We present a real-time strategy (RTS) game AI agent that integrates multiple specialist components to play a complete game. Based on an analysis of how skilled human players conceptualize RTS gameplay, we partition the problem space into domains of competence seen in expert human play. This partitioning helps us to manage and take advantage of the large amount of sophisticated domain knowledge ...

This article analyses long-term innovation policies and development trajectories of four renewable energy technologies: wind energy, biomass, fuel cells and hydrogen, and photovoltaics. These trajectories and policies are characterised by many costly failures, setbacks, hypedisappointment cycles, tensions, and struggles. Although setbacks and non-linearities are a normal part of innovation jour...

The current development has turned students into digital natives, also known as the generation, which demands that educators upgrade their competencies to align with present conditions. This research aims understand characteristics and strategies for developing among educators. study adopts a qualitative approach case design. Data collection is conducted through participant observation, in-dept...

After-sales services bundled to products, respectively integrated Product-Service-Systems, have gained financial and strategic importance in manufacturing companies. Not considered as core competence in the beginning, the structures for delivering ASFS have grown over years, becoming more complex and less transparent. As industry still lacks tools and methods for ASFS network design and plannin...

ment of the whole service system is a change intervention. Principles and processes applied in change management are thus a pre-requisite at all levels, from community organisational development level, via the service providers to policy and legislation. Besides systemic intervention and learning processes, this requires strategic planning, focusing on core functions, defining desired impacts a...

Ernie Jordan is Professor of Management at Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney, Australia where he is the Director of the Electronic Commerce Programs and board member of the Macquarie Risk Competence Centre. Ernie was born and educated in the UK, completed his PhD in Hong Kong, and has spent most of his working life in Australia. His major research interests are in electronic com...

The paper unravels the prevalent paradigm that differentiates between the management of a core competence and commodity processes. A case study is conducted to examine the strategic planning and management of a call center. The aim is to illustrate that a commodity process, such as handling customers’ complaints and enquiries, can be significantly beneficial to the business, if a clear value-cr...

Why do firms do what they do? Why does one cut prices while its neighbor buys out competitors? Why does one diversify into new industries while its neighbor spins off subsidiaries to focus on its core competence? Why do some strategies rise while others fall? These are central concerns of both strategic management theorists and economic sociologists. We bring the two fields together to discuss ...

Sustainable competitive advantage is often hidden in unique company capabilities, creating knowledge differentials. In particular core competencies have been recognized as strategic knowledge for a company and defined as capabilities providing customer benefits, hard to be imitated from competitors and possessing leverage potential. Nevertheless the process of extracting core competencies resul...