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Business Capabilities as configuration elements of value added networks

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The ubiquitous globalization, which opens up new markets, often with local content requirements and different labor cost levels, forces enterprises to organize their added value within global networks. The tendency to concentrate on the companies’ core competences challenges the companies further not only to organize their different sites but also to consider their partners and suppliers. The emerging value added networks have to be configured, operated, optimized and dynamically reconfigured. This article presents an approach for the configuration and evaluation of these value added networks based on Business Capabilities and Value Added Modules. Therefore the needed Business Capabilities to achieve the intended added value are matched with the Business Capabilities provided by the different nodes of the network and different network alternatives are developed and assessed to find efficient configurations.

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Parts of the presented research project in this article have been made possible by kind support of the KSB-Stiftung.

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  1. wbk Institut für Produktionstechnik, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Kaiserstraße 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jürgen Fleischer & Jörg Ude

  2. BizT@lk AG, Competence Center Karlsruhe, Haid-und-Neu-Str. 7, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Markus Herm

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Fleischer, J., Herm, M. & Ude, J. Business Capabilities as configuration elements of value added networks. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. 1, 187–192 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11740-007-0012-1

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