A&N Strategy Consulting

Tag: core competencies

  • Linking Strategy to Identity and Culture to Cope with the Changing Environment

    Conceptually, a firm’s strategy (what we plan to do) and organizational identity (who we are) are deeply linked. This nexus has drawn more attention recently because of the changing environment of businesses in the last two decades. When a firm’s external environment is unstable, it finds difficulty in coping with it, and therefore, the firm’s…

  • Developing Multiple Sources of Added Value for Customers

    Because fierce competition erodes a firm’s competitive advantage, firms should continuously move fast and build new advantages to counteract the advantages of competitors. To survive and prosper in today’s fiercely competitive market environment, firms need effective functional strategies to continuously add value to their offerings and build multiple layers of added value in different areas…

  • Organizational Barriers to Transformational Change

    According to the punctuated equilibrium model, organizations evolve through relatively long periods of equilibrium (stability), which then get disrupted by shorter periods of instability to accommodate more fundamental revolutionary change. These revolutionary periods then attempt to re-stabilize the organization into a new equilibrium period. From this perspective, organizations resist change because resistance to change establishes…