Typesis of key abilities of the enterprise

Modern conditions of functioning of industrial enterprises are characterized by a high degree of uncertainty and dynamism of the external environment, increased competition in domestic and foreign markets, which determines the need to search for new approaches to forming the competitive advantages of the enterprise. In the conditions of unpredictable and chaotically changing external environment, the enterprise’s task is to timely respond to such changes. However, it is impossible to foresee the changes that occur daily on the external and internal markets, in a competitive environment, among partners and counterparties, changes associated with the emergence of new technology, products and technologies, and even more so in time to react to them through strategic and tactical changes. This forces enterprises to look for the basis for forming competitive advantages in the internal environment, based on available resources, capabilities and competencies. Configurations of such assets create stable business attributes that are difficult to copy and inherit from competitors and create the basis for the formation of the company’s competitive advantages - the key capabilities of the enterprise. Competitive advantages based on key capabilities are sustainable, long-term and difficult to copy. The article explores the types of capabilities of the enterprise depending on the characteristics of the subject area, which allowed to form a typification of the capabilities of the enterprise. This typification serves as the basis for identifying and analyzing capabilities, their consolidation and reconfiguration in order to ensure the competitive advantages of the enterprise. Provision of competitive advantages of the enterprise based on the formation and development of its key capabilities is possible due to the identification of key business attributes, the consolidation and reconfiguration of which will allow to form the key capabilities of the enterprise and transform them into competitive advantages.