Core Competencies · Building · Component
The route decision
How a needed competence will be obtained — built, bought, partnered or hired — decided against what it will be worth in three years.
The deliverable
What it is
The four routes differ in cost, speed and in what remains afterwards. Building is slowest and retains most; hiring is fast and portable; acquiring is fastest and hardest to integrate; partnering is cheapest and leaves nothing behind.
The right route depends on how long the competence will matter. Anything expected to be central for a decade is usually worth building however slow that is.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
The options
Each route costed and timed honestly, including the one nobody favours.
3 attributes: Route · Full cost · Time to capability
LearnThe retention
What the organisation still holds if the arrangement ends.
3 attributes: What remains · Held in · Confidence
LearnThe decision
The route chosen, by whom, and against what horizon.
3 attributes: Chosen route · Horizon · Decided by
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Fill in what remains if the arrangement ends. That field changes the decision more often than cost does.
The other components in building
The build plan
How the competence will actually be developed — the work, the people, the sequence, and what it displaces.
LearnThe absorption check
Whether the competence has actually entered the organisation, or is still sitting with the individuals who acquired it.
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