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Value chain
About: Value chain is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 7206 publications have been published within this topic receiving 224183 citations.
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15 Dec 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how companies can form the necessary business alliances to combine two of the most versatile and effective business tools of the new century: the power of supply chain and the Intenet.
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E-Supply Chain reveals how companies can form the necessary business alliances to combine two of the most versatile and effective business tools of the new century: the power of supply chain and the Intenet.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how different aspects of the business model changed after the retailer launched its cross-channel strategy, identifying the major changes on three fronts: redefinition of target clients, a new proposition for shopping value, and redesign of the value chain.
Abstract: Although cross-channel retailing has become a game changer for retailers, few previous studies have looked at the problems from the inherently holistic perspective of a business model approach. Using a single case study but multiple data collection methods, including interviews, observations, and document analysis, on the biggest Chinese retailer in consumer electronic appliances, the present study examines how different aspects of the business model changed after the retailer launched its cross-channel strategy. The results identify the major changes on three fronts: redefinition of target clients, a new proposition for shopping value, and redesign of the value chain. Findings suggest that a retailer shifting toward the cross-channel strategy will follow the stage-of-adoption model, which may be in five stages, and that the physical store as a hub linking different channels will become the source of value creation. To facilitate the strategic shift, retailers should optimize rather than merge their activities across channels, reinforce the strengths of the physical store, develop co-creation value with stakeholders, and revamp their organization.
93 citations
TL;DR: Using the notion of value disciplines to model strategic foci, it is found in a matched survey of executives in 241 firms that IT business value is highest in firms with a multi-focused business strategy and lowest in those with a single focus.
Abstract: Previous research finds that firm performance is highest when firms maintain a singular strategic focus as opposed to a multi-focused strategy. Yet, from an IT perspective, there is still some debate as to whether IT business value or the contribution of IT to firm performance is also maximized when firms maintain a single-focused strategy. Using the notion of value disciplines to model strategic foci, we find in a matched survey of executives in 241 firms that IT business value is highest in firms with a multi-focused business strategy and lowest in those with a single focus. We also find a relationship between strategic foci and the primary locus of IT value within the value chain for all focus-types except those emphasizing operational excellence. If all firms are using IT to reduce operating expenses, operationally excellent firms may find it increasingly difficult to sustain a low-cost advantage over time through IT.
93 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of the Internet on the value chain is discussed and three industries that have been either radically altered by the Internet, or that are facing tremendous challenges as they head into the future, are considered.
93 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach to the supply management debate based on value configuration analysis, which acknowledges the value chain logic, but finds it constraining in certain business systems and also includes recognition of the value network model as representing the layered supply relationships typically associated with a mediating presence.
93 citations