What are capabilities? What must firms do to create capabilities? Capability is a capacity for a set of resources to integratively perform a stretch task. It represents the identity of the firm as perceived by both its employees and customers. It is the firm’s ability to perform better than competitors using a distinctive and difficult to replicate set of business attributes. The organization’s capability is comprised of three core assets – physical capital‚ including all tangible assets; technology
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innovate is to die” (Freeman‚ 2005‚ p.266). We could define the innovation as “… (innovation) life cycle is an S-shaped logistic curve consisting of three distinct phases: emergence (the development of the product or service‚ its manufacturing capabilities‚ and its place in the market)‚ growth (where the product family pervades the market). and maturity (where the market issaturated and growth slows)” (William G. Howard‚ 1992). The satisfaction of customers are unlimited‚ they always want new products
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Negative Capability ’The concept of Negative Capability is the ability to contemplate the world without the desire to try and reconcile contradictory aspects or fit it into closed and rational systems.’ Keats was a romantic poet‚ full of intense passion and desire‚ yet shy and reserved. He was a young man with all the determination and melancholy of a teenager on a romantic quest to be among the English poets when he died. He is an inspiration to all of us‚ full of colourful language and imagination
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[pic] [pic] Safedocs Document Management Services Business Report Part-B TABLE OF CONTENTS: Page No: 1 Executive Summary 03 2 Resource Demands 04 2.1 Financial Resources 2.2 Human Resources 04 2.3 Physical Resources 05 2.3.1 Location 05 2.3.2 Technological Resources 05 2.3.3 Marketing 06 2.3.4 Infrastructure Resources 06 2.4 Intangible Resources 06 2.4.1 Brand
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Dallas News. Ranking: AT&T is the most valuable bank in Texas. Available from http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2014/03/ranking-att-is-the-most-valuable-brand-in-texas.html/ [Accessed 25 June 2014] Grant‚ R Grant‚ R. (2005) Analyzing Resources and Capabilities. Contemporary Strategic Analysis. Volume 5 p.130-185 Kanter‚ R Lieberman M.B. Montgomery D.B (1988)‚ “First-Mover Advantages”‚ Strategic Management Journal‚ Vol. 9‚ 41-58 Market Watch Porter‚ M. (M 2005) ’Michael Porter on Strategy ’‚ Leadership
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Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/csr.251 Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: A ‘Dynamic Capabilities’ Perspective Venugopal Ramachandran* Insitute for Financial Management and Research‚ Chennai‚ India ABSTRACT In this paper‚ strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) is defined on the basis of Porter’s theory of competitive advantage. Two kinds of dynamic capabilities are proposed as the precursors to strategic CSR success and operationalized in terms of two sets of associated
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Capabilities Analysis of JetBlue Airlines JFK Hub The JFK Airport hub in New York City is a tangible physical resource of JetBlue. This hub provides significant size and location capabilities. The airport is a large population center‚ with 19 million people within the 60-mile radius. The hub is also at the heart of some underserved markets‚ including upstate New York and the New England region. This resource also has political support from the state government. This support allowed JetBlue
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AN ESSAY ON the OPTIONS FOR the ADF TO strike the correct balance between the development of a joint amphibious capability and the raising‚ training and sustaining of the rest of its suite of capabilities? By U5172061 Introduction The Department of Defence is currently facing one of the most challenging situations since its conception. On one hand‚ the environment suggests Australia is entering time of increased strategic competition between major powers in our region.1 This has the potential
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Dynamics of Strategic Capability Jokull Johannesson Northampton Business School University of Northampton E-mail: jokull.johannesson@northampton.ac.uk Iryna Palona University of Liverpool Abstract The strategic capability concept and its integration into the strategic planning process in international business have not been sufficiently explored as its conflicting definitions indicate. Moreover international managers may not be aware of the need for strategic capability because‚ the strategic
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The Instrument Landing System Up to now‚ your instrument approach experience has allowed you to land in weather conditions as adverse as an overcast ceiling of 400 ft. and visibility as low as one-half mile. NDB and VOR approaches‚ with their lateral guidance to the runway‚ greatly improve the reliability of flight schedules. But without the capability to provide vertical guidance to the runway they are limited in utility. No vertical guidance classes them as non-precision approaches. The
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