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Value Chain: the sequence of business activities by which, in the perspective of the end user, value is added to products or services produced by an organization; Value Chain definition on BNET »

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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...; Tags: PRTM, value chain, GPS, team, strategy; Case studies
RFID for Aerospace and Defense From IBM: It is not unusual to have six or seven tiers between the systems integrator and the lowest member of a value chain. Most aerospace and defense companies lack the necessary infrastructure to seamlessly integrate the growing network of external partners and suppliers in their value chain. The key to integration...; Tags: Channel management, Aerospace & Defense, value chain, aerospace, RFID, IBM Corp., supplier, network; White papers
The Innovation value chain: The Idea in Brief ...; Tags: Morten T. Hansen, Julian Birkinshaw, value chain, collaboration, innovation; Articles 2007-11-07
Power Relationships Along The value chain: Multinational Firms, Global Buyers, And Local Suppliers' Performance: 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...; Tags: Channel management, value chain, Thailand, supplier, performance; White papers 2006-12-11
value chains Versus Supply Chains: 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...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Channel management, Arizona State University, value chain, supply chain; White papers 2006-03-01

Upgrading Claims Processing IT: New Claims Technology value chain Can Deliver Efficiency and Savings: Loss costs and processing expenses devour three-quarters of every premium dollar, and old-line claims processing systems haven't got what it takes to reduce claims outflows - but replacing them is rarely practical or cost-effective. The paper outlines that staying competitive means embracing integrative techniques and technologies that extend the value...; Tags: BearingPoint Inc., value chain, IT infrastructure, information technology, technique; White papers 2005-07-05
Treasury System Design: A value chain Approach: 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...; Tags: Channel management, Financial accounting, IMF, value chain, accountability, financial; White papers 2005-07-01
Empowering The Lean value chain: This white paper addresses the application of lean manufacturing techniques within the enterprise and across the supply chain, and introduces QAD's new Lean Manufacturing module as an effective and comprehensive means of achieving that goal. It explains how lean manufacturing has proved itself in the field - and where we...; Tags: TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Supply chain management (SCM), Lean Manufacturing, QAD, supply chain, value chain; White papers 2005-06-29
Suppliers Fly Up the value chain for Airplane Manufacturers: Aerospace represents, more than any other industry, a very extensive outsourced supply chain - about 80 percent of the airplane is now outsourced. Aerospace firms do so little of their own manufacturing, in fact, that companies like Boeing think of themselves more as large-scale systems integrators than airplane manufacturers. This...; Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Outsourcing, Channel management, Everest Group, aerospace, outsource, value chain, profit margin, manufacturing, supplier, industry; White papers 2005-06-15
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...; Tags: Managerial accounting, Purchasing & Procurement, Channel management, Strategy, Leadership, A.T. Kearney, cost management, value chain, sourcing, risk management, competitive advantage, supply chain, leader; White papers 2005-04-21
The Customer Experience value chain: Forrester's evaluations confirm what companies already know — they deliver subpar experiences to customers. But it's not for lack of trying. Companies say that improving customer experience is a critical objective. Our research uncovered a pattern in the customer experience best practices that we found. Forrester calls this underlying commonality...; Tags: Forrester Research Inc., organizational culture, best practice; Research reports 2005-03-15
Modernizing Retailing Worldwide At The Point Of Sale: The premier real-world roll-out of new information technologies excites an industry. The METRO Group's Future Store (FS) by a group of companies organized as the Future Store Initiative (FSI) is such a roll-out. It demonstrates how to significantly change today's worldwide shopping, retailing, and value chain logistics. FS is based...; Tags: Channel management, value chain, point-of-sale, logistics, industry, information technology; White papers 2004-12-01
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...; Tags: Channel management, Financial accounting, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., value chain, finance, financing, acquisition, industry; White papers 2004-11-01
value chain Profiling: 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...; Tags: Channel management, value chain, manufacturing company, benchmarking, manufacturing; White papers 2004-10-01
The Move to Artist-Led Online Music Distribution: Explaining Structural Changes in the Digital Music Market: 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...; Tags: Digital media, University of Minnesota, digital music, value chain; White papers 2004-09-12
Benchmarking Project Internationalising the value chain Successfully: 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...; Tags: Benchmarking, Value Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, Channel Management, Marketing; White papers 2004-08-10
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...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, University of Texas, sourcing, business process, value chain; White papers 2004-08-09
Supply Chain Management: New Competitive Realities in the Automotive value chain: 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...; Tags: Channel management, Supply chain management (SCM), Mergers & Acquisitions, Manufacturing, IBM Corp., supplier, value chain, manufacturer, SCM, supply chain, merger, industry, acquisition; White papers 2004-07-13
Supply Chain Management: New Competitive Realities in the Automotive value chain - Results of an IBM and OSAT Study: 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...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Channel management, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, IBM Corp., SCM, supplier, supply chain, manufacturer, value chain, cost reduction, industry, merger, shareholder, acquisition, health care; White papers 2004-07-02
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...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Channel management, Montgomery Research Inc., value chain, supply chain, performance management, performance, wall; White papers 2004-06-15