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Dynamic capabilities

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, dynamic capabilities means: An organisation's abilities to renew and reconfigure its resources and competences as conditions change.

In Turkish: dinamik yetenekler

How it is used

Use in strategy analysis to discuss adaptation of capabilities, rather than simply efficient routine operations.

Example sentences

  1. The firm's dynamic capabilities helped it redirect engineering skills from engines to battery systems.

    Existing expertise is recombined to address a different technological environment.

  2. Efficient factories alone did not prove that the group had strong dynamic capabilities.

    Operational efficiency does not establish an ability to renew the resource base.

Common collocations

  • develop dynamic capabilities
  • dynamic capabilities framework
  • change managementThe planned way an organisation prepares, supports and guides people through a major change, such as a new system or a merger, so that the change is accepted and lasts.
  • competitive advantageSomething that allows a company to do better than its competitors, such as lower costs, a stronger brand, better technology or more skilled people.

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