Strategic Management - United Nations Mission in Liberia

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Running head: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Strategic Management
(United Nations Mission in Liberia)
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Executive summary
The UNMIL or “United Nations Mission in Liberia” is one of the peacekeeping force that was been
established during 2003 in the month of September. This is meant for monitoring the ceasefire
agreement that took place at Liberia after Charles Taylor, the president resigned and as the Second
Liberian Civil war was finished. It was a peacekeeping mission. This withdrew during 2018 on 30th
March. In the following report, a real-life case study of UNMIL regarding core competency is
chosen along with identifying the methods and benefits of deployment of the concept.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:..........................................................................................................................................3
Presenting a real-life case study of the concept already chosen:...........................................................3
Discussion on the selected concept in strategic management:..........................................................3
The reason behind the implementation of core competence UNMIL:..............................................3
Ways of implementation of core competencies by United Nations Mission in Liberia:...................5
Conclusion:............................................................................................................................................7
References:............................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction:
The United Nations Mission in Liberia also known as UNMIL has been established from the
side of Security Council Resolution 1509 (2003). This is to support the deployment of agreement of
ceasefire vase along with peace measures. It was intended to give protection to staffs of United
Nations, civilians and facilities, supporting human rights activities and humanitarians. They were
also meant to assist the reform of national security involving training of national police and forming
nee restructured military ("UNMIL", 2020).
Presenting a real-life case study of the concept already chosen:
Discussion on the selected concept in strategic management:
For the present research, the core competency was chosen. Nevertheless, this never indicates
that the other competencies should be ignored and neglected. Instead of this, the idea beyond the
idea that companies should be leveraging on core strengths and playing the benefits.
The reason behind the implementation of core competence UNMIL:
The organization intends to support the government and people to take the identified
priorities forwards. This involves decentralization, constitutional reform, national reconciliation
while improving support for the rule of law reforms and security support. At this quick-moving
world of disruption and innovations, initially, the leaders of UNMIL have wondered that it had been
no longer beneficial ("UNMIL", 2020). They have asked the question hat whether the business core
competencies, distinct combinations of resources and capabilities had made their business different
in terms of operations and provided the benefits the competitive edges that have been a strategic tool
of past. This has been long years and a huge focus to grasp these diverse types of activities, skills

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and technologies for near perfections (Brydges et al. 2017). Otherwise, this has been to the specific
point that they must be complicated to get replicated by different competitors. Hence, they have still
been worth to play the prolonged game for the fast-changing marketplace has remained as a query.
This has been beneficial for UNMIL to various areas. Firstly, it has raised the value of their service
and products. Identification and honing the core competencies have enabling to provide unique value
to their people. For doing that, the United Nations Mission in Liberia has required to know what has
been valued by the customers. As they have determined the suitable core customer along with
finishing the research what the required, they have attempted to develop their core competencies
substantially benefitting them (Davies & Rushton, 2016). This they couldn’t have imagined living
without. Their core competencies have been useful to develop brand along with the loyalty of people
and government of Liberia. An instance of core competencies from other popular international
business has provided the United Nations Mission in Liberia with the fuel or thinking more clearly in
defining them (Glajchen et al. 2018).
Next, they have needed to focus and then align the investments and energy of the
peacekeeping mission team. Identification of the core competencies United Nations Mission in
Liberia intended for advancement helps allocate resources suitably. They have needed to
communicate their competencies to the company and then get their people to be involved in
developing their areas more. Having the rest of their foundation of core strategies, understanding
their core competencies provided to filter opportunities as they never help to gain their prolonged
strategies that involve the development of core competencies, UNMIL has thought to say no
(Ruggeri, Dorussen & Gizelis, 2018). To determine the place to spend training and then research the
resources, those were used for enhancing the ability of the peacekeeping mission team to leverage
core competencies and then implement them further (Warner, Ham and Fenton 2017). Here, they
have required to seek the right strategic partner that could be helpful for the United Nations Mission

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in perfecting their strengths. Further, they have required to outsource the tasks that have never been
part of the interconnected web of tasks and various processes creating the core competencies. Lastly,
there is the necessity to provide a platform that is needed for innovation. As the United Nations
Mission has analyzed the fact, their determining the core competencies has been helpful to branch to
broad varieties of different related markets. Stating in other words, as they have erected the
competencies, they have few tools leveraged to innovate in additional ways (Mulder et al. 2018).
Thus United Nations Mission has proved the ways to utilize its core competencies to other markets
and disrupt that at their market and then widen domains where they have been innovating.
Ways of implementation of core competencies by United Nations Mission in Liberia:
UNMIL supports the collaboration and coordination with PBC or Peace-building
Commission along with backing the finishing of security and justice hub. The core competencies
have been differentiating UNMIL from its competitors. They have been useful in developing their
competitive benefit in the marketplace (Mvukiyehe, 2017). Typically, core competency has been
indicating the skill set of them or experiencing in few activities instead of financial or physical
resources. Their core competency has been strategic strength. For instance, they have followed
Honda’s strategic strength that has been in their engine along with propulsion systems. Again, Sony
had the core competency in the area of miniaturization (Barney 2017). Further, Federal Express has
core competencies in customer service and logistics. There have been three tests that could be
implemented for determining the core competencies. The core competency has led to the
development of new services and products for UNMIL, along with delivering potential access to a
broad variety of business markets. This has made notable contributions to the benefits perceived of
the ultimate products. This has been complicated for their competitors to imitate in various industries
(Moore et al. 2018). Those competencies have been likely unique.

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The idea of core competency has been developed in the area of management. This has been
the sector of specialized expertise resulting in the harmonizing of complicated channels of
technology and various activities. Here, they have cited the instance of expertise of Honda for the
engines enabled that to develop various well-regarded products that involve the lawnmower,
automobiles and snow blowers. Further, they have identified and developed their core competencies
that have been contributing to sustaining the long term competitive benefits of UNMIL (Espinoza
and Ukleja 2016). To find the core competency of UNMIL, the underpinning knowledge, processes,
technologies, ability and skills enabling to deliver distinct use of services and products are identified.
They have determined how they could use their core competencies in developing the strategic
responsiveness for achieving competitive benefits (Pidgeon 2017). Moreover, UNMIL being a high-
performing business developed the latest core competencies and widened their preset one for
entering the latest and future markets. At that level of activity, the United Nations Mission has
identified the necessities of customs under the future and latest markets and developed competencies
needed for meeting the perquisites. For example, the distinctive competence of Apple has been the
process of product design. Having an iPod, it is seen Apple has combined elements of jukebox
software that can arrange a huge amount of songs, MP3 players that could store huge amounts of
songs such that they could be used simply (Sokół and Figurska 2017). Here, simplicity as being the
core attribute making iPod revolutionary product changing expectation of consumes. The leadership
of the company aware than the most effective strategy has been eventually failing until that has been
monitored continually and been refreshed for meeting the changes in market scenarios (Haupt,
Kapucu and Hu 2017).
Thus the various steps that have been undertaken by the United Nations Mission are
demonstrated hereafter. Firstly, they must have isolated the primary capabilities and then
implemented them for the strengths that are organization-wide. Next, they had to compare

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themselves with various other organizations having similar skills for ensuring that unique
capabilities could be developed (Ravier et al., 2016). Then, an understanding is to be developed of
that abilities are actually valued by people and government of Liberia and then invest accordingly to
sustain and develop the value strengths. Then, an organizational roadmap is to be created, setting
goals related to building competence. The licensing arrangements, acquisitions and pursue alliances
are performed that can further develop the strength in core sectors of the United Nations Mission
(Fosse 2017). Next, they have encouraged communication and included in the development of core
capability around their business. The core strengths are to be preserved as the management widens
then redefines their business. Lastly, they have divested or outsourced the noncore abilities for
freeing up different resources that could be utilized for deepening core abilities (Glasser and Hirsh
2016).
Conclusion:
The core competency is the capability that they acquire from their founders and essential
developments that could never be imitated easily. The chosen organization, UNMIL intends to
continue their support towards the government of Liberia. This is to consolidate stability and peace
in the nation and secure the civilians. United Nations Mission has used core competencies that have
been helpful for them to design competitive positions and various strategies capitalizing on corporate
strengths. Next, this has unified their business around business units and various functional units
along with developing knowledge transfer and different expertise among them. Furthermore, this has
helped their staff to know the priorities of management. The use of technology is to be integrated to
carry out the business processes and decide the place for allocating the resources. Further, the
outsourcing is to be made with divertimento and various partnering decisions. Apart from that, the
domain is to be widened where they innovate and then spawn the latest services and products. Next,

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investments are to be made in new markets and enter the emerging marketplace quickly. Lastly, the
images are to be enhanced and customer loyalty has been built.
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