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Elements of Strategic Interdependent Competencies:
- Strategic awareness and learning
- Failure and crisis avoidance
- Avoid business failure
- Plan for things going wrong
- Manage business and other crises
- Manage turnarounds
- Stakeholder satisfaction
- Understand and meet needs
- Satisfy key succes factors (KSF)
- Ethics and social responsibility
- Manage green issues
- Manage socially
- Manage ethically
- Strategic awareness and control
- Think strategically
- Environmental awareness
- Self-enacted reality avoidance
- Fitting organization
- Failure and crisis avoidance
- Process change
- Strategic awareness and control
- Self-enacted reality avoidance
- Fitting organization
- Quality and customer care
- Quality
- Continuous improvement
- Innovative and creative organisations
- Strategy implementation
- Ability to operationalize
- New competitive paradigms
- Internal synergy
- Empowerment
- Flexible plans
- Winning vision
- Strategic collaboration
- Strategic awareness and control
- Content competencies
- Strategy implementation
- Flexible plans
- Winning vision
- Strategic collaboration
- Functional compentencies
- Effective distribution
- Harness IT
- Financial control
- Research & Development
- Develop Human Resources
- Develop new processes
- Develop new products
- Competitive strategy
- Stay close to customers and choose winning product
- Understand competitive situations
- Strategy implementation
Principle:
Layers of strategic competence
The eight theme groups (inner circle) are needed, strategic leader must identify which of the 32 that can really make a difference
Issues:
Change comes from learning by understanding
Learning comes from all stakeholders
– Managers must share information, work in harmony and create synergy
The three groups of Strategic Groups of Competencies
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Content competencies add value, innovate and exploit core competences (technology) and strategic capabilities (process)
Change competencies enables the organization to adapt to a dynamic environment
Learning competencies enables the organization to understand the environment, customers and competitors
Applications:
Manage portfolio of strategic competencies
Source of Strategic Interdependent Competencies:
(Thompson & Martin, 2005)