distinctive competence

This type of audit seeks to ensure that a business maintains a distinctive competence that allows it to build and reinforce its competitive advantage.

Hey (1979) suggests that Seebohm employed a variety of understandings, shifting from concentration on closely defined function to notions of distinctive competence.

"We started with research and we have stayed with our distinctive competence," said Terrence R. Connelly, Cowen's head of investment banking.

"We've established enough organizations whose distinctive competence is investigating and publicizing scandalous allegations of various sorts," said Suzanne Garment, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a research group.

Simon's distinctive competence is that he is one of a select number of global management experts with dual knowledge of both business strategy & technology management and Asian business systems and cultures.