50Scaling BPM Adoption from Project to Program with IBM Business Process Manager
3.2.3 Setting a compass bearing with value chain analysis
First described and popularized by Michael Porter in his 1985 best-seller
Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, the
value chainis a business management concept that generically categorizes
value-adding activities of an organization. This approach to process discovery
helps identify key processes (activities) and where and how those processes
impact the core business (Figure 3-6).
Figure 3-6 Use value chain analysis to position a business process
The value chain illustrates the ...
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