{"id":76868,"date":"2019-12-18T12:54:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T10:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svadvisory.com\/the-perpetual-race-for-competitiveness-and-its-enemies\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T17:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:59:40","slug":"the-perpetual-race-for-competitiveness-and-its-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svadvisory.com\/en\/the-perpetual-race-for-competitiveness-and-its-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"The perpetual race for competitiveness and its enemies."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Resources and capabilities are different at the very basic level: <\/span><\/h3>\r\n

whereas resources<\/strong> are tangible assists (may they be goods are people), capabilities<\/strong> are what make a resource become a product. Having said that, resources are pivotal for the development of capabilities, and location matters a lot: if a country has plenty of rare or appealing resources (e.g. China and the immense number of engineers and vocational training schemes)<\/strong>, it will look very attractive for a foreign direct investment.<\/p>\r\n

CSA – FSA<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n

What a firm does by using resources is commonly know as a capability; roughly speaking, a resource could be seen as a Country Specific Asset (CSA), while capabilities are more Firm Specific Assets (FSA); in theory, not all resources are CSA, while not all FSA are capabilities, but this would drive our discussion quite too far.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Indeed, know how<\/strong> is the ideal metrics to assess the interaction between resources and capabilities. If a firm knows how to enhance the potential of a resource though outstanding capabilities, its know how will be a key to success<\/strong>. However, many firms tend to be too reliant on their capabilities and for too long. This is evident in firms that focus mainly on learning by doing: being incremental in nature, cabilities based on repetitions and adaptations have a foreseeable lifecycle set by competitors innovations. In few words, capabilities and disruptive innovations (read new ways to produce or to deliver a service) are the right equation to keep a firm competitive; it is compelling to say that static mindsets among managers is a death sentence: in 2012, Kodak<\/strong> filed for bankruptcy, while selling its patents for a staggering 525 USD millions<\/strong>, and that shows how innovation is important even for tech intensive companies. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In conclusion, firms need to invest in research and development<\/strong>, avoiding being reliant on learning by doing or at least understand when the incremental capability should overrun by change, and this is where advisory<\/strong> is much needed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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