Day #2 Porter’s Strategic Models: The Five forces and the Value Chain CIS Department Professor Duane Truex III The Information Systems Strategy Triangle Business Strategy Organizational Design Strategy ICT/Information Strategy Professor Truex E-CommercePrinciples 1 HOW CAN INFORMATION RESOURCES BE USED STRATEGICALLY? Professor Truex E-CommercePrinciples Aligning IS/ICT strategy (Infrastructures) with business strategy • Using multiple approaches to evaluating
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A. Primary and support activities of a Value Chain Analysis Definition of Value Chain Analysis - The value chain analysis means of increasing customer satisfaction and managing cost more effectively. This is a systematic approach to examining the development of competitive advantage. Value chain analysis is particularly useful tool for looking at competitors‚ and identifying sources of competitive advantage Primary activities of Value Chains Analysis are directly concerned with the production
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Cathay Pacific’s Value Chain Operations Cathay Pacific believes that their business is selling experience to the passengers. The emotional bonding with the passengers is the key to building loyalty and one of the major factors that encourage the customers to repurchase the airline products. The biggest difference of Cathay Pacific to its competitors is its people. The employees at Cathay Pacific are the ones who bridge the gap between product development and customer expectation. The passengers
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Starbucks Case: Starbucks’ Value Chain A value chain is used to identify key areas of a corporation‚ including their resources and what they may achieve. The value chain is made up of key primary and secondary activities‚ which differentiate a business from others and creates a competitive advantage. The primary activities include inbound logistics‚ operations‚ outbound logistics‚ marketing/sales‚ and services. Secondary activities are made up of the firm infrastructure‚ human resource management
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SHOPRITE PTY LTD Background The Shoprite Group of Companies started from small beginnings in 1979 with the purchase of a chain of 8 Cape-based supermarkets for R1 million. In 1983 the Group opened its first branch outside the Western Cape – in Hartswater in the Northern Cape and expanding in other provinces too. Shoprite was listed on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa with a market capitalisation of R29 million It then owned 33 outlets. Two years later Shoprite ventured over
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Value Chain Analysis of Procter and Gamble case study Value Chain Analysis describes the activities that take place in a business and relates them to an analysis of the competitive strength of the business. Value Chain Analysis is one way of identifying which activities are best undertaken by a business and which are best outsourced. It suggests that the activities of a business could be grouped under two headings: primary activities and supporting activities. 1. Primary Activities - those that
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387 From supply chains to value chains: A spotlight on CSR Malika Bhandarkar and Tarcisio Alvarez-Rivero* 1. Introduction Corporate social responsibility (CSR)1 has become a hot topic in boardrooms across the world. Changes in corporate value systems are being driven by pressures from different actors‚ including governments‚ consumers‚ non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and institutional investors (diagram 1). Multinational corporations (MNCs) have operations spread across the globe‚ relying
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Chipotle is a fast casual restaurant that was founded by Steve Ellis in 1993.Chipotole serve customized burritos and salads to its customers. Chipotle is now growing at rapidly pace globally‚ where is has 1‚500 location and 37‚310 employees. Chipotle main competitors are place like Qdoba‚ Taco bell‚ and many more places. Also‚ Chipotle is very competitor in the market‚ it make adjustment to the competition like not charge for extra guac because Qboda doesn’t. They are a major competitor in the food
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Value Chain and Supply Chain Analysis Value Chain and Supply Chain Analysis Global value chain is described as activities companies use to bring out a product and share its conception from the beginning to the end. Design‚ production‚ marketing‚ distribution‚ and customer support are activities included in this process. The production of goods and services are value chain activities that are found in large geographical areas or different locations. The term “global value chain” means that value
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312-616-0404 (Fax) tidzorek@ibbotson.com Abstract Over the last 50 years‚ Markowitz’s mean-variance optimization framework has become the asset allocation model of choice. Unfortunately the model often leads to highly concentrated asset allocations‚ the primary reason that practitioners haven’t fully embraced this Nobel Prize winning idea. Two relatively new techniques that help practitioners develop robust‚ well-diversified asset allocations are the BlackLitterman model and resampled mean-variance optimization
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