Resources for Growth
Modular Value Chains means plug ‘n play strategy deployment. This also means that having access to competitive resources becomes more important than owning them. New …
Designing the Leveraged Organization
With significantly more modular value chains and plug ‘n play business dynamics, the days of the integrated Strategic Business Unit are numbered. Instead, a more …
Not so fast – Rethinking Merger Rationale
Value Chain fragmentation offers new opportunities for making merger integration efforts more effective. Instead of integrating entire companies, it becomes possible to adopt a differentiated …
The Board’s role in Strategy Development
Corporate governance has been the subject of many and intense discussion in recent years. Spurred by scandals involving companies such as Enron, Ahold, Worldcom and …
Learning a new Complexity Language
Complexity generally has a negative connotation. For some parts of the Value Chain however, complexity represents a true source of value. Better understanding of the …
Make or Buy: New Questions – New Answers
Fragmentation of Value Chains means hard work for vertically integrated companies as they have to routinely modularize individual parts of the Value Chain. This makes …
Modular Value Chains
Much has been written on the real impact of the Internet: its ability to break up value chains through the interaction efficiency it provides. Although …
The Digital Springboard
Digitization and connectivity have provided a solid source of business process innovation making companies more competitive. In some cases this can be taken even further …