Constantinos C. Markides Quotes

Constantinos C. Markides Cypriot management educator and Robert P. Bauman Professor of Strategic Leadership at London Business School , since 1990. He was listed among the Forbes.com list of Most Influential Management Gurus . Wikipedia

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“Successful innovators have CEOs who act as technology evangelists.”

Constantinos C. Markides

Source: Game-Changing Strategies, 2013, p. 68

“Traditional measures of relatedness provide an incomplete and potentially inaccurate picture of the scope of exploit interrelationships between its SBUs. This is because traditional measures look at relatedness only at the industry or market level. But as we explain below, the relatedness that really matters is that between 'strategic assets' (i. e., those that cannot be accessed quickly and cheaply by nondiversified competitors.) Therefore, to accurately measure whether two businesses are related, we need to go beyond broad definitions of relatedness that focus on market similarity; we need to look at the similarities between the underlying strategic assets of the various businesses that a company is operating in.”

Constantinos C. Markides

Source: "Related diversification, core competences and corporate performance", 1994, p. 150

“A fundamental part of any firm's corporate strategy is its choice of what portfolio of business to compete in. According to the academic literature, this decision should reflect the 'superiority' of related diversification over unrelated diversification… This is because related diversification presumably allows the corporate center to exploit the interrelationships that exist among its different businesses (SBUs) and so achieve cost and/or differentiation competitive advantages over its rivals.”

Constantinos C. Markides

Source: "Related diversification, core competences and corporate performance", 1994, p. 149

“We will argue that the long-run value of a related diversification lies not so much in the exploitation of economies of scope (asset amortization) - where the benefit is primarily short-term - but in allowing corporations to more cost efficiently expand their stocks of strategic assets. Relatedness, which opens the way for asset improvement, asset creation and asset fission, holds the key to the long-run competitive advantages of diversification. This means that in most cases, similarities in the processes by which strategic assets are expanded and new assets are created are more important than static similarities between the strategic assets that are the outcome of these processes.”

Constantinos C. Markides

Source: "Related diversification, core competences and corporate performance", 1994, p. 150

“Successful innovators are early adopters of ICT in their industry, even if the technology is already dispersed in other industries.”

Constantinos C. Markides

Source: Game-Changing Strategies, 2013, p. 67

“Successful innovators focused on technology as a driver of value, not just as a tool for operational efficiency.”

Constantinos C. Markides

Source: Game-Changing Strategies, 2013, p. 66

“The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works.”

Constantinos C. Markides

Constantinos C. Markides. "Competitive strategy research's impact on practice," in: Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, Giovanni Battista Dagnino<sup></sup> (ed.), 2012 p. 561

“It is important here to clarify the difference between 'strategic assets' and 'core competences.' Strategic assets are assets that underpin a firm's cost or differentiation advantage in a particular market and that are imperfectly imitable, imperfectly substitutable and imperfectly tradeable. These assets also tend to be market- specific. An example would be Honda's dealer network distributing and servicing its motorbikes. On the other hand, core competences are the pool of experience, knowledge and systems, etc. that can be deployed to reduce the cost or time required in creating or expanding the stock of strategic assets.”

Constantinos C. Markides

Source: "Related diversification, core competences and corporate performance", 1994, p. 164

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