A&N Strategy Consulting

Tag: knowledge management

  • Tools for Enhancing a Firm’s Strategic Flexibility Capability

    To cope with today’s uncertain, turbulent, and unpredictable business environment, strategic flexibility (SF) has surfaced as an indispensable capability and a measure of success that firms should possess to generate and sustain competitive advantage and achieve superior business performance. Strategic flexibility is considered an important capability for a firm to respond quickly to a turbulent…

  • Successful Innovative Companies Exploit Complex Sources of Competitive Advantages

    A company’s successful innovation outcome doesn’t necessarily result in successful commercialization. When the product progresses from idea generation to the development process into the marketplace is called innovation but can be an unsuccessful one. Kodak developed the Kodak Disc Camera, but it was not commercially successful. To generate profits from innovation your firm should be…

  • How Established Firms Can Innovate Like Startups

    Historically, startups and small business firms have been most successful in creating innovation in contrast to established firms. However, innovation by itself does not differentiate between small and large firms, and any company, therefore, irrespective of size, can innovate successfully. Not every established firm is a failure and not every start-up is successful. Technology is…

  • Role of Intellectual Resources and Knowledge-based Capabilities in Driving Performance and Profitability

    James Brian Quinn, in his book Intelligent Enterprises, describes the term “intellect” as it “is the core resource in producing and delivering services.” 1 A powerful intellect is a strength and by combining strengths a firm can build knowledge-based capabilities that can drive sustainable competitive advantage. The dictionary meaning of “intellect” is the power or…