... modern information technology has overtaken traditional ways. Believes old definitions of businesses and their boundaries no longer hold good — which in turn means new perspectives are needed on customers, suppliers and competitors. Value chain Internet Boston Consulting Group © MCB UP Limited...

...B Gould Argues that effective partnership souring requires increased movement of information and resources across the boundaries between firms. Adopts the position that company competitiveness depends on value chain effectiveness as a whole — meaning partnership sourcing along the chain. Notes...

...B Gould Notes that, in US manufacturing, suppliers are paid a total of about one half of a firm's revenues — therefore a firm that co‐operates with all of its suppliers doubles its competitive resources on the supply side of its value chain. Believes competition is driving supply chains...

...T Kippenberger Declares that strategy helps firms prepare for the future as it allows managers to identify, and then take, opportunities to add value to their customers. Advocates that the value chain concept is built around the idea that value is added — in sequence — by suppliers along the chain...

..., companies should position themselves as either cost leaders or differentiators — depending on which of these two was decided on. Believes there are shortcomings in strategic value chain's poor applicability to service industries, but suggests it is all part of the change occurring since Porter's 1985 book...

...T Kippenberger Alludes to the concept of the value chain — which was seen as a powerful tool enabling strategists to diagnose and enhance competitive strategy (first put forward in Porter's 1980 book ‘Competitive Strategy’). Describes the value system as having at least three additional value...