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- Articles 2007-11-07
- Creating Value Through Strategic Supply Management
- 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...
- White papers 2005-04-21
- The Global Sourcing Networks of French Clothing Retailers: Organizational Patterns and Opportunities for Suppliers' Industrial Upgrading
- This paper adopts a global value chain perspective to analyze the global sourcing patterns of French clothing retailers, and their implications for suppliers' industrial upgrading. A strong growth of French clothing imports has been recorded over the last decades, together with a shift in import origins benefiting Asian and Eastern...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Rebundling of the Auto Finance Industry
- 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...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Strategic Growth by Repositioning Business Within Value Chain
- A pioneer in the GPS, navigation, and guidance technology market was experiencing a progressive, but dramatic, shift in its business. The company had thus become interested in expanding its market position, specifically by broadening its presence in the emerging location-based services business. To capture profits from this market, management believed...
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- Global Sourcing and Value Chain Unbundling
- There is an increasing trend for firms to use a portfolio approach to govern their business processes using multiple sourcing mechanisms involving multiple firms and geographic sites. Managers need guidance and frameworks to select the right sourcing mechanisms for different business processes. This paper develops two research-driven conceptual frameworks to...
- White papers 2004-08-09
- Disaggregation Of The Value Chain: Emergence Of New Business Models In Strategy Consulting
- 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...
- White papers 2004-04-29
- Moving Up The Value Chain: High-Performance Finance In Southeast Asia And Australia
- Accenture research has found that high-performance businesses everywhere share certain characteristics. They are able to balance today and tomorrow, and they consistently outperform the competition across business cycles, industry disruptions and changes in leadership. Demanding standards? Yes. So demanding that fewer than ten percent of the 6,000 organizations Accenture studied...
- White papers 2007-03-15
- Accenture's Supply Chain Academy Helps Dow Optimize The Global Value Chain
- With annual sales of US$54 billion and 46,000 employees worldwide, Dow is a diversified chemical company that combines the power of science and technology with the "Human element" to constantly improve what is essential to human progress. The Accenture Supply Chain Academy helped the Dow Chemical Co. meet its growth...
- Case studies 2008-12-16
- Tomorrow's Global Giants? Not the Usual Suspects
- 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...
- Articles 2009-01-06
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- New INDUSTRYWEEK/Ernst & Young Research Measures Impact of Value-Chain Management; Formal Value-Chain Strategies Improve Manufacturers' Financial Performance
- Business Editors CLEVELAND--BUSINESS WIRE--March 14, 2000 Just how much impact can managing the synchronized flow of product, information, processes, and cash from raw materials to end customers have on a company's profitability and productivity? Plenty, considering that manufacturers who pursue a formal value-chain management strategy not only benefit...
- Research articles 2000-03-14
- The Dynamic Value Chain: Quickly Reducing Complexity
- Dynamic value chain management increases responsiveness across organizational structures. Communication between functional areas improves overall supply chain effectiveness. Dynamic value chain management DVCM is a business methodology that helps companies manage marketplace variability and complexity and align company strategies with execution processes. DVCM helps transform a value chain into a...
- White papers 2002-05-16
- The Success Factors of Mobile Advertising Value Chain
- 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...
- White papers 2004-02-24
- Value Chain Management And Logistics
- The journey of a product starts from the point where raw materials are procured from the suppliers. Then the product passes through several stages until it reaches the customer. At every subsequent stage, some amount of value is imparted to the product until it comes out as the finished product...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Now It's A Job For THE CEO.(top-level value-chain collaboration)
- New IW survey examines the benefits--and barriers--associated with top-level value-chain collaboration. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN TOP-RANKING executives in manufacturing tended to distance themselves from such operational details as supply-chain management or information sharing with upstream and downstream partners in the "value...
- Research articles 2000-03-20
- Knowledge Value Chain: Implementation of New Product Development System in a Winery
- This paper discusses the positive influence that knowledge creation exerts over organizational performance in regard to collaborative learning environmental and quality uncertainty. The paper shows the Knowledge Value Chain KVC would be the best means of expressing the environment and quality condition into corporation rather than the normal value chain...
- White papers 2005-02-08
- Knowledge-Sharing in Value-Chain Networks: Certifying Collaborators for Effective Protection Processes
- Three major trends have come together at the start of the new millennium, raising the stakes for firms seeking to compete in the new economy. Initially, Knowledge Management (KM, also referred to as intellectual capital) poses the idea that every organization holds knowledge in the minds of its personnel that...
- White papers
- Supply Chain Cost Management and Value-Based Pricing
- Continued deflationary trends in many markets around the world are creating greater pressure for cost reduction in order that margins can be maintained. Customers and consumers are increasingly value driven and consequently less brand or supplier loyal. In this challenging world, there is a growing recognition that creative pricing strategies...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Vignette Hosts Webinar with Forrester on Information Value Chain and Enterprise Content Management
- AUSTIN, Texas -- Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq:VIGN) today announced that it will host an informative webcast about the significant role enterprise content management plays in the Information Value Chain of an organization. Forrester Research's Connie Moore, vice president and research director of Forrester's Information Delivery research group, joins Vignette Chief Technical...
- Research articles 2005-03-10
- Performance Management - Remedy for Value Chain Ills
- 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...
- White papers 2004-06-15
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