This week’s topics
Internal Strategic Architecture and Capabilities
- Resource-Based View (RBV)
- Dynamic capabilities assessment
- Threshold versus distinctive capabilities
- VRIO analytical framework
- Leading Strategy Paper Series: “Dynamic Capabilities at IBM: Driving Strategy into Action”
- The Resource-Based View: Resources, Capabilities, and Competitive Advantage
- VRIO Framework EXPLAINED | B2U | Business To You
What you will be able to do
- 2.1 Critically analyse the resources and capabilities of an organisation .
- 2.2 Distinguish between their threshold and distinctive resources and capabilities.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically analyse the resources and capabilities of an organisation .
Study materials
Videos
- Leading Strategy Paper Series: “Dynamic Capabilities at IBM: Driving Strategy into Action” · YouTube · Glenn Parry · 21 min · for registered students
- The Resource-Based View: Resources, Capabilities, and Competitive Advantage · YouTube · Professor Kuban Explains · 14 min · for registered students
- VRIO Framework EXPLAINED | B2U | Business To You · YouTube · Business To You · 14 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Mastering Strategic Management, ch. 4: Managing Firm Resources · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 101–134 · for registered students
- Principles of Management, ch. 9: The Strategic Management Process: Achieving and Sustaining Competitive Advantage · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 261–284 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
