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Closing the Gap Moving to the Next Level: A Scoping Study

Closing the Gap Moving to the Next Level: A Scoping Study. Project Update January 2006 Nottingham. Update January 2006. Project summary Work package 1 - literature review What has changed since the last time? Work packages Data used and required Progress. Project Summary.

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Closing the Gap Moving to the Next Level: A Scoping Study

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  1. Closing the GapMoving to the Next Level: A Scoping Study Project Update January 2006 Nottingham

  2. Update January 2006 • Project summary • Work package 1 - literature review • What has changed since the last time? • Work packages • Data used and required • Progress

  3. Project Summary • To investigate at the firm level how companies move up the value chain and if this delivers productivity gains • Scoping study to deliver: • literature review • research questions • methodology and research instruments to identify factors of repositioning • case studies

  4. Work Package 1 – Literature Review Scope of review Strategy Innovation Productivity Value Chain

  5. Strategy Innovation Value Chain Productivity Literature Review Marketing Movement in value chain Lack of creativity in manufacturing GDP Labour productivity What is the value chain? How is it different from the supply chain? Value Add

  6. Literature Review • Perspectives on value • Customer – the ultimate judge of value • Firm – delivering through their value proposition • Value chain – the business system that delivers value • Economic – firm and national level

  7. Literature Review

  8. Outcome of work package 1 Clearer focus • UK manufacturing companies • SME = companies with less than 250 employees • Sectors = Biotech, Electronics and Industrial Products • The Productivity performance • Value add (VA) • Profit performance • VA per employee or VA per hour work

  9. What has changed since the last time? Original starting point Firms that have moved up the value chain • A more detailed framework for moving forward Productivity performance Did the firms move up the value chain? Productivity performance New starting point

  10. Work packages and timelines Work packages • Literature review – due end of Jan 06 • Stakeholder analysis – due end of Feb 06 • Secondary data gathering and analysis • Refinement of work packages 1-3 • Case studies • Final report and full research proposal

  11. Data Sets Data what have we have got and what do we need? • We have company data from the FAME database to frame our study to select companies but not a statistical analysis of productivity performance • We will collect data from: • Stakeholders • Case studies within sectors

  12. Progress • November 2005 project meeting – scope and approach of literature review decided • December 2005 formal kick-off • 13th January 2006 project meeting - output of work to date on literature review and criteria for selecting companies within sectors

  13. What is next? Short term • Finish literature review • Stakeholder investigation

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