Strategic Capabilities
Strategic Capabilities
2011
Introduction
Strategy is all about planning the next moves, making decisions - how and where to move forward from the current position. In the past, strategy was associated mainly with the military sector, the top chiefs of command were making tactical choices in order to defeat their rivals and achieve victory. In the business sector the purpose of strategy is in principle the same, planning and building a road or path that will lead us to where ever it is we want to be in the future and to overcome all obstacles that might lay on the way. However, there is a difference between those two sectors, soldiers need only to follow orders without seeing or understanding the big picture, while in the organization 's strategy, in order to achieve maximum efficiency and better performance, all the people involve need to understand the reason for their actions. Successful strategies relayed, among other things, on the organization (military or any business) to possess the strategic capability to perform in different levels to reach specific goals that lead to success, and that can be sometimes a hard task for the organization due to the fact that capabilities as well as other product or service, evolves as time goes by.
Definition of Strategic Capability (SC)
There are many different definition to the term ‘Strategic capabilities’, Johnson and Scholes define strategic capabilities as the capabilities of an organization that contribute to its long-term survival or competitive advantage (Exploring strategy, 2011). Joakim define SC as high–level routines, resources and competences that are recognized as important in order to create and sustain a competitive advantage ( Joakim S, 2010), While Korn and Pine refer to the capabilities of the members of the organization that enable the formation and deployment of strategy in pursuit of a sustainable advantage (Kim Korn and Joe Pine).
There is no right or wrong, all the definitions are
2011
Introduction
Strategy is all about planning the next moves, making decisions - how and where to move forward from the current position. In the past, strategy was associated mainly with the military sector, the top chiefs of command were making tactical choices in order to defeat their rivals and achieve victory. In the business sector the purpose of strategy is in principle the same, planning and building a road or path that will lead us to where ever it is we want to be in the future and to overcome all obstacles that might lay on the way. However, there is a difference between those two sectors, soldiers need only to follow orders without seeing or understanding the big picture, while in the organization 's strategy, in order to achieve maximum efficiency and better performance, all the people involve need to understand the reason for their actions. Successful strategies relayed, among other things, on the organization (military or any business) to possess the strategic capability to perform in different levels to reach specific goals that lead to success, and that can be sometimes a hard task for the organization due to the fact that capabilities as well as other product or service, evolves as time goes by.
Definition of Strategic Capability (SC)
There are many different definition to the term ‘Strategic capabilities’, Johnson and Scholes define strategic capabilities as the capabilities of an organization that contribute to its long-term survival or competitive advantage (Exploring strategy, 2011). Joakim define SC as high–level routines, resources and competences that are recognized as important in order to create and sustain a competitive advantage ( Joakim S, 2010), While Korn and Pine refer to the capabilities of the members of the organization that enable the formation and deployment of strategy in pursuit of a sustainable advantage (Kim Korn and Joe Pine).
There is no right or wrong, all the definitions are