Xerox’s executive leadership has managed to steer the company from the precipice of financial ruin to astounding success by focusing the organization’s activities on its value chain: Inbound Logistics (customer needs) > Operations (R&D activities To solve customer Issues) > Outbound Logistics (Technology Solutions delivered) > Marketing & Sales (sales force Representing technology solutions) > Service (ongoing customer care) The effectiveness of this focus on R&D as the primary link in the value chain is apparent in Xerox’s financial turnaround where it reported revenues of ($94m) in 2001 to its current $978m in 2005 (“Anne” 16)...
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The clear shift in corporate strategy that resulted from this reworking of its value chain was that Xerox moved from a product oriented company to a service oriented company because that was what was producing most of its inbound logistics travel. Strategy Development As Xerox was able to refocus on its more refined value chain and it recognized that services were driving its industry rather than products, it reworked both its business model and its corporate strategy because of the insights gained through the value chain...
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