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Dec 2016
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Ep. 19: Value Chain Analysis

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... Strategy is an integrated set of activities to help companies achieve a sustainable competitive advantage and value chain analysis is a tool to help companies determine such set of activities. In other words, value chain analysis is at the core of business strategy, and hence at the core of strategy consulting ...

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