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		<title><![CDATA[eMusic Owner Looking To Buy Up All Of The Orchard]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-emusic-owner-looking-to-buy-up-all-of-the-orchard%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ eMusic owner JDS Capital&#8217;s private equity arm Dimensional Associates is negotiating with digital music and video distributor The Orchard to buy up all of the outstanding common stock it does not already own.Dimensional previously owned The Orchard (NSDQ: ORCD) prior to its 2007 merger with Digital Music Group Inc...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:09:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Managing Sustainable Value Chains]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/09/11/managing-sustainable-value-chains/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In the period from the 1960s to the 1980s, Japanese industry taught the world a lot about managing value chains.    Now that we have committed to more sustainable practices, these lessons have never been so important.    By minutely managing every aspect of the value...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:28:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rising Oil Prices Eclipse Weak Solar Industry Fundamentals]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As crude oil futures cross the $72 a barrel mark, advocates of solar energy are trumpeting an industry turnaround across the photovoltaic supply chain. But judging from comments by chief executive Tom Zarrella of GT Solar, a supplier of fabrication equipment, a rebound in customer demand is unlikely to occur...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:39:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tomorrow's Global Giants? Not the Usual Suspects]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2439-13056_23-251161.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[              In the largest emerging markets, established multinationals and local players are battling for dominance. Conventional wisdom says MNCs rule in high-end, knowledge-intensive businesses; local companies, in low-end segments where production and logistics matter most.  But...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:47:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Go-To-Market Model - The Value Chain]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=950705]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Clearly, you will need to make adjustments to suit your individual business but the general principles will apply to any business. If your business is not working as well as you might like, there is probably a gap or a weakness in your go-to-market model. The whole process must be...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Total Value Chain Learning: A Feature Of The High-Performance Learning Organization]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=956089]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Learning programs for channel partners have both quantitative and qualitative benefits. Looking just at the hard numbers, a number of corporate universities are finding that such programs can cut costs and also contribute to revenue growth. ST University, for example, the corporate university of ST Microelectronics, has opened its university...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company 2009 Business Update Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions  Our first question comes from Robert Koort - Goldman Sachs. Robert Koort - Goldman Sachs I wondered if you could give us a little more specificity particularly in the fourth quarter with the volume erosion in terms of geographic pressure?  Secondly, what gives...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:03:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Power Relationships Along The Value Chain: Multinational Firms, Global Buyers, And Local Suppliers' Performance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313800]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a growing literature exploring the increasing fragmentation of production processes and the evolution of internationally-dispersed but functionally-integrated economic activities. However, most of this literature appears to neglect an important part of the story, that is the form and the organization of the relationships the governance among the various...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Value Chains Versus Supply Chains]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=271742]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of a Value Chain has existed for twenty years but the authors find it still is an unclear concept. It has been suggested that the third generation supply chain is based on customer intimacy and is fully synchronized. In this paper, the authors discuss the need to relate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Treasury System Design: A Value Chain Approach]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=151026]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Treasury systems enable governments to prepare financial plans, implement annual budgets, handle cash resources, provide fiscal accounts, and ensure control and accountability. The design of these systems varies considerably across countries, reflecting differences in priorities, country capacities, and political traditions. The paper develops a generic value chain for a treasury...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Creating Value Through Strategic Supply Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=138268]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Leaders in the study are creating value and gaining competitive advantage from supply markets by focusing on four areas: Innovation and growth, value chain optimization, advanced cost management techniques, risk management and supply continuity. Customer demands for a constant stream of new products and features as well as increased competition...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rebundling of the Auto Finance Industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=143165]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A systematic unbundling and review of each stage in the value chain can shed some light on the possible future for automotive finance. Unlike the mortgage industry, auto finance in the United States continues to be dominated by a set of vertically integrated competitors, each performing all three major activities...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Value Chain Profiling]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=277034]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper presents a framework for value chain profiling developed by researchers at Sintef and NTNU, within SMARTLOG, a research program funded by the Norwegian research council. The framework is a first step in an attempt to develop a value chain description scheme, and the purpose of the framework is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Move to Artist-Led Online Music Distribution: Explaining Structural Changes in the Digital Music Market]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=125597]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper proposes a model for understanding the transformation of the market structure in the recorded music industry value chain due to new forms of digital distribution. It takes into account the traditional music industry's value chain and distribution network, and the product characteristics of digital music as they relate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Benchmarking Project Internationalising the Value Chain Successfully]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=163942]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Studies from Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Consulting Company Droege & Comp. revealed that nearly every second industrial company in Germany will relocate partial or total production abroad during the next three years. 70% of all manufacturing companies enquired have already moved parts of their organisation during the last...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Supply Chain Management: New Competitive Realities in the Automotive Value Chain]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=256317]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The automotive industry faces one of the most demanding phases of its recent evolution. Fierce competition means that some manufacturers and suppliers face mergers or acquisitions, or ultimately exiting the business. Manufacturers' and suppliers' responses as they confront these obstacles will determine which companies will still be part of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Supply Chain Management: New Competitive Realities in the Automotive Value Chain - Results of an IBM and OSAT Study]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=138224]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The automotive industry faces one of the most demanding phases of its recent evolution. Fierce competition means that some manufacturers and suppliers will face mergers or acquisitions, or ultimately exiting the business. Manufacturers' and suppliers' responses as they confront these obstacles will determine which companies will still be part of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Performance Management - Remedy for Value Chain Ills]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=176420]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A supply chain simply moves products across multiple trading partners whereas a value chain generates a profit accomplishing this. Measuring true performance, not just hundreds of metrics destined for little use in briefing books, is a major challenge for supply chain managers. Increasingly measures must widen their horizon beyond the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/montgomery+research+inc..html"><![CDATA[Montgomery Research Inc.]]></category>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/remedy+corp..html"><![CDATA[Remedy Corp.]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Disaggregation Of The Value Chain: Emergence Of New Business Models In Strategy Consulting]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=288036]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The paper explores the predominant driving-forces shaping the strategy consulting industry. Clients have become more demanding and their skill gaps in relation to strategy consultants are narrowing. The instant availability of global information has precipitated an erosion of the competitive advantage of integrated players running internal research and knowledge building...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Success Factors of Mobile Advertising Value Chain]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=162213]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This article aims to obtain a comprehensive understanding of mobile advertising (m-advertising) value chain from industry's point of view on one hand, and from consumer's viewpoint on the other hand. In this paper the authors develop a model describing the critical success factors of m-advertising value chain. This 5C model...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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