Since Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad put forth the idea of “core competencies” in a 1990 Harvard Business Review article, “The Core Competence of the Corporation,” organizations have taken this insight as ...

Real-world demonstration of skills on the job is more reliable than hours logged or written tests for ensuring safety.

A knowledgeable, skilled and well-trained workforce is critical to a company's success. Improving competencies allows an organization to remain adaptable and competitive, ultimately contributing to ...

Educators are increasingly getting behind a big idea: organize learning and recognize achievement based on students’ mastery of a defined set of competencies. Competency-based education, also known as ...

The idea of core competence was introduced into management literature in 1990 by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel. The two business academics wrote: Core competencies are the collective learning in the ...