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	Value Chain Strategy
		Value chain strategy relates to structural supply chain planning encompassing the entire design / source / make / deliver process.
		This is of critical importance as the structure of a value chain typically locks in 80% of total costs.
		The objective of value chain strategy is to design a supply chain that provides the right balance of flexibility and cost-efficiency to meet the requirements of the marketplace.
	www.flextronics.com /en/SimFlex/Solutions/ValueChainStrategy/tabid/105/Default.aspx (200 words)

	Value Chain Analysis
		When performing a Value Chain analysis you examine all activities, looking at whether they are firstly still needed, and then to examine ways of firstly improving efficiency and trying to achieve cost reductions to increase the profit margins for the business.
		Value chain analysis is a way of assessing competitive advantage by determining the strategic advantages and disadvantages of the full range of activities that shape the final offering to the consumer.
		Value chain analysis enables a company to better understand which segments, distribution channels, price points, product differentiation, selling propositions and which value chain configurations (i.e., linkages between activities/processes within and outside the company) will yield the greatest competitive advantage.
	www.cit.gu.edu.au /teaching/1508CIT/value_chain.htm (330 words)

	Value chain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The value chain was described and popularized by Michael Porter in his 1985 best-seller, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, New York, NY The Free Press.
		The value chain categorizes the generic value-adding activities of an organization.
		The Value Network may be the mental model that embraces the linear Value Chain Model and that adds an extra dimension for those seeking to make sense of complexity as we see it in organizations and their environment today.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Value_chain (633 words)

	VALUE CHAIN MANAGEMENT
		Collaboration with other chain members and application of lean techniques to supplier's operations allows the chain to respond rapidly in a continuously changing market.
		Value chain is a high-level model of how businesses receive raw materials as input, add value to the raw materials through various processes, and sell finished products to customers.
		Value chain leadership requires cultivation of a shared vision in all participants.
	www.1000ventures.com /business_guide/im_value_chain_main.html (912 words)

	Strategic Approach to Value Chain Integration (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For those interested in integrating their value chain or internal or external applications, there are several Domain groups working to define common interfaces by which integration can be achieved.
		So whether your company is just starting with the integration of your value chain, or if you are ready to help define the industry interfaces, the OMG has the methodology, proven success record, and forum to help you achieve your desired level of participation.
		However, the value that can be gained today in defining and using common interfaces for your customers and suppliers, as well as interfaces that you will use as a customer of other businesses, will make integrating value chains a reality not just now, but into the future.
	www.omg.org /news/whitepapers/value_chain.htm (4518 words)

	What is a value chain - Value Chain Partnerships for a Sustainable Agriculture
		A value chain is a string of companies or collaborating players who work together to satisfy market demands for specific products or services.
		Local and regional food value chains have shorter travel distances between where the food or fiber is produced (the farm) to where it is processed, distributed and sold.
		VCPSA's central goal is to use collaborative approaches to support new and existing value chains that promote local ownership and influence environmental stewardship and economic sustainability for all members of the value chain.
	www.valuechains.org /valuechain.html (565 words)

	The Value Chain
		The value chain also is useful in outsourcing decisions.
		The development of a competitive advantage depends not only on the firm-specific value chain, but also on the value system of which the firm is a part.
		Applying the value chain to understand the role of technology in competitive advantage.
	www.quickmba.com /strategy/value-chain (642 words)

	Value Chain
		The value chain concept was described by Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School in his 1985 best-seller, The Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance.
		Companies typically organize to support their value chain, so that specific departments are responsible for each value driver, but this is not always the case.
		A customer’s value chain will likely deviate from the general model, or a company may only participate in part of the value chain represented.
	opentext.com /2/sol-industry/sol-ind-media/sol-media-value-chain.htm (258 words)

	Value Chain and Operations Strategy for Data Services - Huawei
		Therefore, the looming challenge for operators is not in the technology, but in seeking positions in the new value chain and exploring the most effective operational strategies for their target markets.
		The value chain for voice services is very simple, however, a mature value chain for mobile data service is relatively complex, consisting of mobile operators, network equipment vendors, handset manufacturers, content providers and application providers, service integrators, platform providers, and customers.
		To be the key player in value chain is to ensure that the operator owns the ability to utilize the resources of the whole chain, occupies a favorable position, and maximizes profits.
	www.huawei.com /publications/view.do?id=217&cid=90&pid=61 (797 words)

	VCOR - Training Options - Value Chain Group
		The VCG Executive Briefing features the Value Chain Operations Reference (VCOR) model which is the cornerstone of the organization’s worldwide activities.
		Value chain reference models are now the leading edge for globally competitive companies who want to identify and integrate improvements to optimize processes across all business domains.
		We present the expected benefits from a de facto standard value chain reference model, the scope of processes covered by VCOR and its architecture.
	www.value-chain.org /en/cms/?261 (596 words)

	Value Chain - Publications - Management Portal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The value chain analysis describes the activities the organization performs and links them to the organizations competitive position.
		Value chain analysis describes the activities within and around an organization, and relates them to an analysis of the competitive strength of the organization.
		Nevertheless, members of a value system can cooperate to improve their efficiency and to reduce their costs in order to achieve a higher total margin to the benefit of all of them (e.g.
	www.themanager.org /models/ValueChain.htm (711 words)

	Value Chain Framework (Porter)
		The Value Chain framework of Michael Porter is a model that helps to analyze specific activities through which firms can create value and competitive advantage.
		Once the value chain has been defined, a cost analysis can be performed by assigning costs to the value chain activities.
		Normally, the Value Chain of a company is connected to other Value Chains and is part of a larger Value Chain.
	www.12manage.com /methods_porter_value_chain.html (388 words)

	Value Chain Analysis
		To better understand the activities through which a firm develops a competitive advantage and creates shareholder value, it is useful to separate the business system into a series of value-generating activities referred to as the value chain.
		Once the value chain is defined, a cost analysis can be performed by assigning costs to the value chain activities.
		Because technology is employed to some degree in every value creating activity, changes in technology can impact competitive advantage by incrementally changing the activities themselves or by making possible new configurations of the value chain.
	www.netmba.com /strategy/value-chain (1349 words)

	Value Chain Management
		“Value” is defined as “any activity that increases the market form or function of the product or service.” And in today’s business climate, you need to maximize the value of every process in your business.
		Value Chain Management looks at every step, from raw materials (including those your suppliers’ suppliers use) to your customers and the eventual end user, right down to disposing of the packaging.
		Value Chain Management consulting is extremely effective on-site, as experts can take the time to map your company and show you exactly how to implement the techniques in your unique business.
	www.wmep.org /valuechainmanagement.html (573 words)

	ClickZ: Redefining the Media Value Chain
		It's redefining the value chain that's largely in sync with the macro trend of consumer-centric communications.
		Whether focused on the masses or on a niche, the media value chain is based on publishers' ability to generate and develop content in the hopes of attracting an audience.
		Whether behavior can be traded as a commodity doesn't have immediate impact in the media value chain, but how it can help media planners minimize waste and achieve more efficiency and effectiveness to reach the target audience is certainly worthy of consideration.
	www.clickz.com /showPage.html?page=3584756 (1114 words)

	Policies, Procedures and Processes » Turning Your Supply Chain into a Value Chain
		It is about creating relationships and understanding in order to become more proactive, preventing waste and increasing your supply chain’s reaction time, as a supply chain.
		Value chains are made of strong bonds and are harder to break.
		Leading Value chains or proactively managing your supply chain is the future.
	www.bizmanualz.com /information/2006/02/21/turning-your-supply-chain-into-a-value-chain.html (885 words)

	Value Chain Analysis
		In order to target the right customers, it is essential to understand the complete value chain for your offering.
		The value chain describes the flow of materials from raw materials to finished good and disposal or recycling, and the associated flows of value (i.e.
		Value chain analysis also examines the decision-making processes at work at each level in the value chain, as well as explaining the basis upon which purchasing and supplier selection decisions are made.
	www.marketability.org /value_chain.htm (91 words)

	Value Chain Software
		Now that more companies have begun to focus on the value chain as a way to improve their market position, the inevitable result has been the evolution of technology to help these firms more effectively accomplish these tasks.
		A number of other types of value chain software are also available and are being used by a majority of manufacturing firms.
		However, many companies that go to adopt any value chain software need to realize that picking the right technology is critical for their success.
	www.epiqtech.com /supply_chain-Value-Chain-Software.htm (643 words)

	Value Chain
		The value chain idea has been around for nearly 20 years and its basic purpose has been to help companies move closer to an ideal.
		Unfortunately this ideal has always been nearly impossible to achieve, but the value chain concept allows companies to view their current processes and to determine where value can be added along the chain.
		In order to examine the value chain and to determine how best to position a company for success in the market, an organization must look at its functional components: the supply chain, its logistics, procurement, product development, and customer order management specifically.
	www.epiqtech.com /supply_chain-Value-Chain.htm (658 words)

	Porter The Value Chain
		The value chain is a horizontal look at a firm with a process - product perspective versus a department view of the firm used for the budget.
		A firm's purpose is to create value for its owners, and activities that increase value are deemed valued added.
		The problem with value chain analysis has been and continues to be how to measure activities across the firm rather than within department budgets.
	www.clintburdett.com /process/05_research/research_05_4_valuechain.htm (321 words)

	Operations Research Management Science - Value Chain Optimization
		Traditional value chain management systems are based on static, structured information within a rigid planning cycle, while SAR Blue Enterprise orchestrates dynamic, structured and unstructured information within a continuous, adaptive event-based planning process.
		Traditional value chain management focuses on supply chain planning and execution, while SAR Blue Enterprise not only performs supply chain planning but also determines business rules and policies.
		The goal is to create a digital brain with sensors reaching all the way from a company's global value chain to the Internet world, identifying, monitoring, organizing and analyzing critical business information with intelligent decision-making capabilities in order to generate and activate proper business rules, policies and processes.
	www.lionhrtpub.com /orms/orms-4-02/frvaluechain.html (2684 words)

	The Value Chain Program (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By co-operating with others in the supply chain — from the producer through to the consumer — value chain members build their competitive advantage, identify sustainable marketing opportunities, and improve their response to market demand.
		To be considered for the Value Chain Program, projects must contribute to the growth and diversification of Saskatchewan’s agriculture industry, and involve the development of a value chain.
		The Value Chain Program is part of the Food Safety and Quality Chapter of the federal/provincial Agricultural Policy Framework.
	www.agr.gov.sk.ca /docs/about_us/programs_services/value_chain.asp (675 words)

	The Value Chain (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The value chain allows an organisation to understand what activities it performs, classify them into primary and secondary activities and most importantly of all, understand which ones add value to the customer.
		By applying value chain analysis to the delivery team, we can see that primary activities of the delivery team would be architecture, requirements analysis, development, test and implementation.
		However as I said before, the power of value chain analysis is not so much listing the activities that should be performed and understanding which ones add value to the customer, it is more about understanding the linkages between the activities.
	blogs.ittoolbox.com /pm/school/archives/value-chain-9813?rss=1 (1139 words)

	Value Networks
		The value network is a graphic representation of all of the organizations, groups, and individuals that are or could be involved in the development, marketing, and use of a technology.
		Traditionally, the value chain [Botkin and Matthews 1992] is used to describe the process by which a new idea gets to market.
		Determining the value chain for SEI technologies is slightly different since most SEI technologies are not a commercial grade product entering the marketplace.
	www.sei.cmu.edu /ttp/value-networks.html (512 words)

	Value Chain
		The 3-day conference was a valuable opportunity that empowered our developers to immerse themselves in the latest Microsoft development tools and technologies to realize their full potential.
		Founded in 2000 Value Chain has grown from a small web development company to the state of the art development and graphical design company.
		At Value Chain we firmly believe in providing functional web/e-commerce development work including static graphical and motion graphic development and production services.Value Chain is a professional web, media development and design company.
	www.valuechainpk.com (259 words)

	How to Respond to Changes in the Semiconductor Value Chain
		The web of relationships that forms the semiconductor "value chain" is evolving as a result of pressures on both the demand and the supply side.
		According to Michael Porter's classic value chain model (published in his book, "Competitive Advantage" in 1985), the goal of each activity in a value chain is to add more value for the customer than the cost of carrying out the activity.
		The structure of the value chain changes periodically, depending on the degree of vertical integration that maximizes profits at a given point in time.
	www.gartner.com /DisplayDocument?ref=g_search&id=480913 (1794 words)

	Michael Porter Value Chain model framework
		From a Value Based Management point of view, the Value Chain Framework helps to build a relative competitive advantage, together with Porter's Competitive Advantage thinking.
		The Value Chain Framework can be seen as one of two dimensions in maximizing corporate value creation.
		The other value creation dimension is the Market/Industry Attractiveness for which another model from Porter is often used: the Competitive Forces model.
	www.valuebasedmanagement.net /methods_porter_value_chain.html (255 words)

	Value Chain Management: Managing a Value Chain
		Managing a Value Chain focuses on strategic response to the requirements of your value-creating business design and the management of elements of the value chain in order to win competitive advantage.
		It covers methods of winning cost advantage and achieving the value proposition, ways of maximizing collaboration within the value chain, competitive management of demand and channels, and competitive management of distribution and operations.
		Identify goals of collaboration in the value chain.
	www.netg.com /catalog/detail.asp?c=US44742 (388 words)

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