Distinctive capabilities are the basis of your sustainable competitive advantage.

They help your company to STAND OUT from the competition.

The opportunity for your company to sustain your competitive advantage is determined by your capabilities of two kinds – distinctive and reproducible – and their unique combination you create to achieve synergy.

"Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else."

~ Henry David Thoreau

Primary Sources of Distinctive Capabilities

Radical innovations

Proprietary technology, exclusive licenses, well protected intellectual property

Market structure that limits entry

Rich experience which by its very nature requires extended time to replicate

Tacitness in knowledge and relationships – practices, routines and behavior which cannot be replicated because no-one fully comprehend their nature

Trust as a Distinctive Capability

Trust-based working relationships are an important source of your sustainable competitive advantage because trust is valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable, and often nonsubstitutable... More

Sources of Sustainable Competitive Advantage

Serendipity

Build Synergies

Build on your core competencies. Empower cross-functional teams. Utilize skills that combine to strengthen value chains and build greater competitive advantages. This will lead to synergies among business units, whereby they become more productive together than independently.

Master of Business Synergies (MBS)

Approaches Favoring Systemic Innovation and Development of Distinctive Capabilities

Distinctive capabilities helped me design and  launch
Innompic Games
as civilizational breakthrough, a Planet of Loving Creators, a radical mega-innovation, a relentless trend setter and the World's #1 in several target areas.