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Sustaining Competitive Advantage: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-679-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementIn "Value Creation & Capture", we discussed how firms gain competitive advantage and create value by making choices and trade-offs, allowing them to capture more value than rivals, and hence, generate greater profit. This note focuses on the internal analysis of a firm, concentrating on how a firm can combat imitation by utilizing its unique resources, capabilities, and core competencies. This resource-based approach emphasizes that the key to pr...Starting at €8.20
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Competitive dynamics: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-680-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThis technical note will discuss some of the main strategies firms employ in close competition with other firms and how game theory can be used to help shape a firm's competitive strategy.Starting at €8.20
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Competitive dynamics
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-680Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEn la presente nota técnica se comentarán algunas de las principales estrategias que emplean las compañías con una gran rivalidad con otras empresas y cómo la teoría de juegos se puede utilizar para dar forma a la estrategia competitiva de las organizaciones.Starting at €8.20
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From Ladder to Lattice: The New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3881BC-ELeadership and People ManagementScaling the corporate ladder has been the enduring gold standard for personal success since organizational hierarchy was invented at the beginning of the industrial age. However, a confluence of market and demographic forces in the past twenty years has compressed hierarchies, shortened the ladder, and reduced the qualified pool of high-potential employees available to climb it. Another set of business and societal influences has reshaped the Ame...Starting at €8.20
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The Nontraditional Is the New Traditional: Six Trends that have Created a New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3882BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWhy is here and now the time to acknowledge and respond to the notion that corporate structures are morphing from a ladder to a lattice construct? One reason is that six key trends are converging in ways that create an unprecedented workforce challenge for business executives. This convergence is creating sweeping changes in workforce composition, attitudes, and capabilities. This chapter dissects the six trends and illustrates how each is exacer...Starting at €8.20
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Value Creation and Capture: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-678-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThis note introduces the basic concepts of value creation and value capture, which are used as the building blocks for many other concepts, tools, and frameworks in Competitive Strategy. Defining these concepts allows us to think and talk more precisely about Competitive Strategy. They also allow us to make progress in our understanding of what strategies might actually work, and which are doomed to fail. In this note, we will also define some ot...Starting at €8.20
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The Journey Toward a Lattice Organization: Implementing the Principles of Mass Career Customization
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3885BC-ELeadership and People ManagementMass career customization (MCC) is a natural evolution from the traditional corporate-ladder path, with its one-size-fits-all approach, and the one-off flexible work arrangement approach of accommodation through point solutions, to a more pragmatic, adaptive lattice model. MCC is a framework that helps enterprises promote multidimensional, customized career experiences. The payback is a more actively engaged and loyal workforce. This chapter exam...Starting at €8.20
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Living in a Lattice World: The Challenges of Evolving the Workplace to Match the Changing Workforce
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3887BC-ELeadership and People ManagementChanges in the demographics of the workforce, the shift toward a knowledge-driven economy, the structure of family life, the evolution of enabling technology, and the nature of work itself are challenging the firmly rooted corporate-ladder model of career progression. A new latticelike model is emerging in its place, opening alternative paths for high-performing, high-potential employees to not only contribute to achieving strategic priorities in...Starting at €8.20
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Why Flexible Work Arrangements Are Not the Answer
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3883BC-ELeadership and People ManagementFormal flexible work arrangements have been an important step toward increasing work life balance. They provide options other than the traditional workplace expectation that employees will work continuously and full-time and do so consistently in the office. But by focusing on relatively short-term personal situations while ignoring longer-term career implications, FWAs mainly have served as way stations in career paths, sidelining-and even derai...Starting at €8.20
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Mass Career Customization: The Framework for Aligning the Workplace with the Workforce
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3884BC-ELeadership and People ManagementMarket and demographic trends have converged to force a realignment of workplace norms and practices with the realities of today's nontraditional workforce. This new workforce imperative means the conventional ladder culture that most twenty-first-century business leaders have accepted is no longer a sufficient model. Instead, the authors advocate a lattice-like model-along with the supporting framework, approach, and processes-that will help ide...Starting at €8.20