ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS FOR VALUE CHAINS

Authors

  • A.C. Janse van Rensburg Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Pretoria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7166/19-2-88

Abstract

ENGLISH ABSTRACT:The Porter Value Chain has been widely adopted by the business community as a mechanism to understand and comprehend complexity in business environments, with the ultimate goal of structuring the business to maximize its competitive advantage. Implementing the Value Chain is not easy: a number of organizations can testify to their failure to derive any benefits at all from this concept. To overcome this problem, an approach is presented to assist the organization in creating a Value Chain reference model within the broader context of the organization

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Published

2011-11-05

How to Cite

Janse van Rensburg, A. (2011). ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS FOR VALUE CHAINS. The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 19(2). https://doi.org/10.7166/19-2-88

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2008)

Section

General Articles

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