Designing Interactive Strategy
From Value Chain to Value Constellation
1. Edition July 1998
XXIV, 160 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
Strategy is the art of creating value. It provides frameworks, conceptual models, and governing ideas that allow a company's managers to identify opportunities for bringing value to customers and for delivering that value at a profit. This book illustrates how new ways of creating value are being created by current global competition, changing markets, and new technologies. It shows how the focus of strategic analysis should not be the company or the industry, but the value-creating system itself, within which suppliers, business partners, allies, and customers work together to co-produce value.
Strategy is the art of creating value. It provides frameworks, conceptual models, and governing ideas that allow a company's managers to identify opportunities for bringing value to customers and for delivering that value at a profit. This book illustrates how new ways of creating value are being created by current global competition, changing markets, and new technologies. It shows how the focus of strategic analysis should not be the company or the industry, but the value-creating system itself, within which suppliers, business partners, allies, and customers work together to co-produce value.
Competitive Dominance in the World of Business.
Economies versus Sectors.
The Microprocessor.
VALUE CONSTELLATIONS.
SECTION A: CO-PRODUCTION.
What Is a Product?
Density of Offerings and Value Creation.
Examples of Co-Production.
The Customer's Customer.
What is a Business?
Shifting Activities Among Actors: Reconfiguration.
Innovative Co-Production Relationships.
.SECTION B: OFFERINGS AND VALUE-CREATION LOGICS.
The Micro Level--A First Look at Its Architecture.
From Value Chain to Value Constellation.
The Offering as Code Carrier.
Leverage.
Value-Creation Logics.
Inherent Dimensions of Offerings.
SECTION C: RECONFIGURATION.
What is Reconfiguration?
Why Reconfigure?
Examples of Reconfiguration.
The Need for Continuous Improvement: Reconfiguring as a Process.
ILLUSTRATIVE CASES.
Introduction.
Example 1: IKEA and the 'What'.
Example 2: Ryder System and the Reconfiguration of the Truck Leasing Industry and The 'What'.
Example 3: Danish Pharmacists and their National Association and the 'How'.
Example 4: The Compagnie Générale des Eaux and the Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux: the Why'.
References.
Glossary.
Index.