Strategy frameworks & analysis · Core

Value chain

Also called: value-chain analysis

ELI5

The steps that turn inputs into customer value.

Used in conversation

“Map where margin and control sit in the value chain.”

Definition

The linked activities through which an organisation creates, delivers and supports value.

Here “Value chain” means: The linked activities through which an organisation creates, delivers and supports value.

Pitch context

You will see “Value chain” in strategy decks, market analyses, business plans and planning workshops when the discussion reaches strategy frameworks & analysis.

Why it matters: It helps a reader interpret strategy frameworks & analysis without confusing the measure, decision, role or evidence being discussed.

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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.