Business Ecosystem >>> Value-added Chain
A value chain is a set of activities that a company operating in a specific industry performs in order to deliver a valuable product or service for the market.
The concept comes from business management and was first described by Michael Porter in his 1985 best-seller, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance.
In a broad sense, the value creation system covers the entire business ecosystem and includes the value-added chains of:
Schematically, the value-added chains of the company and business ecosystem are represented in the following figure:
Analyzing the existing business models, we identified the key elements of the value-added chain that change in the process of improvement: