Resources and capabilities - Diagnosing resources and capabilities
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What is the VRIO analysis used for?
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- Supported by the organisation.
What are high order strategic themes?
What 3 points need to be emphasized when mapping activity systems?
- The importance of linkages and fit
- The relationship to VRIO
- Unnecessary activities
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What 2 approaches to benchmarking are there?
- Industry/sector benchmarking. Insights gained by comparing performance against other organisations in the same industry or between similar service providers against a set of performance indicators.
- Best-in-class benchmarking. Compares organisation's performance or capabilities against the 'best-in-class" performance - from whichever industry - and seeks to overcome limitations.
What are the potential limitations of benchmarking?
- Surface comparisons, E.g. when only comparing outputs the underlying resources and capabilities are not directly identified.
- Simply achieving competitive equality.
What is the aim of a SWOT analysis?
What are the 2 main dangers in a SWOT exercise?
- Listing. Can generate very long lists of SWOTs. So prioritization of issues matters.
- A summary, not a substitute. Biased views and lack of specificity are why the other analyses are needed.
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