This book offers two new management tools for successfully coping with the increasing complexity of doing business and gaining sustainable competitive advantages in your organization. The model of distinguishing competencies is a systematic framework which enables management to select competitive leverage and future business approaches, which will enable their organizations to quickly and efficiently turn their capabilities into distinguishing competencies and ensure competitive advantage.

1. How to achieve sustainable
competitive advantage in
your organization
2nd May 2013
Ales Stempihar
IIBA Slovenia Chapter president
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2. Truly successful organizations
make their own rules
which others have to follow.
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3. The ability to co-create changes
The ability to co-create changes and the rapid responsiveness of
an organization depends on its:
 sensibility
to the events in the environment (the ability to quickly
perceive and understand changes in the environment);
 flexibility
(the ability of fast internal transformation).
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4. The transition into a highly competitive organization
Highly competitive
(sensible and flexible)
organizations: perceive
changes and predict the
direction and size of the
required internal
changes faster than other
organizations. They also
understand changes and
respond to them with
rapid internal
transformation.
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5. Model of distinguishing competencies
It is a systematic framework
which enables management
to analyze the competitive
capabilities of its
organization and the
potentials of turning those
capabilities into
distinguishing
competencies, which will
enable an organization to
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6. Model of distinguishing competencies – the elements
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7. Model of distinguishing competencies – the key point
If the connections between
elements are properly
designed and developed, they
can interact efficiently and
create synergy, which
additionally strengthens the
performance of the model as
a whole.
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8. Leverage for achieving competitive advantages
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9. Underlying connections
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10. The influence of the competitive leverage
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11. The factors of sustainable competitive advantage
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12. Comprehensive management of competitiveness
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13. The role and importance of Business Analysis
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14. Future business approaches
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15. Where to start
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16. Through strategy innovation
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17. Positioning the core leverage for reaching
competitive advantage
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18. Presentation of authors
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