Discover how value chain analysis enhances business efficiency, optimizes costs, and delivers competitive advantage through step-by-step assessment.

The value chain, created by Michael Porter, is a business management concept that includes nine activities that work together to provide value to customers. When a company implements a value chain, it ...

Value chain management, also known as supply chain management, has come a long way to become what it is today. In the past, value chain analysis was focused more on logistics, on the manual aspect of ...

For harried inhabitants of the C-suite, perfect storms don’t get much more perfect than this: a major overhaul of the U.S. corporate tax code, a global initiative to address tax base erosion and ...

It is difficult to locate value within the conventional notion of the petroleum industry, especially in the upstream. A holistic approach to the much broader petrochemical and petroproduct value ...

Tasked with driving innovation and improving quality while simultaneously controlling costs, healthcare leaders are in an incredibly difficult position. As healthcare costs continue to rise, these ...

With support from the European Union, Mercy Corps conducted a market value chain analysis in Bekaa Valley to inform a series of agriculture programming. Using these assessments, Mercy Corps is focused ...

Over the past decade, many electronics firms have talked about diversifying their supply chains. An analysis of Apple—America’s biggest consumer electronics firm—illustrates that most of their ...