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Strategic Sourcing: From Periphery to the Core: The Idea in Brief Almost nothing a company does can't be outsourced anymore--even functions as critical as engineering, marketing, and manufacturing. Yet only 6% of the companies that outsource are satisfied with the practice. Why?...; Tags: Stephen Phillips, Rudy Puryear, Mark Gottfredson, Finance, Marketing, Business Operations, It Operations, Channel Management, Outsourcing, Capability, Supplier, 7-Eleven Inc., Sourcing, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Business Structures, Outsource, Partnership, In Brief, Harvard Business Review; Articles 2008-01-04
Selection Processes: Firms Versus Capabilities: Evolutionary theory studies selection processes by which organizational entities exit environments that they do not fit, but most work has underemphasized the distinction between selection of firms and selection of their underlying capabilities. This paper argues that the extent of organizational capabilities that struggling firms possess affects the type of...; Tags: Selection, Capability, Dissolution, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Sales Force Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sales; White papers 2006-07-31
Homeland Security: DHS' Efforts to Enhance First Responders' All - Hazards Capabilities Continue to Evolve: The events of September 11, 2001, have resulted in a greater focus on the role of first responders in carrying out the nation's emergency management efforts. This report examines the actions DHS ahs taken to provide policies and strategies that promote the development of the all-hazards emergency management capabilities of...; Tags: Corporate Insurance, Homeland Security, Capability, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Business Operations, Government, Business Security; White papers 2005-07-01
Balancing Your Scorecard: Overcome Performance Management Barriers by Focusing on Capability Management: The "balanced" Scorecard is an accounting system for viewing company assets from these multiple perspectives to create business strategies. This presentation introduces the concepts of human capability by using a capability vs. competence model, and longitudinal (across-time) vs. cross-sectional view within time snapshots. The presentation highlights how capability and competence...; Tags: Performance, Competence, Capability, Presentation, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Asset Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations; White papers 2005-03-10
Where Firms Change: Internal Development Versus External Capability Sourcing in the Global Telecommunications Industry: This paper studies firms' choices of internal versus external sources of new capabilities. This paper first compares transaction cost, knowledge-based, and institutional arguments, which all emphasize the attributes of capabilities, including contractual hazards, capability gaps, and legitimacy. It next contrasts these arguments with propositions that emphasize constraints on external availability...; Tags: Sourcing, Duke University, Telecommunications, Capability, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management; White papers 2004-09-16

Enhancing Product Development Through ICT-Based Relationships With Customers And Consumers: An important source for a firm's competitive advantage is its external knowledge-related relationships. Absorptive capability is a firm's ability to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends. It pertains to knowledge creation and utilization that enhances a firm's ability to gain and...; Tags: Software, Capability, Information And Communication Technology, Knowledge, Product Development, Acquisition, Enterprise Software, Management, Knowledge Management, Strategy; White papers 2004-04-08
How Can Behavioral Factors Be Used to Drive Process Excellence?: Methods for changing human behavior work best when they produce alignment between individual actions and business processes. This white paper explores current challenges and some general suggestions for using behaviors to improve process capabilities. It presents certain applications of behavioral approaches for process improvement to improve the process capabilities of...; Tags: Behavior, Capability, Operational Planning, Process Improvement, Business Operations, Quality; White papers 2004-03-10
How Much Are Marketing & Sales Capabilities Really Worth?: What Every Pharmacutical Executive Should Know: An industry-wide study conducted by Accenture investigated the impact of Marketing and Sales (M&S) capabilities on a company's financial performance and identified the specific M&S capabilities that deliver the highest returns. This white paper presents the results of this research. The bottom line is that competitively superior M&S capabilities can...; Tags: Capability, Bottom Line, Financial Performance, Accenture Ltd., Marketing Research, Financial Accounting, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Finance, Sales; White papers 2004-01-26
The Role of Learning and Technical Capabilities in Predicting Adoption of B2B Technologies: Using the resource-based view and the learning organization as its theoretical framework, the study presented in this paper hypothesized that organizations which possessed not only the technical capabilities for automation but also the ability to learn and share information would be most likely to automate their supply chain processes. An...; Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., E-procurement, B2B, Capability, Purchasing & Procurement, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2003-12-03
Federal EPM: Maximizing the Return on IT Investments Across the Enterprise: Federal Enterprise Project Management (Fed-EPM) is the strategic management of business and IT priorities, investments, and projects across a Federal enterprise. The Federal EPM framework provides for strategic IT delivery capabilities. This includes PMO capabilities to support better planning, management, and delivery of projects. It also includes PMO capabilities to...; Tags: Strategy, Management, Federal EPM Framework, Capability, IT Investment, Information Technology, Strategic Management; White papers 2003-10-09
Capability Reviews of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and the Ministry of Women's Affairs: This paper reports on the reviews of capability needs of the Ministries of Women's Affairs and Youth Affairs and makes recommendations to improve the capability of these Ministries to perform their role and purpose effectively and efficiently. The recommended option for improving the performance of Ministry of Youth Affairs MYA...; Tags: Gender And Diversity, Capability, Women, Ministry, Human Resources; White papers 2003-08-12
En Route to a Demand - Driven Business Model: By making Order-to-Delivery processes more demand-driven and customer-centric, key capabilities of the Build-to-Order BTO business model can better satisfy customer demands by building vehicles based on actual customer orders. Moving from Build-to-Stock (a “push” model) to Build-to-Order (a “pull” model) can powerfully transform Order-to-Delivery processes, unlocking unrealized business along the...; Tags: Marketing, Software, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Capability, Management, Channel Management; White papers 2003-04-17
Strategies for Building Human Resource Capital: Human Resource and training professionals have never had a better opportunity to be positioned at the centre of organizational strategic thinking. This is evident not only in the rhetoric about 'knowledge economies', 'brain drains' and 'virtual organizations' but also in economic and demographic trends. This article examines the subject of...; Tags: Knowledge, Cadence Design Systems Inc., Training, Capability, Workforce Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management; White papers 2003-02-28
Evaluating Company Resources And Competitive Capabilities: The internal environment of an organization contains the internal resources and possesses internal capabilities. It is imperative for the organization to conduct an internal analysis to assess its internal resources and competitive capabilities. Having known the same, the organization is in a better position to gain sustainable competitive advantage in...; Tags: Resource, Capability, Strategy, Management; Presentations 2003-01-01
How to Perform a Process Capability Study: There are certain steps to perform a process capability study. Select a candidate for the study, then define the process and procure resources for the study. Evaluate the measurement system and prepare a control plan. Select a method for the analysis and gather and analyze the data. Track down and...; Tags: Capability; White papers 2003-01-01
En Route To A Demand-Driven Business Model: By making Order-to-Delivery processes more demand-driven and customer-centric, key capabilities of the Build-to-Order BTO business model can better satisfy customer demands by building vehicles based on actual customer orders. Moving from Build-to-Stock (a “push” model) to Build-to-Order (a “pull” model) can powerfully transform Order-to-Delivery processes, unlocking unrealized business along the...; Tags: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Capability, Channel Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Management; White papers 2003-01-01
Intellectual Capital: Accumulation and Appropriation: This paper seeks to develop a literature-based perspective on intellectual property from the standpoint of business strategy and strategic human resource management. Distinctive competitive advantage is increasingly built on a firm's knowledge, one of the principal ingredients of intellectual capital. Competitive capability is strongly influenced by the organization's ability to...; Tags: Knowledge, Competitive Advantage, University Of Melbourne, Capability, Human Resource Management (HRM), Strategy, Intellectual Property, Organizational Structure, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Human Resources; White papers 2002-11-01
Yet Another Role for Team Building and Work Motivation - Enabler of Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Sharing: This paper reports on the methodologies used and the findings of the research conducted by the Enterprise Social Learning Architecture ESLA Task into learning processes occurring in a strategic headquarters within the Australian Defence Organisation ADO. The research focused on identifying processes and strategies that enable social learning in view...; Tags: Team-building, Knowledge, Motivation, Secretary, Capability, Team Management, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Management, Office Suites, Software; White papers 2002-05-06
Organizational Capabilities: Innovation is the ability to apply creative solutions to problem to enhance organizational productivity. In today’s dynamic business scenario, it is imperative for organizations to imbibe a culture of innovation. Innovation capabilities are the activities or processes evolved in the organization in course of new product development process. The paper...; Tags: Capability, Leadership, North Carolina State University, Innovation, Strategy, Product Marketing, Management, Marketing; Presentations 2002-02-05
Enhancing HR Value to the CEO: Strategies for Matching Strategy to Capability: This presentation takes a comprehensive, systemic view of an organization and its readiness for intervention. It addresses the 'people power paradox': most companies seek their future outside of themselves, not in their own people. It explains the relationship of strategy and capability. The presentation advises the CEO on how to...; Tags: Human Resources, Capability, Presentation, Strategy, Management; White papers 2002-01-01