Executive summary

Core competencies are the collective skills and technologies that provide disproportionate customer value and are hard to imitate, the roots of competitiveness. This is the Core Competencies from the Stratenity Library, a governed consulting deliverable that is already built for you. It gives your team the full working method for core competencies, and it walks through everything from competencies, products, and business units to competence gaps and sourcing. Every asset ships with a worked client example, a clear RACI, defined KPIs, and governance you can defend, so your team adapts it to a live client engagement instead of starting from a blank page.

What is inside

What this asset covers

This is a preview of the full deliverable. Inside the Stratenity Library, this asset walks a consultant through the complete method, section by section, with a worked client example threaded throughout.

  • What a Core Competence Actually Is
  • The Three Tests
  • Competencies, Products, and Business Units
  • The Tree Metaphor and Core Products
  • Identifying Candidate Competencies
  • Assessing and Validating Competencies
  • Competence Gaps and Sourcing
  • Building Strategic Architecture
  • Avoiding Competence Erosion and the Tyranny of the SBU
  • Make-versus-Buy and Outsourcing Decisions
  • Common Pitfalls and Failure Modes
  • Integrating with RBV and VRIO
  • The Deliverable and Communicating It
How to use it

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