Confront Unwelcome News and Trends. Turn Courage and Candor into Core Competencies. For boards used to preserving the status quo, this shift can be uncomfortable. Here are four ways boards can become better challengers and champions of change. Changing strategy is extremely difficult, especially for successful businesses.

Retail 8

Retail CEO Core Competence Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Corporations, for the most part, aren't going to reinvent themselves by improving on the core competencies they've been honing for years. Instead, if they're going to change, they're going to do so from the outside in, allowing ideas from the edge of the company to penetrate to the core. Where does social media come in?

Media 8

Media Core Competence Operations Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

A recent Accenture report concurs, claiming that every business is now a digital business: Every industry is now software driven; as such, every company must adopt IT as one of its core competencies. Organizations that capitalize on this trend will ensure that as information eats the enterprise, they''ll be the ones satiated.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Build off its core competence, or play from weakness? The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Rivals were developing digital technology to replace the existing analog standard. Internal debate raged. Should Motorola keep its focus on analog, or switch over to digital? Or would only one survive?

Organization 8

Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

In a 2014 global survey of Human Capital Trends conducted by Deloitte , 57% of respondents said that their organizations are “weak” when it comes to helping leaders manage difficult schedules and helping employees manage information flow, and that there is an urgent need to address this challenge.

Stress 14

Stress Agility Globalization Energy 14

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 7, 2022

Think about aspects of your organization that are unrelated to HR but still relevant to the recruiting process, such as company brand and core competencies. Consider only those factors which are relevant in the present or the very near future.

SWOT 52

SWOT Analysis Brand Core Competence 52

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Well, it’s a little risky to generalize, but we can draw some conclusions by looking at some of the trends in the database I have for the 360 degree leadership survey that’s based on my book, The Next Level. They rate lower than direct reports, direct managers and the participants’ self assessments. Why is that?

Bottom-up 177

Bottom-up Short-term Executive Coaching Open-book 177

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Implementing a data-driven approach means analyzing market trends, consumer behavior, sales metrics, and other relevant data to make informed choices. It’s all about finding opportunities that align with the company’s core competencies while meeting market demands.

Tactics 107

Tactics Content Core Competence Marketing 107

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2011

Barnes & Noble (B&N), America's largest bookseller, is bucking these trends. B&N is moving boldly into this future in four ways that hold lessons for any company facing a troubled core: Competing with its legacy business: Rather than swim against the e-book tide, B&N has embraced the inevitable with its Nook readers.

Strategy 15

Strategy Retail Long-term Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The company's core competency is branding and identifying customer pain points. The trend is spreading. But a solution could come by following the example of the lean, agile, and India-based company Bharti AirTel Limited. Bharti is the largest telecommunications services provider in India. In the U.S.,

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

CO2

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Role of E-coaching in Developing Core Competencies Virtual coaching is instrumental in nurturing key leadership competencies. Adapting to Evolving Leadership Needs As the nature of work continues to evolve, so too will the skills and competencies required of leaders.

Power 78

Power Emotional Intelligence Leadership Long-term 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

By ignoring the distribution, that statistic masks a more important trend: As the McKinsey Global Institute has documented , variance in corporate earnings has increased substantially as well. ” Evidence of this trend toward greater corporate inequality has been trickling in for a while now. There’s Too Little Competition.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

How does collaboration become as much a value and a behavioral norm as a core competence and pragmatic means to creative ends? The onrushing internet of things only accelerates — or exacerbates — that trend. By emphasizing great collaborations, I inadvertently minimized and marginalized broader cultural contexts.

Technology 8

Technology Creativity Learning-by-Doing Innovation 8

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Externally, examine societal trends, political implications, technological advancements, and competitive forces. It provides the organization a way to stay focused on your core competencies and prevents you from being distracted by opportunities that do not fit your purpose. Describing why you exist as an organization.

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Harness underappreciated trends. You have to be tracking trends your competitors haven’t yet noticed, then figuring out ways of using them to upend traditional business models. To be an innovator, you don’t need a crystal ball: you need a wide-angle lens.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8