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Beyond the supply chain: An operations response system as an efficient means of implementing a “customercentric” market response
Walters, David; Rainbird, MarkPublished 2007-11-01Supply chain management would appear to be at the end of its lifecycle. Customers of all types are expressing preferences based upon some degree of product-service differentiation and not simply on cost. The growing interest ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Cash flow management and strategic responses that create corporate value: Some observations
Walters, DavidPublished 2008-07-01The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which cash flow management, the value of the organisation, and strategic decision making are correlated. A cash flow model is proposed based upon four levels of strategy ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Costing value chain relationships: A challenge for strategic cost management and value chain management
Walters, DavidPublished 2009-03-01The global business environment is changing rapidly. Among the many changes are a number of challenges; one important change being the increase in inter-organisational relationship management and the challenge being – how ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The demand chain and response management: New directions for operations management?
Walters, David; Rainbird, MarkPublished 2008-07-01Supply chain management would appear to be at the end of its lifecycle. Customers of all types are expressing preferences based upon some degree of product-service differentiation and not simply on cost. The growing interest ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The emergence of interactions as strategic entities in value chain networks
Bhattacharjya, Jyotirmoyee; Walters, DavidPublished 2009-04-01Purpose: The article analyses the interactions that are engaged in when specialist organisations collaborate in value chain networks. It aims to bridge the gap between existing theory and emerging practices and identify a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Emerging business models
Walters, DavidPublished 2008-04-01Magretta (2002) suggests, using the example of American Express in the nineteenth century, that: " a successful business model represents a better way than the existing alternatives. It may offer more value to a discrete ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A future in manufacturing: Major issues to be resolved by Australia Pty Ltd
Walters, David; Bhattacharjya, JyotirmoyeePublished 2013-05-01When asked for a view for the prospects for the Australian automotive industry’s survival while addressing the Australian British Chamber of Commerce in Melbourne, 11 April 2013, Jac Nasser, current chairman of BHP-Billiton ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
A global perspective on pallet life-cycle management practices and a research agenda
Bhattacharjya, Jyotirmoyee; Walters, DavidPublished 2012-11-01The purpose of this paper is to understand the complexity of pallet life cycle management practices in the context of resource scarcity, rising costs and different regulatory environments. The paper integrates a detailed ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The implications of interactions theory and application for value chain management
Walters, DavidPublished 2007-11-01As organisation structures become flexible in the response to market opportunities it is interesting to probe the underlying reasons that have facilitated these developments. It is not the just attraction of low capital ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The logistics implications of emerging business models
Walters, DavidPublished 2011-07-01The network structure has expanded the nature of organisational economics from a limited perspective, based upon economies of scale (within which the firm became volume oriented striving to achieve its minimum cost/volume ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The logistics implications of the emerging business model
Walters, David; Newton, JeffreyPublished 2010-05-01In what may eventually be called the fastest recovery from a recession in modern business we should be considering the lessons emerging from the 2008/9 financial crisis which witnessed the demise of corporate giants and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The management of women with ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast in Australia and New Zealand between 2007 and 2016
Omling, Sofia; Houssami, Nehmat; McGeechan, Kevin; Zackrisson, Sophia; Jacklyn, Gemma; Walters, David; Barratt, Alexandra; Farber, RachelPublished 2021Background The incidence of detected ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) continues to increase and now accounts for 14% of all breast cancer, and 20%–25% of screen-detected cases. Treatment trends of DCIS are important in ...Article -
A modified product life cycle becomes a useful basis for a new product-service strategy model
Walters, David; Bhattacharjya, JyotirmoyeePublished 2012-06-01The recent financial problems of the 2008/10 GFC and the likelihood of similar events occurring in 2012/13 has ‘spooked’ business and consumer confidence and has resulted in fierce competition in both B2C and in the derived ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Networks alliances as strategy: A case study of an SME in an emerging economy
Lok, Peter; Rhodes, Jo; Walters, DavidPublished 2011-08-01This study adopts a qualitative approach to examine key factors to build successful network alliances in emerging economies. A market leader firm in the retail optical industry in China was used in this study. Data from ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Response management: Strategic and operational considerations
Walters, DavidPublished 2008-08-01The 21st century is well underway and already the future is becoming clear. The opportunities confronting business organisations include; new high added-value product-services, new business models, new approaches to ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Using Rudyard Kipling to design value chain processes: An application of interactions theory
Walters, DavidPublished 2007-05-01“I keep Six Honest Serving Men, (They taught me all I know), their names are What and Why and When, And How and Where and Who.” Egan (1998) reminds us how important these characters are in their role of ‘life long learning’ ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Using value chain networks to enhance cash flow management and create corporate value: Some observations
Walters, DavidPublished 2009-04-01Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which cash flow management, the value of the organisation, and strategic decision making are correlated. Methodology/Approach: A cash flow model is proposed ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The value chain approach imposes increased expectations on logistics management
Walters, DavidPublished 2008-04-01As business organisations move toward network structures, and virtual models replace vertical organisations (or begin to become part of them), it is time to consider the role of logistics management in light of these ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Value chain positioning: Performance and partnerships
Walters, DavidPublished 2007-09-01The value chain is widely discussed by academics and practitioners. Among the numerous issues to be resolved one is of pressing importance; where in an industry value chain should the individual firm operate. The traditional ...Open AccessWorking Paper
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