identify as Sony’s resources‚ capabilities and core competencies? Does Sony have a sustainable competitive advantage? Sony Corporation is considered one of the world’s most successful companies‚ operating in the “electronics‚ games‚ music‚ films and financial services” industry (Hanson et al‚ 2001). Sony is known for creating “products that stimulate the senses and refresh the spirit” (Sony‚ 2007). Effectively managing a combination of its resources‚ capabilities and core competencies‚ has allowed
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The term “Core competence” was first put forward in the 1990. In the book The Core Competence of the Corporation‚collaborated on by famous management experts C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel. It points out‚ “Core competence is optimized knowledge and skills inside some organization‚ especially regarding how to adjust diverse manufacturing skills and optimize different technologies and skills.” In their view‚ core competence first of all should provide the enterprises with the potential to enter different
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3 Market Development 4 Product Development 4 Diversification 4 From Strategy to Implementation 5 Stage-Gate Product Innovation Process 7 Stage 0: Idea Generation 7 Stage 1: Scoping 7 Stage 2: Project Evaluation 7 Stage 3: Development 8 Stage 4: Testing and Validation 8 Stage 5: Launch 8 Conclusion 10 Bibliography 11 Introduction In order to sustain growth and compete in today’s ever-changing business environment‚ organisations must continue to develop commercially successful products in order to
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NEW-PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN TOURISM COMPANIES CASE STUDIES ON NATURE-BASED ACTIVITY OPERATORS Raija Komppula University of Joensuu Department of Economics Box 111 FIN-80101 JOENSUU Raija.Komppula@joensuu.fi ABSTRACT New product development in tourism companies has been a nearly ignored theme in tourism marketing literature. Research on product development has in major studies handled destinations‚ development of resorts or sites as a total tourist product. This paper will introduce two case
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introduction of products and services to stay alive in the market. Continuous learning helps organizations to identify gap between the current business and areas which could be tapped with the help of existing knowledge of the market which is close to our existing area of focus. This fits to services businesses as well as products businesses. Where there is a solution to a problem‚ there is the prospect for a business. One of the many ways of continuous improvement of the business is product/service
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Organizations develop strategies to gain a competitive advantage. One way an organization establishes competitive advantage is through the use and development of core competencies. Core competencies are the value created activities that allows a company to achieve efficiency‚ quality‚ innovation‚ or customer responsiveness (Jones‚ 2010). Two specific core competencies that give an organization a competitive advantage are functional and organizational resources. Functional resources are simply the
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Core Banking System Meaning:- Core banking is a general term used to describe the services provided by a group of networked bank branches. Bank customers may access their funds and other simple transactions from any of the member branch offices. Core Banking system or CBS is one of the recent developments in the field of banking‚ and has proved to be very useful. It is a facility provided by banks in which a person‚ having an account in one branch‚ can operate his account‚ in another
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Common Core of Skills and Knowledge for the Children’s Workforce Children’s Workforce Development Council Association of Chief Police Officers Contents Introduction 4 1 Effective communication and engagement with children‚ young people‚ their families and carers 6 2 Child and young person development 10 3 Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the child 13 4 Supporting transitions 16 5 Multi-agency working 18 6 Sharing information 21 7
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A core competency is a concept in management theory originally advocated by C. K. Prahalad‚ and Gary Hamel‚ two business book writers. In their view a core competency is a specific factor that a business sees as being central to the way it‚ or its employees‚ works. It fulfills three key criteria: 1. It is not easy for competitors to imitate. 2. It can be re-used widely for many products and markets. 3. It must contribute to the end consumer’s experienced benefits. The importance of the
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nurse educators and nurse administrators are all advanced practice registered nurses by simple definition. What separates‚ yet defines and merges each of these complex roles is a set of core competencies essential for practice. While each role may differ in the practical sense‚ the similarities of the stated core competencies by each professional organization will become more clear and concise. The initial difference identified by most is clinical advanced roles versus non-clinical advanced roles
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