Chapter 3. Deconstructing Your Business: Component Business Model

To gain business and IT alignment, you must focus on the right business processes. Your company must view your business processes as a set of linked components that address the strategic, technical, operational, organizational, and financial issues that businesses deal with today. Because industries and enterprises are disaggregating themselves and spreading the implementation of individual business tasks to the parties that can best deliver these specialized services (for example, in electronics, financial services, and automotive), they need tools and insight that help them determine their competitive advantage and how to drive growth based on their unique value proposition to ...

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