Concept of Dynamic Capabilities of a Firm A dynamic capability refers to company’s ability to integrate, build and transform internal and external competencies. They can help an organization to achieve innovative forms of competitive advantage through integration, building and transformation of internal and external competencies, as to respond to changes in the environment. This management theory was defined by David Teece, Gary Pisano, and Amy Shuen in their 1997 paper Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management. In the context of achieving organizational change, aligned to the external pressure: namely, these capabilities are perceived as business processes that use resources — specifically the processes of integration, restructuring, acquisition and release resources — to adapt or create market changes. Dynamic capabilities are especially helpful in explaining the sources of competitive advantage in extremely volatile markets. Dynamic capabilities are determined by organizational and managerial processes, positions and paths. The organizational and managerial processes referContinue reading
Strategic Management Concepts
Business Excellence Implementation in Organizations
For business to be successful, organizations need to realize that business excellence is a tool which helps them translate their plan into action and is a way of executing strategy. The best way to implement ‘business excellence’ practices in any organization is to balance the differential elements or variables of ‘business excellence’ models in such a way that development is strongly aligned to organizational imperatives. The successful implementation of ‘business excellence’ practices requires focused leadership whose concern for improvement (excellence) or financial necessity outweighs their attachment to traditional norms. One of the major issues faced by organizations implementing business excellence or quality management practices is the change in the culture of organizations as ‘business excellence’ implementation process may need to change the current work practices. Implementation Process The three aspects which should form an essential ingredient of the business excellence system are program design, leadership support and effective execution. ApartContinue reading
The Importance of Core Competencies in Strategy Formulation
Strategy allows an organisation to deliver its vision. To develop a deliberate strategy which could potentially increase the sustainability of an organisation clearly requires the identification of core competencies but often a single strategy is not the answer. Organisations require a headline strategy to fit a brief which resonates the vision but several strategies are required over many departments such as research and development, production and marketing to deliver the main strategy. The process of strategy development is complex and methodology depends on several factors including the availability of resources and the external environment. The first step in strategy development is the identification of core competencies then followed by the the process of leveraging resources so they can be exploited for maximum benefit. Strategy development is a crucial step in attaining competitive advantage but a strategy is only as successful as its implementation. The process of leveraging core competencies thereforeContinue reading
Managing Collaborative Relationships with Stakeholders in Organizations
Understanding the principles of effective collaboration with other organizations is important in an organization as the current stakeholders have an active interest, the interests could be financial, environmental or charitably within the organizations. Within an organization, building relationships with stakeholders can prove to help your business by using their expertise’s and knowledge. There can be both moral and business reasons to collaborate with stakeholders. By working with stakeholders that have current interests allows you to have a common ground and want the best outcomes for your organization, it allows you to create outcomes together, improve current systems and work on these together to create a better functioning organization. Collaborating with stakeholders allows new ideas and helps towards problem solving. Looking at the stakeholders allows you to gain experience and feedback to create a better working business, it also allows you to build relationships which can help towards future cost, flexibilityContinue reading
Core Competencies – Competitive Base for Organizational Success
Competence is considered as the most important attribute without which a business cannot enter or survive in an industry. Competences develop from resources and skills, technology and know-how all together makes up competences. For example in the pharma industry in order to survive or operate successfully a very specific understanding of the special equipment’s needed to manufacture medicines and how a medicine works on the human body is important. That is every player in the industry needs to possess each of these competences in order for it to survive long term. Core Competences are the skills and abilities by which resources are deployed through an organisations activities and processes such as to achieve competitive advantage in ways that others cannot imitate or obtain. Core competence is a distinctive capability that enables an organisation to perform above the average industry performance. In the 1990s this concept gained momentum after the introductionContinue reading
Stakeholder Expectations and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Stakeholders can be primary or secondary. Primary stakeholder groups comprise of employees, customers, investors, suppliers, government, and community with whom the corporation may have a formal, official or anybody who has claimed on the firm’s even though it is not significant. They consist of both internal and external stakeholder groups. Internal stakeholders comprise of employees and investors which are shareholder or bondholder, external stakeholders are the customers, communities, suppliers, government, and the environment which claimed on the firm’s if any damage occurs. Secondary stakeholders are media and special interest groups towards a firm where they didn’t have any contact with the firm, they just act like a spectators. Stakeholder theory has a number of strengths and weaknesses in its capacity to address issues of low-wage work. Classifying a group as a stakeholder has moral import and significant outcomes which means that the classifying the stakeholder can ensure that their problemsContinue reading