[ebxml-dev] Fwd: Porter number one

[James Bryce Clark <jamie.clark@mmiec.com>]

I enjoyed Todd's post to the CEFACT ebxml group doing catalog work 
[ebtwg-cpb@lists.ebtwg.org], so I am forwarding an excerpt
here.   
Thanks, Todd   JBC

> Date: Wed, 29
> May 2002 20:12:29 -0700
> From: Todd Boyle <tboyle@rosehill.net>
> Subject: Porter number one
>
> Michael E. Porter was chose as the #1 ranked genius on Accenture's list
> last week,
> http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enweb&xd=_dyn/dynamicpressrelease_487.xml
>
> The Porter value chain rocks,
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Michael+E.+Porter%22&num=30&safe=off
>
> In the May 2001 spec, "BPproc.doc" para. 7.2 said
>
> "1.1    Catalog Categorization Scheme
> The catalog's categorization scheme is based upon an enterprise value
> chain, the concept pioneered by Michael Porter, following review of
> several other reference models.  A value chain is a purposeful
> network of business processes designed to cumulatively transform a set of
> process inputs into an output of greater value to the enterprise's set of
> customers.  Porter's Value Chain stages are illustrated in Figure
> 7.2 below as resource flows which progress from left to right in
> transforming inputs as labor, capital, and goods into components of a
> business's final product *** "
>
> The Porter Value Chain has been a foundation of BP catalog classification
> since at least 2000.   Nita says that Porter Value chain
> remains the basis for our BP Cat classification, and in Barcelona, the
> reference model based on Porter Value Chain was accepted by TMWG as the
> recommended reference model for the Business Domain View within
> UMM.  In other words this will be the UN/CEFACT recommended
> reference model for business process classification scheme.  So this
> is a great affirmation of the work that has been done by ebXML BP Catalog
> team, grounded in business ontology.
>
> Economics might be the "dismal science" but by gosh, ebXML is
> state of the art :-)
>
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