Strategy Dynamics Briefing 73: Intangible resources – getting some clarity

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We all know that ‘soft’ factors are important – we need motivation amongst our staff, reputation with potential customers, effective processes to get things done, good data that is up to date, and powerful capabilities for developing products, for example. Unfortunately, there is little agreement in strategy books and articles on what those soft items actually are, the categories into which they fall, or how they can be specified and measured.

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Strategy Dynamics Briefing 10: Defining, Specifying and Measuring Tangible Resources

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What would be a useful checklist of tangible resources?… customers, products, production capacity, staff and cash.

Since organizations exist to “supply” some form of “demand,” let’s look at demand-side resources first…

The most obvious resource on the demand side of the relationship is “customers” – or clients, users or other terms, depending on the industry. Two important issues to consider are, first, that customers may come in multiple varieties (think consumer/business for telecoms, or leisure/business customers for hotels). Secondly, a company may ...

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