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Benchmarking Your Core Competencies?: With an advance in the strategy theory the emphasis has shifted from the ever increasing need to improve efficiency - driven by the need to respond to market demands, to a richer understanding of an organisation's core competencies and key value drivers. In today's transparent and truly global business context,...; Tags: Core Competency, Benchmarking, Best Practice, Strategy, Management; White papers
Conducting One-on-One Employment Interviews: Employers commonly conduct one-on-one (or face-to-face) interviews with individual job candidates to select a new staff member. When potential recruits interview with several company representatives, the multiple perspectives provide valuable input to the hiring decision process. However, sometimes in small businesses and start-up environments, only one manager will participate in...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, BNET Editorial, job, core competency, technique, small business, hiring; Articles 2007-10-12
Conducting Panel Employment Interviews: Panel interviewing allows multiple people to interview a job candidate at the same time. A panel has two or more participants, which may include the direct manager for the role, human resources staff, department managers, and/or the candidate’s potential colleagues. Peer participants commonly participate when recruiting a new senior staff...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, BNET Editorial, job, communication skill, core competency, recruiting, Human Resources, technique; Articles 2007-10-11
Identifying, Managing, and Nurturing Top Talent: Talent is an indicator of one’s capacity to learn, grow, and develop new skills for future use. It also suggests how quickly a person or organization can adapt to new challenges. In this article, “talent” is defined as a dormant or untapped quality that lies either in an individual employee...; Tags: Workforce management, BNET Editorial, talent, succession planning, seed, business strategy, Human Resources, talent management, job, core competency, benefit, strategy; Articles 2007-06-27
Systems Thinking: The "Core" core competency for BPM: This short but insightful article reminds of all of the importance of systems thinking to business process change. Ultimately processes are simply one element in the overall system that is called a company. Contemplating any company's transition to business process management, the implications for IT professionals are profound, for companies...; Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, BPM, business process, core competency, information technology; White papers 2005-09-01

Business Innovation - core competency and Competitive Advantage: Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation. There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number...; Tags: Innovation, Core Competency, Competitive Advantage, EzineArticles.com, Leadership, Strategy, Management; White papers 2005-05-11
AMR Research Alert: Rethinking Core Competencies: In this thought-provoking article from AMR Research, author Bruce Richardson discusses recent trends in the Research and Development (R&D) arena and explains why "everyday low prices," which are great for consumers, make it hard for manufacturers and vendors to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Richardson goes on to outline the...; Tags: Research & Development, Strategy, IBM Corp., Bruce Richardson, core competency, AMR Research, R&D, product design, competitive advantage, outsourcing; White papers 2005-03-17
How Are Hospitals Financing the Future?: Core Competencies in Capital Planning: The importance of coordinating strategic planning with capital planning cannot be emphasized enough. But all too often in health care, those planning processes are conducted separately, with negative results. Strategic objectives that are not financially tested may fail or never come to fruition. Conversely, when capital expenditures are set without...; Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, Gale Group, core competency, Strategic Planning, financing, health care; White papers 2004-07-01
When in Doubt, Farm Out: Outsourcing Lets Small Businesses Focus on Their Core Competencies: The outsourcing trend began in the early '90s, when large corporations started contracting work to third parties as a cost-saving measure to concentrate resources on their core businesses. Today, small businesses nationwide are jumping on the bandwagon. The total outsourcing market has tripled since 1996 to an estimated $400 billion...; Tags: Gale Group, outsourcing, core competency, cost savings, small business; White papers 2003-08-01
Core Competencies: A Simplified Look at a Complicated Issue: Communication skills are just one of the core leadership competencies healthcare financial managers need to succeed in today's marketplace. In practical terms, core competencies can be defined as attributes that make one person more effective than someone else who holds the same job. In other words, core competencies are linked...; Tags: Strategy, Gale Group, core competency, communication skill, job, health care, financial; White papers 2003-05-01
Core Competencies: Staying ahead of the changing economy is getting more and more difficult to do by working harder. Adapting to changes and working smarter requires specific focus. Focusing on the core competencies of the company is the means to develop that focus. More specifically, one need to determine what core competencies...; Tags: Strategy, core competency; White papers 2003-01-01
Core Competencies: Core competencies lead to the development of core products. Core products are not directly sold to end-users; rather, they are used to build a larger number of end-user products. The business units of the corporation each tap into the relatively few core products to develop a larger number of end...; Tags: Strategy, core competency, core product, competence, benefit; White papers 2003-01-01
Interlocking core competency Interviews For Different Organizational Levels: Any organization with core competencies should have core competency interviews to support them, so it can hire people strong in those competencies. This is one critical way of truly bringing those competencies to life around the organization. Asking managerial candidates about a time when they instilled a customer-focused culture in...; Tags: HR.com, competency, core competency; White papers 2003-01-01
The Internal Environment: Resources, Capabilities And Core Competencies: The organization’s resources, its capabilities and competencies make up the internal environment of the organization. The internal environment plays a crucial role in the strategic management process of the organization. It is a direct reflection of what the organization can do in the event of a business-related exigency. The organization’s...; Tags: Strategy, America Online Inc., core competency, strategic management, environment, analysis, tool; Presentations 2003-01-01
Technology Marketing in Troubled Times: Most IT and R&D departments are under orders to trim costs along with the rest of the organization. Only highly progressive R&D groups and IT departments with clear competitive missions are immune. Every organization is undergoing painful self-evaluations of their markets and their core competencies. If they have money...; Tags: Research & Development, core competency, R&D, motivation, marketing, strategy; White papers 2003-01-01
Internal Analysis: The internal environment of an organization contains the internal resources and possesses internal capabilities and core competencies. The organization needs to conduct the internal analysis figure out loopholes in resources, capabilities, and core competencies. This enables the firm to devise suitable strategies for closing the gaps in the aforesaid internal...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Western Washington University, core competency, analysis, M&A, merger, environment, strategy; Presentations 2003-01-01
Resources, Capabilities, And Core Competencies: The internal environment consists of the inherent competencies of the firm and the structure of its internal systems and processes. It is imperative for the organization to conduct an internal analysis to obtain a clear picture regarding its strengths and weaknesses. Based on the same, the organization can devise suitable...; Tags: Purdue University, core competency, value chain, analysis, strategy, competitive advantage, environment; Presentations 2003-01-01
The Internal Environment: Resources, Capabilities And Core Competencies: The organization’s resources, its capabilities and competencies make up the internal environment of the organization. The internal environment plays a crucial role in the strategic management process of the organization. The organization’s core competencies help sustain it in the long run in the face of competition. The paper discusses the...; Tags: Strategy, Thomson Corp., core competency, strategic management, environment, competitive advantage, analysis; Presentations 2003-01-01
Internal Analysis: This presentation explains that internal analysis, external analysis, strategic intent, and strategic mission are combined to formulate and implement strategy. It includes the components of internal analysis, core competencies, four criteria of sustainable advantages, value chain analysis, and SWOT analysis. This presentation helps to determine if a capability is a...; Tags: Baylor University, core competency, analysis, SWOT analysis, value chain, strategy; Presentations 2003-01-01
Building Bridges : Relationship Management is the New core competency: It has been realised that the concept of outsourcing has rearly shown an upward trend. The estimation of growth of this concept has been high as 20%. The process of outsourcing has been very important aspect and been divided into 5 steps. This article also throws light upon customer relation...; Tags: outsourcing, core competency; White papers 2003-01-01