The most powerful way to prevail in stiff competition is still invisible to many companies. Long time ago, top executives were judged on their ability to restructure, declutter and deliver results to ...

The idea of core competence was introduced into management literature in 1990 by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel. The two business academics wrote: Core competencies are the collective learning in the ...

Since Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad put forth the idea of “core competencies” in a 1990 Harvard Business Review article, “The Core Competence of the Corporation,” organizations have taken this insight as ...

But what is a core competency? And how can an enterprise separate a core competency from day-to-day business functions, many of which remain relevant and important? NEARSOL itself has extensive ...

Perfection may be your goal when developing a competency model for your supply management team. While that’s admirable, keep in mind the most important characteristics of the plan are consistency and ...

Competency models are used to define which characteristics and performance requirements are needed to meet a certain expectation. A competency is essentially being adept and capable at a certain skill ...

We often hear from the Operations team saying, “we don’t get the right people for the job”, complaining about the HR team. The HR team in turn says, “the operations’ team did not know what skills were ...