Hamel & Prahalad Core Competence Framework
Hamel and Prahalad argue that lasting advantage comes from a small set of enterprise wide core competencies, so structure and resources should be organized around nurturing those capabilities rather than around individual product lines.
Gary Hamel & C.K. Prahalad, 1990
The origin of the framework, as the directory records it. The mark grades the origin, not this page.
Umbrex, Hamel & Prahalad Core Competence Framework
The directory entry this score was read from. Umbrex is a consultancy network; its summary is the reference, not a primary source.
Scored against the twelve cells, it loads three: Strategy, Structure, and Resources. The other nine it leaves to you. None of Composition, Evidence, or Mastery is among them, which is the usual result in this directory: the questions an agent in the loop raises first are the ones the literature answers least.
This is not a summary of the framework. Umbrex has one; the link under Sources goes there.
Where on the evolution curve does each capability sit, and does that dictate build, buy, or let go?
What is the smallest unit that can own a customer outcome end to end?
What is owned, what is rented, and what is summoned only when needed?
