In this podcast, Sam Mishra talks about Value Chain Analysis and associated strategy concepts like forward integration, backward integration, off-shoring, outsourcing etc. Sam leverages his substantial experience in the software industry and explains a complex concept like Value Chain (which is typically used to analyze manufacturing companies) and how it can be applied to services companies like software. In the proces
- What is forward integration, what is backward integration, how can you take strategic make-vs-buy decisions in the context of off-shoring / outsourcing, etc. When does it make sense to forward integrate (for example, if you are competing with IBM, which has a global services arm, you better acquire a services firm if you don't want all your accounts be taken over by Big Blue), and is the services firm too big to forward integrate / acquire?
- Concepts like "synthesizing product requirements" as opposed to
requirements "analysis" in the context of software development /
manufacturing.
- Why Porter's Value Chain Analysis remains a robust tool to analyze not only a company's core competency, but also complementary assets like off-shored contract software development, off-shored contract software parters doubling up as biz-dev partners who can "open doors", etc.
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Note: To listen to the application of "Value Drain Analysis" (Value Drain is similar to Value Chain, and can be applied to scenarios where value is not created but destroyed) of the $8.7 trillion federal rescue package (if you add to $8.7 trillion another $5 trillion in stock market losses, you arrive at the staggering figure of 13.7 trillion dollars, equivalent to the US GDP, read up on this analysis by Franteractive's President Sam Mishra here), please check the podcasts page on FRANCONOMICS.com.
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