This monograph provides theoretical and practical perspectives on competency management as a
key resource for producing competitive products. The authors develop and substantiate a law of
dependence between competencies and emergence of new markets and describe the practical
aspects of developing competencies in high-tech companies. Further they develop economic and
mathematical models for managing the competitive advantages of a company based on competencies.
Using these models they present a method for evaluating and ranking core competencies as well
as for multi-criteria ratings of human potential efficiency. The book also discusses the
mechanisms of competitiveness management based on a conceptual model of a competence center
network.
