The Antidote: Volume 2 Issue 5
Table of contents
The value chain's legacy
T KippenbergerSuggests that firms in the same industry adopt differing approaches to products, distribution and organizational structures and that these differences, within similar market…
The value chain: the original breakthrough
T KippenbergerAlludes 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…
Apply lean thinking to a value stream to create a lean enterprise
T KippenbergerDiscusses how Womack and Jones' (1991) book, ‘The Machine that Changed the World’ found the gaps in productivity quality and time between Western and Japanese car firms, and…
A cola's cans long and weary journey
T KippenbergerInvestigates the production sequence of cola cans (and their contents) from the raw process of the liquid to the final filling and arrival at the warehouse of the supermarket's…
Lean production in an international supply chain
T KippenbergerLooks at globalization and lean production and their possible interaction. Depicts production as ‘a tightly coupled, flexible system’ centred on JIT (just‐in‐time) delivery and…
The current state of European supply chain management
T KippenbergerElaborates on research carried out by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) to investigate supply chain management in Europe. Specifies the research report was based on responses…
Supply chain management in the Asia Pacific region
T KippenbergerChronicles research on supply chain management in the Asia Pacific region and distributed to the biggest companies in the area — 43 questionnaires were returned from 5 heavily…
Blending the supply chain into a cohesive business system
T KippenbergerEvaluates the Five Partners Model (also known as the Flagship Model) that challenges traditional models of competition. States the flagship firm should consist of leadership to a…
Do value constellations supersede value chains?
T KippenbergerDeclares 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…
The story of IKEA
T KippenbergerSpotlights IKEA (made up of Ingvar Kamprad, the founder, Elmtaryd, his home farm and Agunnaryd, his home village), the Swedish company and world's largest retailer of home…
Smart ideas (Smart cars)
T KippenbergerElaborates on smart designs in the automobile industry (spotlighting, in a panel, the Mercedes‐Benz Smart Car in detail) in many companies and across the world — such as: Brazil's…