Download or read book Quantative Industry Wide Value Chain Analisys written by Maria Spiliotopoulou and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Value chain analysis is really important in the battle for discovery of a new benchmarking process.A combined qualitive and quantitative VCA constitutes an important tool, which can provide a holistic economic view on the activities of the MNE group and further.Performing quantitative VCA is explained in this booklet and applied on 5 industries: Apparel, Publishing, Pharma, Telecom & Mining.

Download or read book Supply Chain Strategy and Financial Metrics written by Bram DeSmet and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply Chain Strategy and Financial Metrics is a step-by-step guide to balancing the triangle of service, cost and cash which is the essence of supply chain management. Supply chains have become increasingly strategy-driven, and this Supply Chain Triangle approach puts the supply chain at the heart of the strategy discussion instead of seeing it as a result. Supply Chain Strategy and Financial Metrics fully reflects the 'inventory' or 'working capital' angle and examines the optimisation of the supply chain and Return on Capital Employed. Including case studies of Barco, Casio and a selection of food retail companies, this book covers building a strategy-driven KPI dashboard, target setting and financial benchmarking. Regular examples and diagrams illustrate how different types of strategies lead to different trade-offs in the Supply Chain Triangle. This ground-breaking text links supply chain, strategy and finance through financial metrics, therefore creating value for the shareholder. Online supporting resources include worksheets covering basic financial concepts such as cash flow and working capital, with example data sets and guidelines/exercises to make it interactive.

Download or read book Contemporary Strategy Analysis written by Robert M. Grant and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert M. Grant combines a highly accessible writing style with a concentration on the fundamentals of value creation and an emphasis on practicality in this leading strategy text. In this new edition, he includes an even greater focus on strategy implementation that reflects the needs of firms to reconcile scale economies with entrepreneurial flexibility, innovation with cost efficiency, and globalization with local responsiveness. This edition also incorporates some of the key strategic issues of today including: post-financial crisis adjustment, the continuing rise of China, India and Brazil, and the increased emphasis on ethics and sustainability. Coverage is also provided on strategy in not-for-profit organizations. Contemporary Strategy Analysis, Text and Cases 8th Edition combines the text with an updated collection of 20 case studies. It is suitable for both MBA and advanced undergraduate students. Additional teaching resources are also available for instructors, including an instructor’s manual, case teaching notes, test bank, teaching slides, case video clips and extra cases. All of these resources can be accessed via the companion website: www.contemporarystrategyanalysis.com

Download or read book Michael Porter s Value Chain written by 50minutes, and published by 50 Minutes. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand Michael Porter’s value chain in no time! Find out everything you need to know about this valuable business tool with this practical and accessible guide. The Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter has dedicated much of his career to studying competitive advantage. One of his best-known concepts is the value chain, which is used to deliver a product or service to the market and has three key objectives: to improve services, to reduce costs and to create value. The model can be applied to virtually any business in any sector, making it a vital tool for companies looking to make the most of their competitive advantage in an increasingly crowded market. In 50 minutes you will be able to: •Identify the nine functions that generate value within a business •Analyse your company’s activity to make the most of your competitive advantage •Find areas for improvement and take concrete steps to maximise performance ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING The Management and Marketing series from the 50Minutes collection provides the tools to quickly understand the main theories and concepts that shape the economic world of today. Our publications will give you elements of theory, definitions of key terms and case studies in a clear and easily digestible format, making them the ideal starting point for readers looking to develop their skills and expertise.

Download or read book Competitive Advantage written by Michael E. Porter and published by Free Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter’s The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter’s groundbreaking study of international competitiveness has shaped national policy in countries around the world. It has also transformed thinking and action in states, cities, companies, and even entire regions such as Central America. Based on research in ten leading trading nations, The Competitive Advantage of Nations offers the first theory of competitiveness based on the causes of the productivity with which companies compete. Porter shows how traditional comparative advantages such as natural resources and pools of labor have been superseded as sources of prosperity, and how broad macroeconomic accounts of competitiveness are insufficient. The book introduces Porter’s “diamond,” a whole new way to understand the competitive position of a nation (or other locations) in global competition that is now an integral part of international business thinking. Porter's concept of “clusters,” or groups of interconnected firms, suppliers, related industries, and institutions that arise in particular locations, has become a new way for companies and governments to think about economies, assess the competitive advantage of locations, and set public policy. Even before publication of the book, Porter’s theory had guided national reassessments in New Zealand and elsewhere. His ideas and personal involvement have shaped strategy in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Portugal, Taiwan, Costa Rica, and India, and regions such as Massachusetts, California, and the Basque country. Hundreds of cluster initiatives have flourished throughout the world. In an era of intensifying global competition, this pathbreaking book on the new wealth of nations has become the standard by which all future work must be measured.

Download or read book Quantitative Industry Wide Value Chain Analysis written by Maria Spiliotopoulou and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Value chain analysis is really important in the battle for discovery of a new benchmarking process.A combined qualitive and quantitative VCA constitutes an important tool, which can provide a holistic economic view on the activities of the MNE group and further.Performing quantitative VCA is explained in this booklet and applied on 5 industries: Apparel, Publishing, Pharma, Telecom & Mining.

Download or read book Services Marketing written by K. Rama Moahana Rao and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Value Chain Analysis for Assessing Competitive Advantage written by Joseph G. San Miguel and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Supply Chain Benchmarking written by Mukiira Evelyn Maradufu and published by IPR Journals and Book Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOPICS IN THE BOOK Effect of Experiential Marketing in Building Brand Equity: A Case of Selected Unilever Tanzania Brands Effects of Supplier Development Practices on Performance of Pharmaceutical Suppliers for Hospitals in Nairobi City County Procurement Process Approvals and their Contribution to High Quality Market Driven Products: A Case of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Monusco) Entebbe Support Base Effect of Information Flow Systems’ Automation on Performance of Financial Market Intermediaries on Kenya Supplier Integration Practices and Production Capacity in Restaurant Enterprises, Kisumu City Kenya

Download or read book Value Chain Analysis for Assessing Competitive Advantage written by Joseph G. San Miguel and published by Hamilton, Ont. : Society of Management Accountants of Canada. This book was released on 1996 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Benchmarking written by Carol Jean McNair and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1992 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Benchmarking "Benchmarking provides a practical, hands-on approach by a team that has been there." -Susan Anderson-Khleif, Group Education Manager, Digital Equipment Corporation "Benchmarking continuously focuses on developing meaningful action plans to become æBest-in-Class' in your business." -Rolf E. Soderstrom, Corporate Vice-President, Motorola, Inc. Praised as the most effective, thorough book on the subject today, Benchmarking shows you how to benchmark every aspect of your business, from new product development to operations and "back office" functions. You'll see how to use benchmarking successfully to achieve a competitive edge, target specific areas for maximum results, and further continuous improvement goals. Seasoned advice from the authors covers such topics as: Creating value from the customer's perspective How to develop both qualitative and quantitative benchmarks How to identify key performance drivers Realizing the most effective methods for implementing and managing a benchmarking initiative Numerous examples from companies such as Avon Products, AT&T, and Janssen Pharmaceutica are included to illustrate the power and diversity of successful benchmarking initiatives.

Download or read book Quantitative Models for Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking written by Joe Zhu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is one of the prominent researchers in the field of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a powerful data analysis tool that can be used in performance evaluation and benchmarking. This book is based upon the author’s years of research and teaching experiences. It is difficult to evaluate an organization’s performance when multiple performance metrics are present. The difficulties are further enhanced when the relationships among the performance metrics are complex and involve unknown tradeoffs. This book introduces Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a multiple-measure performance evaluation and benchmarking tool. The focus of performance evaluation and benchmarking is shifted from characterizing performance in terms of single measures to evaluating performance as a multidimensional systems perspective. Conventional and new DEA approaches are presented and discussed using Excel spreadsheets — one of the most effective ways to analyze and evaluate decision alternatives. The user can easily develop and customize new DEA models based upon these spreadsheets. DEA models and approaches are presented to deal with performance evaluation problems in a variety of contexts. For example, a context-dependent DEA measures the relative attractiveness of similar operations/processes/products. Sensitivity analysis techniques can be easily applied, and used to identify critical performance measures. Two-stage network efficiency models can be utilized to study performance of supply chain. DEA benchmarking models extend DEA’s ability in performance evaluation. Various cross efficiency approaches are presented to provide peer evaluation scores. This book also provides an easy-to-use DEA software — DEAFrontier. This DEAFrontier is an Add-In for Microsoft® Excel and provides a custom menu of DEA approaches. This version of DEAFrontier is for use with Excel 97-2013 under Windows and can solve up to 50 DMUs, subject to the capacity of Excel Solver. It is an extremely powerful tool that can assist decision-makers in benchmarking and analyzing complex operational performance issues in manufacturing organizations as well as evaluating processes in banking, retail, franchising, health care, public services and many other industries.

Download or read book Managing the Supply Chain written by J.L. Gattorna and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 1996-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes an updated view of the issues involved in supply chain management in today's business environment. It covers topics such as activity based costing, value chain analysis, optimisation, international operations and best benchmarking.

Download or read book Business Policy and Strategic Management written by G. V. Satya Sekhar and published by I. K. International Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The knowledge of business policy and techniques of strategic management is the need of the hour to prospective business managers. The present competitive environment has brought several drastic changes in policy making and strategic management. Hence, there is necessity of theoretical understanding about the business policy as well as strategic management. Most of the organizations have started adopting strategic management system. This book focuses on conceptual approach to the subject as well as some select case studies, which make a foundation to the knowledge of strategic management.

Download or read book Benchmarking and Value Chain Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Apple Value Chain analysis written by Billy George and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: B, Monash University Melbourne, language: English, abstract: Value chain analysis goes a long way in the categorization of the value adding activities in an organization. This aspect is important with the fact that, firms now increasingly look towards the development of their Sustainable Competitive Advantage based on the value addition to the company’s output at each level of the company (Kaplinsky & Morris, 2001). As the value chain, as explained later in this paper, encompasses the entire organization- classified as the inputs for the primary and secondary activities, the proper analysis of the same is very crucial to the overall development of the organization and its long term sustainability in this competitive world. The analysis of the value chain of the Apple Inc. showed a very critical aspect in the manufacturing and production sector of the company. This is due to the fact that Apple Inc. does not have any manufacturing facilities to produce the hardware for its products. They, instead rely on the outsourcing of the manufacturing to Chinese corporations. This can be very detrimental to the company in the long run. Another aspect that could be improved is the Human resource aspect that makes a part of the support activity of the value chain. Our recommendations would include to build manufacturing units to buffet the firm from external influences, to make changes in the technology aspect by making the operating system open sourced and to have more robust human resource policies to make it very employee friendly.

Download or read book Wiley CMA Exam Review 2022 Study Guide Part 1 written by Wiley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare for success on the first part of the 2022 CMA exam with this essential study aid The Wiley CMA Exam Review 2022 Part 1 Study Guide: Financial Planning, Performance, and Analytics is a comprehensive and accurate handbook designed to help you identify and master each of the competencies covered by the first part of the 2022 Certified Management Accountant exam. It includes material on: External Financial Reporting Decisions Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Performance Management Cost Management Internal Controls Technology and Analytics Ideal for anyone preparing for the challenging CMA series of exams, the Wiley CMA Exam Review 2022 Part 1 Study Guide: Financial Planning, Performance, and Analytics is also a perfect companion resource for early-career management accountants seeking a refresher on foundational topics they’re likely to encounter regularly at work.