As the owner of a small enterprise, you focus a great deal of time honing your business' strengths and competitive advantage. In time, you establish a few areas of expertise. These are distinctive ...

Testing the causal link between a firm-specific competence and its antecedents or consequences has become a key objective for strategy research over the past decade. On one hand, case studies can ...

One of the best things about being a consultant is the opportunity to see so many kinds of businesses. Though different companies are certainly at different stages of their lifecycles, strategic ...

00:09 Robert Kaplan: Vision alone is not enough, okay? You gotta do one other thing. You’ve got to then decide, and I would argue, when I say you need to ask questions, asking just once three years ...

Developing an exploration plan that minimizes risk may be the most important step an organization takes toward a financially strong exploration program. The development of such a plan requires an ...

Forming pools of talent of 'distinctive competencies' in the GCC The use of technology in emerging markets has had some odd effects, but one of the most interesting aspects of recent developments has ...

We came across a blog in a WARC email written by Richard Shotton, Head of Insights at ZenithOptimedia, where he discussed the importance of “distinctiveness” and how it boosted memorability in a hyper ...