Dynamic Capabilities: An AI-Generated Overview

This mini-episode was created with AI tools. Utilizing Professor David Teece's published works, Steve Outtrim of aiLevelUp facilitated the generation of a brief review of the dynamic capabilities framework narrated by a virtual "SudoDavid." Here, SudoDavid discusses the historical origins of dynamic capabilities as a shift in understanding on competitive advantage, the three key pillars of the framework: sensing, seizing, and transforming*, and practical applications for managers. Listen and explore what AI tools can produce as of September 2025. (*Of note, the AI tools replaced the term "transforming" with "reconfiguring" as the third pillar of dynamic capabilities in this episode.) To learn more about the concepts discussed in this episode, here are some links to foundational readings by Professor Teece. Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management (with Gary Pisano and Amy Shuen), Strategic Management Journal 18:7 (August 1997), 509–533. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199708)18:7%3C509::AID-SMJ882%3E3.0.CO;2-Z Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Agility: Risk, Uncertainty, and Strategy in the Innovation Economy. With Margaret Peteraf and Sohvi Leih. California Management Review, August 1, 2016, Volume 58, Issue 4, https://doi.org/10.1525/cmr.2016.58.4.13 Profiting from Technological Innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy, Research Policy 15:6 (December 1986), 285– 305, https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-7333(86)90027-2 (Selected by the editors as one of the best papers published by Research Policy over the period 1971–1991. Noted in 1999 as the most cited paper ever published in Research Policy.) Reflections on “Profiting from Innovation, Research Policy, Volume 35, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1131-1146, ISSN 0048-7333, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2006.09.009