The Core Competence of the Corporation C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel Harvard Business Review 90311 HBR MAY–JUNE 1990 The Core Competence of the Corporation C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel The most powerful way to prevail in global competition is still invisible to many companies. During the 1980s‚ top executives were judged on their ability to restructure‚ declutter‚ and delayer their corporations. In the 1990s‚ they’ll be judged on their ability to identify‚ cultivate‚ and exploit
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Strategic Audit Is Apple Products Generic (iPod‚ iPhone‚ iPad)? Group No. 5- Ghanshyam Bheda (104) Kritika Gupta (311) Shikhar Mehra (314) Shivani Saxena (319) Sidharth Aneja (322) Suman Rathi (324) Ritwa Lokhandwala (330) Prabhudha Kushagra (336) Introduction Music Player Category MP3 player or Digital Audio Player is a consumer electronics device that is capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio‚ images‚ video‚ documents‚ etc. the data is typically stored on a hard drive‚ Microdrive
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3 – INTRODUCTION For the purpose of this strategic marketing plan report‚ the chosen Strategic Business Unit (SBU) is Aquarelle Clothing Limited one of the various subsidiaries of CIEL TEXTILE LIMITED i.e. the holding company of the CIEL GROUP. In 1973‚ Sir Pierre Dalais a former executive of the group received the support of his administrative team to invest in a totally new industry namely the textile industry. With the acquisition of Floréal Knitwear Limited the company has given birth to
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in markets outside of the domestic company. Technology and globalization of business has created a new competitive landscape for the twenty-first century. In short‚ they interacted to create a continuous revolution. In particular‚ the development and use of new technology to facilitate increasing globalization. Two types of technology - the internet and wireless communications - have profound effects on the way business is conducted worldwide. In india there is a culture where industrial production
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Chapter 6 Business Level Strategy Page 221 – 253 Bowman Strategy Clock Most Important. Sample Question: ← Identify strategic business units (SBUs) in organizations. ← Explain bases of achieving competitive advantage in terms of ‘routes’ on the strategy clock. ← Assess the extent to which these are likely to provide sustainable competitive advantage. ← Identify strategies suited to hyper-competitive conditions ← Explain the relationship between competition and collaboration
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Body……………………………………………………………………3-9 3.1 Background of Apple Inc……………………………………………………3 3.2 Critical Analyze of The Company’s Mission………………………………4-7 3.3 Strategic Management Process………………………………………………7-9 4. Conclusion………………………………………………………………………9 References…………………………………………………………………………10 List of figure Figure 1………………………………………………………………8 1. Introduction A mission statement globally defines what business an organization is in now and objectives of the organization
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manufacturing units in Saudi Arabia. Six are joint ventures; three ventures are fully owned by SABIC and others are partnerships both in local and internal corporations. The company made an acquisition in 2002 and increased its manufacturing complexes at Gelsenkirchen in Germany and Geleen in the Netherlands. The business of SABIC is divided into six strategic business units‚ and they receive support from corporate departments and shared corporation services. The SABIC business units include Intermediaries
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businesses or the government‚ etc.‚ and is broken down by the authors into five categories (p. 5): 1. Business-to-consumer (B2C) occurs when businesses sell finished products or services to individual consumers (pp. 5‚7). 2. Business-to-business (B2B) occurs when businesses sell unfinished materials‚ products‚ or services to other businesses (pp. 5‚7). 3. Business processes that support buying and selling activities includes the maintenance and sharing of information with
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America‚ Africa‚ and Asia in the first three decades of the 20th century. In 1929‚ Nestle moved into the chocolate business when it acquired a Swiss chocolate maker. This was followed in 1938 by the development of Nestle’s most revolutionary product‚ Nescafe‚ the world’s first soluble coffee drink. After World War 11‚ Nestle continued to expand into other areas of the food business‚ primarily through a series of acquisitions that included Maggi (1947)‚ Cross & Blackwell (1960)‚ Findus (1962)
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Matulovic who is the chief information officer of Volkswagen of America (VWoA) has a tough decision to make. Volkswagen’s subsidiary launched a new process for allocating budgets across the business. With the new process‚ they have derived at a list of approved projects that no one is happy about. Calls came flooding through to Matulovic with an informal request to insert an unfunded project into the IT department’s work plans. VWoA had projects requiring $210 millions and the parent company of VWoA
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