Cisco's corporate development portfolio: A blend of building, borrowing and buying

Strategy and Leadership

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 27-30

  Capron, Laurence ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

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EID: 84875581800     PISSN: 10878572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10878571311318213     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. Leavy, B., "Interview: Laurence Capron analyzes corporate development's build, borrow and buy options," Strategy & Leadership, 2012, 41:2, which explores the main ideas behind the build-borrow-buy resource pathways framework in more depth.
2. Build, Borrow or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma, cited in the editor's note.
3. The term "resource portfolio" is used here to refer to the portfolio of build borrow-buy outcomes at any given point in time in terms of the pathway through which access to each strategic resource concerned was secured and is currently controlled (internal development, contracts, alliances and acquisitions). The primary tool developed in Build, Borrow or Buy to help guide the original choices and also how they should be reassessed for continued relevance over time is the Resource Pathways Framework. Since each of these choices is context-specific, when the context changes, the degree of control over any particular strategic resource may also need to change, so that the overall resource portfolio always remains optimally aligned with prevailing circumstances (so for example, there may come a time when an alliance may need to be converted into an acquisition, or an internal venture later converted to an outsourced contract).