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TEchNOLOGy TRaNSFER MODEL - Javna agencija

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BUSINESS <strong>MODEL</strong>S<br />

2.4.4 Customer Interface<br />

The customer interface defines how your products and services get to your customers and how your customer interfaces should be<br />

designed. The following questions are relevant:<br />

• What are our main distribution channels?<br />

• What‘s our pricing policy?<br />

• What customer service do we offer?<br />

• How do we bind our customers to the company?<br />

When developing new business models try also to think about new kinds of customer interfaces such as for example the Web 2.0.<br />

which offers numerous ways of interaction with existing, but also potential customers.<br />

2.4.5 Value Chain<br />

The value chain is an essential part of any business model. It describes the categories of activities within and around an organization,<br />

which together create a product or service. A company should ask itself:<br />

• What are our core processes and what‘s the degree of vertical integration?<br />

• Where are the locations where value is generated?<br />

• How do we generate value?<br />

• How is the organization structured?<br />

• How do we handle logistics?<br />

The concept of the value chain was developed in relation to competitive strategy by Michael Porter. The graph shown is a representation<br />

of a value chain.<br />

Graph 3: The Value Chain within an organization<br />

Primary activities are directly concerned with the creation or delivery of a product or service and comprise inbound logistics, operations,<br />

outbound logistics, marketing and sales and services. Each of these groups or primary activities is linked to support activities.<br />

Support activities help to improve the effectiveness or efficiency of primary activities and comprise procurement, technology development,<br />

human resource management and the firm’s infrastructure.<br />

Value Chain Analysis is one way of identifying which activities are best undertaken by a company itself and which are best provided<br />

by others (outsourced). In addition it can be used to determine strategies where competitive advantages (cost or differentiation<br />

advantages) can be sustained.<br />

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