Core competencies are a firm's unique skills and abilities that distinguish it in the marketplace. They fulfill three criteria: provide access to markets, contribute significantly to customer benefits, and are difficult for competitors to imitate. The document discusses how core competencies facilitate strategy, innovation, and competitive advantage. It provides examples of companies like Apple, 3M, and Starbucks that have differentiated themselves through core competencies. The core competence model outlines how resources, capabilities, competitive advantage, and strategy are related. Management must identify and build upon a company's core competencies to develop successful long-term strategies.
Core competency is a concept in management theory introduced by, C. K. PRAHALAD and GARY HAMEL.
It can be defined as "a harmonized combination of multiple resources and skills that distinguish a firm in the marketplace“
Core competency are the skills, characteristics, and assets that set your company apart from competitors.
They are the fuel for innovation and the roots of competitive advantage.
The engine for new business development, underlying component of a company’s competitive advantage created from the coordination, integration and harmonization of diverse skills and multiple streams of technologies.
The Concept
A stable strategy arises out of a basic perception by the management that the firm should concentrate on using its present resources for developing its competitive strength in particular market areas.
In simple words, stability strategy refers to the company’s policy of continuing the same business and with the same objectives
A firm pursues stability strategy when
1. It continues to serve the public in the same product or service, market, and function sectors as defined in its business definition.
2. Its main strategic decisions focus on incremental improvement of functional performance.
2. Corporate Restructuring is the process of redesigning one or more aspects of a company.
3. The process of reorganizing a company may be implemented due to a number of different factors, such as positioning the company to be more competitive, surviving a currently adverse economic climate, or acting on the self confidence of the corporation to move in an entirely new direction.
Corporate level strategies are basically about the choice of direction that a firm adopts in order to achieve its objectives.
Corporate strategy is essentially a blueprint for the growth of the firm.
The corporate strategy sets the overall direction for the organization to follow.
It also spells out the extent, pace and timing of the firm’s growth.
An Organization Should Approach All Tasks With The Idea That They Can Be Accomplished In A Superior Fashion
An organization capability refers to the way systems and people in the organization work together to get things done. The way leaders foster shared mindsets, orchestrate talent, encourage speed of change, collaborate across boundaries, and learn and hold each other accountable define the company's culture and leadership edge.
The firm’s ability to manage people
to gain competitive advantage.
• focuses on internal processes and systems for meeting customer needs
• creates organization-specific competencies that provide competitive advantage since they are unique
• ensures that employee skills and efforts are directed toward achieving organizational goals and strategies
A document issued by a recognized agency, and dealing with design and safety requirements relating to a specific product.
EXAMPLES
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (051-IA) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
OSHA standards are generally legally binding for an employer,
while ANSI standards are generally of an advisory nature. set industry standards with input from industry representatives and consumers.
“ Value Chain Analysis (VCA) is a process where a firm identifies its primary and support activities that add to its final product and then analysis to reduce costs or increase differentiation.”
“ Value Chain represents the internal activities a firm engages in when transforming inputs into outputs.”
Organizational Appraisal is the process of monitoring an organization’s internal environment to identify strengths and weaknesses that may influence the firms ability to achieve GOALS. It include identifying strengths and weaknesses.
A document issued by a recognized agency, and dealing with design and safety requirements relating to a specific product.
EXAMPLES
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (051-IA) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
OSHA standards are generally legally binding for an employer,
while ANSI standards are generally of an advisory nature. set industry standards with input from industry representatives and consumers.
A measurement of the quality
of an organization's policies, products, programs, strategies, etc., and their comparison with standard measurements, or similar measurements of its peers.
Professor Michael Porter suggested three general positioning strategies to achieve competitive advantage :
Low Cost Leadership Strategy
Differentiation Strategy
Focus Strategy
The Generic Competitive Strategy (GCS) is a methodology designed to provide companies with a strategic plan to compete .The GCS is useful when a company is looking to gain an advantage over a competitor
Strategic formulation in Strategic managementYamini Kahaliya
This presentation is on Strategy formulation(of subject strategic management) and it covers following points :-
Define strategy formulation
Need of strategy formulation
Steps of strategy formulation
Problems in strategy formulation
Levels of strategy
Core competency is a concept in management theory introduced by, C. K. PRAHALAD and GARY HAMEL.
It can be defined as "a harmonized combination of multiple resources and skills that distinguish a firm in the marketplace“
Core competency are the skills, characteristics, and assets that set your company apart from competitors.
They are the fuel for innovation and the roots of competitive advantage.
The engine for new business development, underlying component of a company’s competitive advantage created from the coordination, integration and harmonization of diverse skills and multiple streams of technologies.
The Concept
A stable strategy arises out of a basic perception by the management that the firm should concentrate on using its present resources for developing its competitive strength in particular market areas.
In simple words, stability strategy refers to the company’s policy of continuing the same business and with the same objectives
A firm pursues stability strategy when
1. It continues to serve the public in the same product or service, market, and function sectors as defined in its business definition.
2. Its main strategic decisions focus on incremental improvement of functional performance.
2. Corporate Restructuring is the process of redesigning one or more aspects of a company.
3. The process of reorganizing a company may be implemented due to a number of different factors, such as positioning the company to be more competitive, surviving a currently adverse economic climate, or acting on the self confidence of the corporation to move in an entirely new direction.
Corporate level strategies are basically about the choice of direction that a firm adopts in order to achieve its objectives.
Corporate strategy is essentially a blueprint for the growth of the firm.
The corporate strategy sets the overall direction for the organization to follow.
It also spells out the extent, pace and timing of the firm’s growth.
An Organization Should Approach All Tasks With The Idea That They Can Be Accomplished In A Superior Fashion
An organization capability refers to the way systems and people in the organization work together to get things done. The way leaders foster shared mindsets, orchestrate talent, encourage speed of change, collaborate across boundaries, and learn and hold each other accountable define the company's culture and leadership edge.
The firm’s ability to manage people
to gain competitive advantage.
• focuses on internal processes and systems for meeting customer needs
• creates organization-specific competencies that provide competitive advantage since they are unique
• ensures that employee skills and efforts are directed toward achieving organizational goals and strategies
A document issued by a recognized agency, and dealing with design and safety requirements relating to a specific product.
EXAMPLES
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (051-IA) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
OSHA standards are generally legally binding for an employer,
while ANSI standards are generally of an advisory nature. set industry standards with input from industry representatives and consumers.
“ Value Chain Analysis (VCA) is a process where a firm identifies its primary and support activities that add to its final product and then analysis to reduce costs or increase differentiation.”
“ Value Chain represents the internal activities a firm engages in when transforming inputs into outputs.”
Organizational Appraisal is the process of monitoring an organization’s internal environment to identify strengths and weaknesses that may influence the firms ability to achieve GOALS. It include identifying strengths and weaknesses.
A document issued by a recognized agency, and dealing with design and safety requirements relating to a specific product.
EXAMPLES
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (051-IA) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
OSHA standards are generally legally binding for an employer,
while ANSI standards are generally of an advisory nature. set industry standards with input from industry representatives and consumers.
A measurement of the quality
of an organization's policies, products, programs, strategies, etc., and their comparison with standard measurements, or similar measurements of its peers.
Professor Michael Porter suggested three general positioning strategies to achieve competitive advantage :
Low Cost Leadership Strategy
Differentiation Strategy
Focus Strategy
The Generic Competitive Strategy (GCS) is a methodology designed to provide companies with a strategic plan to compete .The GCS is useful when a company is looking to gain an advantage over a competitor
Strategic formulation in Strategic managementYamini Kahaliya
This presentation is on Strategy formulation(of subject strategic management) and it covers following points :-
Define strategy formulation
Need of strategy formulation
Steps of strategy formulation
Problems in strategy formulation
Levels of strategy
Management Strategy: The Core Competence of the Corporation.
Based on Harvard Business Review with same title article written by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel
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Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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2. What is Core Competencies??
A core competency is a concept in management
theory and can be defined as "a harmonized
combination of multiple resources and skills that
distinguish a firm in the marketplace".
Core competencies fulfill three criteria:
Provides potential access to a wide variety of markets.
Should make a significant contribution to the perceived
customer benefits of the end product.
Difficult to imitate by competitors.
3. Facilitates strategy development
Long term competitive advantage
Outsourcing non-core activities
Encourages innovation
An attribute valued by market
Need for Core Competencies
4. Examples
APPLE- Rich design and user experience
3M- Competencies in substrates, coatings, and
adhesives
CANON- Differentiated itself from Xerox
DOMINOS- Integrating multi-channel systems
STARBUCKS- Localized customer experience
6. The Core Competence Model comprises four core
competences:
1. Resources-These are the sources for the development and
acquisition of skills and technologies.
2. Capabilities-The various possibilities to build core
competences.
3. Competitive advantage-The challenge to acquire and
develop the largest possible market share of core products.
4. Strategy-The strategy to develop the largest possible
market share of finished products.
7.
8. ( as the image is self explanatory we will tell the people
to explain each quadrant)
10. Outline of the Article
The article emphasizes the importance of core
competence of a corporation and asks management to
develop their organization based on core competence
Rethinking the Corporation
The Roots of Competitive Advantage
How Not to Think of Competence
Identifying Core Competencies – And Losing Them
From Core Competencies to Core Products
The Tyranny of the SBU
Developing Strategic Architecture
Redeploying to Exploit Competencies
11. Rethinking the Corporation
“The critical task for management is to create an
organization capable of infusing products with
irresistible functionality or better, creating products that
customers need but have not yet even imagined.”
12. GTE vs. NEC Example
GTE NEC
Industry
Position 1980
• Sales $9.98B, Net Cash Flow $1.73B
• Well positioned to become major player in
information technology industry
• Active in telecommunications
• Sales $3.8 B
• Comparable technological base and computer
business
• No experience in telecommunications
Management
Concepts
• No strategic intent or architecture Senior
Managers continued to function as
individual business units
• Strategic Focus to bridge gap between
telecommunications and office automation
• Focused on - Semiconductors
• “C&C” – Computing and Communications
Committee
Business Moves • Divested Sylvania TV and Telenet
• Joint Ventures for switching, transmission
and digital PABX Closed down
semiconductors
• Consolidated position in mainframe
computers
• Moved beyond switching and transmission to
include mobile phones, fax machines
Industry
Position 1988
• Sales $16.46B
• Telephone operating company with position
in defense and lighting
• Sales $21.89 B
• World leader in semiconductors and first-tier
in telecommunications
13. Roots of Competitive Advantage
“The diversified corporation is a large tree.... The root
system that provides nourishment, sustenance, and
stability is the core competence.” Companies using
competencies experience rapid growth:
Canon, Honda outpaced rivals
Sony, Casio, Yamaha invented new devices
Consolidating corporate-wide technologies and
resources into competencies is the key to success
14. Diversified corporation as a large tree
Trunk and Major Limbs = Core Products
Leaves, Flowers and Fruit = End Products
Root System = Core Competency
provides nourishment, sustenance and stability
16. Core Competence
Core competence is….
the collective learning in the organization
a bundle of skills integrated to make a company unique
the organizational culture based on people, their skills and
knowledge make a company competitive
the engine for new business development
created from the coordination, integration and
harmonization of diverse skills and multiple streams of
technologies
communication, involvement, and working across
organizational boundaries
Unlike physical assets, competencies do not deteriorate as they
are applied and shared. They grow.
17. How Not to Think of Competence
Companies consider themselves as bundles of product
making businesses (remember Marketing Myopia!) and
is focused on price/performance attributes of current
products
Building core competencies is different from integrating
vertically….have no detailed plan on what, where, how to
build an organization
Cultivating core competence does not mean outspending
rivals on R&D or getting businesses to become more
vertically integrated
18. Identifying Core Competencies–And
Losing Them
At least three tests can be applied to identify core
competencies in a company. They are:
core competencies provide potential access to a variety of
markets
make a significant contribution to perceived customer
benefits of the end product
should be difficult for competitors to imitate
Core competency can be lost…
through outsourcing (Honda vs. Chrysler)
by giving up opportunities to establish competencies of
existing businesses (color television perceived as a mature
product)
