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Distinctive Capabilities Provide the Basis for Strategy Formulation

The business strategy formulated by a firm should allow it to best exploit its core competencies and distinctive capabilities relative to opportunities in the external environment.

A capability is a capacity for a set of resources to perform integratively a stretch task.

Distinctive capabilities provide the basis for sustainable competitive advantage.

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Corporate vs. Functional Capabilities

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For existing and aspiring market leaders and disruptive strategists, the firm's internal environment, in terms of its resources and capabilities, is more critical to strategic thinking and the determination of strategic action than is the external environment, especially in today’s era of rapid change.

Corporate Capability Approach to Strategy Implementation

Organizations that excel at strategy execution know how to create sustainable value for stakeholders through synergizing key organizational capabilities. In the capability model, senior managers focus on a balanced approach to the business system and strategic innovation.

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An organizational capability approach nurtures such critical factors essential to achieving superior, sustainable results as strategic focus and organizational strategic alignment.

In turn, taking strategic action to achieve strategic focus and organizational alignment develops capability thinking.

Strategic Simulation Games

Strategic simulation games, like INNOBALL, can help enhance corporate capabilities dramatically – fast!

"To become an effective strategist requires constant practice in strategic thinking." ~ Kenichi Ohmae

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