Making the most of your firm's capabilities

Roberto Evaristo; Srilata Zaheer

doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2014.01.004

Making the most of your firm's capabilities

Roberto Evaristo, Srilata Zaheer

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Abstract

In this Executive Digest, we make the case that aggregate individual expertise as a resource and intrinsic capability of the firm are hidden in plain sight, or worse, are assumed to exist where they do not. With high levels of complexity, business diversity, and number of geographical locations, the issue becomes even more acute. We propose strategic resource mapping (SRM) as a methodology designed to provide top managers with a rapid, comprehensive, and penetrating assessment of a firm's 'meta-capability': an actionable overview of the capabilities that exist within the firm. Based on multiple successful implementations, we describe the key features of SRM and provide several illustrations.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	329-335
Number of pages	7
Journal	Business Horizons
Volume	57
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2014.01.004
State	Published - May 2014

Keywords

Capabilities
Human resource management
Meta-capability
Networks
Resource mapping
Strategy

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