Value Chains, Value Streams, Value Nets, and （价值链、价值,价值网,和）.pdf

BPTrends ▪ April 2009 Value Chains, Value Streams, Value Nets Value Delivery Chains Value Chains, Value Streams, Value Nets, and Value Delivery Chains George W. Brown The Value Chain Group together with partners have developed approaches and methodologies to support the process of successfully aligning business and IT strategies, architecture, design, execution, monitoring, and management of the processes. But there has still been a considerable amount of discussion about value chains and related concepts like value streams and value nets by those involved in business process change. This paper discusses the evolution and current use of these concepts. Clarification of this terminology is especially important to those of us involved in the Value Chain Group, as our framework depends on a clear understanding of these terms. The Value Chain Group The mission of the Value Chain Group is to enable excellence in value chain performance by leading the development, promotion, and maintenance of a unified, broadly adopted, open standard business process framework and related reference models for value chain management. The Value Reference Model (VRM) is a key model of the VCG. VRM provides common and normalized business semantics. There are advantages of using VRM as the common business semantics language: There are advantages of using VRM as the common business semantics language: It helps to analyze and understand customer facing BI processes; provides detailed substantiation for any business ru