Value creation: Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone reports on a project designed to help France Telecom generate competitive advantage by developing its people's intrapreneurship skills.(TECHNICAL MATTERS)

Financial Management (Chartered Institude of Management Accountants),  July, 2006  by Rathbone, Cora Lynn Heimer

Tags: competitive advantage, France Telecom

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Globalisation, commoditisation, increasing regulation and shortening product/service life-cycles are squeezing the margins of those former state-owned monopolies that are now responsible for maintaining the infrastructure used by newer, more nimble competitors.

This paradigm challenges the very organisations that form the backbone of developed economies. Prominent among them are companies that began as state-owned utility providers. In charge of what in some cases are nearly anorexic operations, their leaders are seeking new sources of competitive advantage.

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