...Asian Journal of Business Management 2(4): 110-120, 2010 ISSN: 2041-8752 © M axwell Scientific Organization, 2010 Submitted date: August 30, 2010 Accepted date: October 09, 2010 Published date: December 10, 2010 Strategic Innovation Management in Global Industry Networks: The TFT LCD Industry Guenter Boehm and 2 L.J. Fredericks Strategic Marketing, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Yongin-449-711, South Korea 2 The Center of Poverty and Development Studies, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of M alaya, Kuala Lumpur-5060 3, M alaysia 1 1 Abs tract: This study examines the strategic innovation management of the business creation process across the technology industry value chain in the global thin-film-transistor (TFT) liquid-crystal-display (LCD) industry based on an anonymous online survey of employees in the industry value chain and outside exp erts (universities, consultants, etc.). The study confirms that technology strategy formulation and a strategic center position are key industry concerns. It also affirms the utility of the industry value chain framework to manage technological innovations transcending that of a single company, and that strategic innov ation m anag eme nt in global high technology industries incorporates a shared business creation process structure involving as many industry value chain partners as possible. Key words: Global high technology industry networks, strategic innovation manageme nt, TFT L CD industry INTRODUCTION Globalization...
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...Moving from Supply Chain to Demand Chain Management Dr. Pankaj M. Madhani Introduction Supply chain involves all activities associated with the flow and transformation of goods as well as the related information flows from the raw material stage, through to the end user. Supply chain is defined as the integration of key business processes from customers through original suppliers that provide products, services, and information that adds value for end users and other stakeholders. Here, a supply chain includes all the value chain processes from suppliers to end customers. As such supply chain comprises all the supply processes necessary to fulfill customer demand and is managed within supply chain management (SCM). SCM can be defined as “the management of upstream and downstream relationships with suppliers and customers in order to create enhanced value in the final market place at less cost to the supply chain as a whole” (Christopher, 1998). Hence, SCM refers to all of the processes, technologies, and strategies that together form the basis for working with internal as well as external sources of supply. As SCM focuses on the efficient matching of supply with demand it does not help the firm to find out what the customer perceives as valuable, and how this customer-perceived value can be translated into customer value propositions. Hence, supply chain efficiency by itself will not increase customer value and satisfaction as firms also require market orientation to...
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...“We are one team” – H&M Executive Summary Sitting on top as the 3rd largest fast fashion producer in the world, H&M has enjoyed a spectacular 10% growth in the last five years. With its 600 million garments produced every year, H&M is a large player in the race to becoming a sustainable fashion house. After embracing sustainability at large in the last decade, H&M has made significant changes internally towards adopting and embedding sustainability into all their operations and value chain – but it’s still a work in progress. H&M’s CSR initiatives have a strong track record and involve various stages and stakeholders of its value chain, including their design team, suppliers of raw materials and fibers, as well as customers. Some of these renowned initiatives include the Better Cotton Initiative, the Conscious Collection, the Fashion Against AIDS collection and the Garment Collecting Initiative to name a few. All which have in common the involvement of different stakeholders, from suppliers to customers and designers. In this context, our challenge was to find what more can H&M do? Where and how should value be created, and which opportunity would create the most value for H&M and its stakeholder, all while increasing the company’s triple bottom line. The company’s core values, its strong customer focus and its business vision to provide customers with “fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way”, has driven many of H&M’s...
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...1. Summary: Exploring value creation from the corporate foresight activity The article Exploring value creation from the corporate foresight activity explains in details, both technical and the human aspect, the value creation from the future research. As the future research involves a monitory as well the human capital the return on investment is an important debate. While discussing the return on investment the time line is also a concern that when the return of the present investment would be physically enjoyable. The paper starts with a brilliant introduction of the thesis statement and the author has argued the most common question “Have the predictions been accurate? ‘With the question ‘‘did our futures research create any value?’’ .Further in the paper the author have supported his argument with a literature review and empirical investigation. Based on the literature review the author have found out three main group of potential value creations (Rohrbeck 2011) • Trigger organizational responses, including identifying relevant external change, start new innovation initiatives and challenge innovation development to ensure state-of-the-art • Start and facilitate strategic discussions to enable strategic change, including challenge and change existing mental models, moderate strategic discussions, promote participation and support breaking away from path dependency • Identify and support acquisition of needed strategic resources, including identify resources, decide on...
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...Ones and Dilchert’s article: the creation of organizational cultures. Here, we will develop the idea of how culture, value creation, and competitive advantage are linked to environmental sustainability. We will briefly illustrate our arguments with findings from our case-study research in the hospitality industry in 13 Iberoamerican countries.1 1. Ours is research in progress, based on qualitative and mixed research methods. It aims to analyze the role of sustainability in the hospitality sector in Iberoamerica: Spain, Portugal, and Latin America (concretely, in Chile, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic). Organizational culture and sustainability Sustainability and Organizational Culture There is a nascent body of literature that aims to understand how companies can embed sustainability in their organizational cultures (Howard-Grenville & Bertels, 2012). For these authors, culture has been conceptualized as shared norms or values (reinforced through the role of leaders and ‘‘champions,’’ the allocation of resources, the use of incentives, and the existence of corporate policies), as a frame or filter (that is, as recursive connections between people’s day-to-day actions and the meanings associated with them), and as a toolkit (made malleable by individual actors who use cultural resources in new ways). Among the myriad of conceptualizations available, Ulrich and Brockbank...
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...Creating Shared Value Sean Brady Capella University October 28, 2012 Creating Shared Value In the article creating shared value the authors, M. Kramer and M. Porter discuss the current state of business value creation; and the efforts that need to be taken to create shared values. Currently businesses primarily concern themselves with profits and view value creation in such a way that they do not fully take advantage of their full potential. Additionally, the government has implemented policies that have only exasperated the drive from shared value creation. “Shared values form the basis for all relationships wherever we go in business and in life, we bring are own values along as well. When others share our values, this becomes a powerful and attractive force to bind us closer together. Shared values form the very basis for every relationship.” ("Shared," 2012) This is the very point that is made in this article; the business should not focus only on itself. When making decisions the business should look at its community and what it can do for that. “The concept of shared value resets the boundaries of capitalism. By better connecting companies' success with societal improvement, it opens up many ways to serve new needs, gain efficiency, create differentiation, and expand markets. The ability to create shared value applies equally to advanced economies and developing countries, though the specific opportunities will differ. The opportunities will also differ markedly...
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...Resource Architecture: Relational Archetypes and Value Creation Sung-Choon Kang Cornell University Shad S. Morris Cornell University Scott A. Snell Cornell University, ss356@cornell.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cahrswp Part of the Human Resources Management Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) at DigitalCommons@ILR. It has been accepted for inclusion in CAHRS Working Paper Series by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@ILR. For more information, please contact hlmdigital@cornell.edu. Extending the Human Resource Architecture: Relational Archetypes and Value Creation Abstract Theories of knowledge-based competition focus on internal resources as the source of value creation. The HR architecture (Lepak & Snell, 1999) brought human resource management directly into this forum by developing a model of human capital allocation and management. We attempt to extend the HR architecture by introducing a framework of relational archetypes—entrepreneurial and cooperative—that are derived from unique combinations of three dimensions (cognitive, structural, and affective) that characterize internal and external relationships of core knowledge employees. Entrepreneurial archetypes facilitate value creation from external partnerships while cooperative archetypes facilitate value creation from internal partnerships. This paper identifies...
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...AND EFFECT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE A. Talebnejad[1] Faculty of Management and Accounting Shahid Beheshti University Email: taleb149@yahoo.com Abstract -By the appropriate use of information technology, organizations can achieve sustainable competitive advantages. This technology because of including some characteristics such as being up-to-date, fast and precise and having different geographic localities all the time, has improved organizational efficiency, effectiveness and performance. In this article, we intend to investigate the role and effect of information technology in the creation and maintenance of sustainable competitive advantages from two different approaches: market-based approach and the resource-based approach. In the Market-based approach, meeting customer's and creating values for them, using information technology and the issue of achieving the competitive advantage and position in the market by organizations are addressed. In the resource-based approach, compatibility of the organization's resources such as those of information technology and organizational skills, particularly managerial ones are investigated. Amongst different organizational skills and resources, only managerial skills of information technology can create a sustainable competitive advantage. Keywords: Information Technology, Sustainable Competitive Advantage, Creation of Value for Customers, Resource-Based Approach, Market-Based...
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...Commercial and social enterprises must be re-integrated together. Most companies are still stuck in the "corporate social responsibility" mode of thinking, where social issues are marginalized. We lack is an integrity guide framework. Pathway to solve the problem is that the principle of shared value: companies create value for society to deal with social challenges, meet the social needs of the process, thus creating significant economic value. Business must reconnect business success with social progress. Opportunity already exists, but companies ignored. Business have become commercial, not because of its charitable donations, but because the business is to deal with the most pressing issues of social powerful force. It is the time to meet the new concept of capitalism, which means companies must be redefined as creating shared value, not profit itself. This will drive the next wave of innovation and global economic growth (Porter & Kramer, 2011). Learning how to create shared value is the best business opportunity to regain legitimacy. Literature review Companies that create value for society need to deal with social challenges, to meet the social needs, creating significant economic value (Porter & Kramer, 2011). The commercial must reconnect...
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...In other words, service is always exchanged for service. According to Vargo and Lusch (2008a), goods become valuable to customers as service appliance, which it serves as distribution mechanisms for service and the value provided is at the time of its use, as value-in-use. Customers buy goods not just exchange money for goods, but the service and solutions that can provide by the goods. For example, customers who buying a heater is because of the solution, which is keep the customers warm that it provides. This is the service provided by the heater. Differences of G-D Logic and S-D Logic Traditional perspective refers to good-dominant (G-D) logic. G-D logic is centered on the good and based on value-in-exchange, in which the value is created through exchange of money and goods in the market. The economic exchange is fundamentally concerned with units of output that are embedded with value during manufacturing process (Vargo & Lusch, 2008). The value creation is often refers by activities performed by the firm such as manufacture and distribute the goods to customers. Therefore, the role of consumers and producers are distinct. However, S-D logic is based on value-in-use (Vargo & Lusch, 2008a). The role of producers and customers are not distinct, value is co-created by the interaction of customers and firms...
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...19 April 2004; accepted 19 May 2004 Available online 2 July 2004 Abstract Electronic commerce (E-commerce) innovating applications have posed novel, technical, organizational and commercial challenges. This study uses a hypercube model to investigate these innovative changes and focuses on their impacts on E-commerce stakeholders: providers, E-commerce companies, customers, and complementors. The results indicate that mobile commerce (M-commerce) differs substantially from Web-based commerce in some technological components, yet both share common business model. However, from Web-based to M-commerce, innovation is architectural for customers and E-commerce companies, but a radical change for complementors. From M-commerce to Ucommerce, innovation is modular to customers, architectural to complementors and radical to E-commerce companies and providers. Thereafter, the critical impacts of E-commerce innovations on the stakeholders are identified. Ó 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Innovation; E-commerce; Web-based commerce; M-commerce; U-commerce 1. Introduction Rapid developments in information and telecommunication technology have substantially changed the landscape of organizational computing. Electronic commerce (E-commerce), including Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 7 525 2000x4722; fax: +886 7 525...
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...Mergers And Acquisitions: Shareholder Wealth Effects Mergers and acquisition otherwise identified as M& A defines an aspect of corporate management strategy, as well as corporate finance that deal with the selling, the buying and dividing of the various companies. It also involves combining the various companies and similarly oriented identities which could assist a given enterprise to grow rapidly within its sector of origin, or even a new field or location even without necessarily creating some subsidiary or joint type of a venture. The actual distinction which exists between a merger and an acquisition has been seen to become increasingly blurred in several aspects. This has been seen to be significant particularly in terms some ultimate economic outcome. Acquisition normally refers to the process of significantly smaller firms by a significantly large firm. However, it is notable that in some instances, a smaller firm could acquire some management control of a significantly larger firm or even a longer established firm in an effort to retain the real name of the latter for some past acquisition entity through combined efforts. This normally results into a reverse takeover and affects all the shareholders who are involved within the two firms. According to research study done by Ang and Kohers across the US territory, a reverse merger could also affect the shareholders in significant ways. This is because the merger enables a given private company to become publicly...
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...CRIMINALS table Update Criminals Set Criminal_ID = ‘&Criminal_ID’ WHERE Criminal ID IN (‘&Last', '&First', '&Street', '&City', '&State', '&Zip', '&Phone', '&v_status' , '&p_status'); OR INSERT INTO Criminals VALUES ('&Criminal_ID', '&Last', '&First', '&Street', '&City','&State','&Zip', '&Phone', '&v_status', '&p_status'); 2. Add the following criminals, using the script created in the previous step. No value needs to be entered at the prompt if it should be set to the DEFUALT column value. Query the criminals table to confirm that the new rows have been added. | SQL> insert into criminals 2 values (1015, 'Fenter', 'Jim', '', 'Chesapeake', 'VA', 23320, '', 'N', 'N'); SQL> insert into criminals 2 values (1016, 'Saunder', 'Bill', '11 Apple Rd', 'Virginia Beach', 'VA', 23455, 7678217443, 'N', 'N'); SQL> insert into criminals 2 values (1017, 'Painter', 'Troy', '77 Ship Lane', 'Norfolk', 'VA', 22093, 7677655454, 'N', 'N'); 3. Add a column named Mail_Flag to the criminals table the column should be assigned a datatype of CHAR(1) Alter Table Criminals Add (Mail_flag char(1)); 4. Set the Mail_flag column to a value of Y for all criminals Update Criminals Set Mail_flag = ‘Y’; 5. Set the Mail_flag column to N for all criminals that don’t have a street address recorded in the database. Update Criminals Set Mail_flag = ‘N’ where street is null 6...
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...Overcoming Boundaries through Multi-Channel Interaction June 15 - 18, 2008; Bled, Slovenia Value Creation in B2B E-Markets of China: A Practical Perspective Jing Zhao a, , Shan Wang b and Wilfred V Huang c a Center for International Cooperation in E-Business, College of Management China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P.R.China zhao5563@gmail.com b Department of Management Science, School of Business, Renmin University, 59 Zhong Guan Cun Avenue, Haidian District, Beijing 100872, P.R. China wangs7@gmail.com c College of Business, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 14802, U.S.A. fhuang@alfred.edu Abstract In China, the development of e-market has unique characteristics in the transactional processes and market mechanisms, which relate largely to the current industry structure, financial infrastructure and organization structure. This paper seeks to develop a conceptual model of B2B e-market value creation strategy, and can also be used to highlight the complexity of such activities for Chinese B2B e-markets. A process-oriented approach to modelling the value of e-market, rather than strategic position theory or a simple descriptive approach, is found to be more suitable and has been selected. The model consists of two dimensions: the e-commerce process and the controlling complexity. We apply the model in an actual Chinese B2B e-market (Alibaba.com). The crucial value creation activities and strategies in the four phases of e-commerce process are identified, and...
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...co-production and value co-creation: The case for a service-oriented architecture (SOA) q Andrea Ordanini a,*, Paolo Pasini b a b Bocconi University, Viale Filippetti, 9, 20122 – Milan, Italy SDA Bocconi, School of Management, Via Bocconi, 8, 20136 – Milan, Italy Available online KEYWORDS Service dominant logic; Co-production; Service management Summary An emerging marketing management logic proposes a new perspective on service activities, which previously have been subject to a biased goods-dominant logic. According to this new logic, customers always are co-producers of services and co-creators of value, not simple marketing targets, because they mobilize knowledge and other resources in the service process that affect the success of a value proposition. This article explores this key proposition, analyzing service co-production and value co-creation phenomena in the business-to-business segment and focusing on the case of service-oriented architecture (SOA) with an in-depth, qualitative analysis of two firms pioneering the implementation of SOA solutions. Ó 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Introduction Marketing literature and practice converge around the idea that, especially when it comes to services, customers play different foundational roles in value-creation mechanisms. Marketing theory recently introduced the concept of the service dominant logic (SDL), according to which the customer is always a co-producer of value, not a target...
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