activity that is central to the company’s ability to achieve a competitive advantage. • Distinctive Competency – An internal‚ value-creating activity that is unique and allows a company to achieve a competitive advantage. • Capability – A company’s ability to put its resources and competencies to productive use. Core competencies are rarely reliant on a single department – they are more likely to owe their existence to a strong collaboration between two or more departments. Strategically relevant
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the growing toy market . In this paper‚ we will examine what are Lego’s most valuable resources and capabilities at the turn of the century? Lego’s long standing history‚ stability of core values and their ability to bridge past and present offers both a psychological and professional advantage against new entrants to the toy market. Although tangible resources such as free cash flow from profits are valuable to the company‚ intangible resources such as Lego’s brand name and technology innovation are
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Capabilities Capabilities are valuable‚ rare‚ costly to imitate and non substitutable are core competencies. Core competencies are sources of competitive advantage for the firm over its rivals. A sustained competitive advantage is achieved only when the competitors cannot duplicate the benefits of a firm’s strategy or when they lack the resources to attempt imitation. Sustainable competitive advantage results only when all four criteria are satisfied. For a capability to be a core competence
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Q.: How do social networking sites work? What has contributed to their immense popularity? A.: The first phase of the Web was all about content publishing by “experts”‚ without any possibility of interaction between user and author. The second phase of the Web‚ Web 2.0‚ is defined by social media tools‚ which support social interactions and connections with people‚ as well as collaboration and sharing‚ and the creation of user-generated content. This was the major change that allowed the beginning
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Marks & Spencer Resources‚ Capabilities & Competitive Advantage Compiled for Paull Robathan. Author: Kerry Sheehan Monday‚ 02 February 2004 1EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the period up until the mid 1990’s M&S had a market leading share of the clothing market. They used their resources and subsequent capabilities to exploit their differences from the competitors and create competitive advantage by: *Empowering suppliers/manufacturers with design responsibility *Closely managing supplier relationships
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MIS(Management Information Systems) Student Number : 20100599 Lecturer : Dr .Mary Agoyi The Google 1. How is Google’s mission statement related to its business strategy? Google is an organization that provide information to the world in which it can be accessible easily and letting people make use of the information and to make the world’s information universally accessible and useful. Google is always takes risk‚ because they really want to expand their market size so that it can reach the
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company. Core brand values helps a company to grow in the market. It is very important to build core brand values in order to maintain competition. Big companies such as Google has developed their core brand values that other companies in the same market are not even close to give them a competition. The author is going to explain Google ’s core brand values to illustrate the importance of this topic. Introduction: Core Brand values are theory that explains one organizations internal conduct as well as
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2.1.4 What is YouTube? YouTube serves as an online video sharing website that allows its users to upload and retrieve video content online. Users can start profiles and watch other people’s video and allow others to watch your content that you upload. YouTube videos are scattered all over the Internet and can be shared on other social networks and websites‚ however the YouTube server hosts the original files. YouTube advertises its slogan by stating “Broadcast Yourself.” This markets that YouTube
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Use of Resources‚ Capabilities and Core Competences. Resources‚ capabilities and core competences Resources‚ capabilities and core competencies are the foundation of competitive advantage. Resources are bundled to create organizational capabilities. In turn‚ capabilities are the source of a firm’s core competencies‚ which are the basis of competitive advantages. Here‚ we define and provide examples of these building blocks of competitive advantage. 1. Resources Broad in scope‚ resources cover
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Appendix 3 – Internal Analysis Resources: a) Tangible resources: i) Physical: plants and equipment * H-D invests continuously in plants and equipment. * H-D plants are located in different states in the US‚ very far from each other‚ which causes very high transportation costs. i) Technological: * H-D is known for its technological backwardness in terms of engines‚ suspension systems‚ braking systems‚ and transmissions. iii)
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