As a new CEO in 2004, Simon Wardley was searching for a framework to inform his strategy decisions. The first part in this series introduced the five factors that matter in competition, identified by ...

IW's 2005 Value-Chain Survey sets benchmarks for global manufacturers in procurement, new product development, supply-chain planning and logistics. Disruptive forces such as soaring raw materials and ...

A Value Chain is a set of activities that a company performs in order to deliver its product or service for the market. The concept was introduced by Michael Porter in his 1985 best-seller, ...

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This marks the first time that the entire supply chain of one of Vietnam’s most prominent industries has been systematised, visualised, and officially published in a structured manner, aiming to ...