The events of the past year, and in particular the pandemic, forced supply chains to rapidly change and shined a new spotlight on supply chains. Looking ahead, supply chain leaders have an opportunity ...

A Value Chain is a set of activities that a company performs in order to deliver its product or service for the market. The concept was introduced by Michael Porter in his 1985 best-seller, ...

The value chain depicts all of the key profit-building activities a company engages in, beginning with inbound logistics and moving through operations, outbound logistics, marketing and sales and ...

For your small business to have a competitive edge, certain fundamentals must be in place to succeed. Those fundamentals comprise the value chain analysis, a concept developed and advanced by Michael ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management. The idea behind value chain segmentation is that not all customers or consumers ...

On first inspection, the card payments industry appears to be a mismatch of service providers covering similar functions. However, each firm has an important role in the card payment process. From ...

It is difficult to locate value within the conventional notion of the petroleum industry, especially in the upstream. A holistic approach to the much broader petrochemical and petroproduct value ...

Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology has moved beyond concept into a transformative force reshaping the automotive industry and the broader economy. As the sector matures, a clear value ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anjana Susarla is a professor of Responsible AI at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. With tech ...

From chatbots writing poetry to algorithms helping doctors read scans, the headlines make it feel like a revolution is unfolding. But for market observers, the question isn’t whether AI matters, but ...