Creating Entrepreneurial Supply Chains: A Guide for Innovation and Growth

Creating Entrepreneurial Supply Chains focuses on unexplored opportunities for growth and innovation, and shows how entrepreneurial supply chains can enhance the value of a business regardless of its form. Dr. Lee takes the reader through the entire process of opportunity identification, due diligence, writing the business plan, managing risks, integrating the entrepreneurial supply chain venture, and reaping the payoff.

Key Features:

--Shows how leading companies such as Cisco, 3M, and Corning developed entrepreneurial supply chains and details the value gained from them
--Discusses how the SCOR model provides a framework for identifying entrepreneurial supply chain opportunities
--Uses a single case throughout to show how one company employed the ideas, concepts, tools, and techniques presented in the text
--Covers various practical and legal forms of entrepreneurial relationships and explains the different ways they can be used
--Illustrates how to develop entrepreneurial supply chain training and education programs
--WAV offers three downloadable presentations for use in educational courses and answers to end-of-chapter questions -- available from the Web Added Value Download Resource Center at jrosspub.com

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to Supply Chains and Entrepreneurship
Chapter 2: Why Entrepreneurial Supply Chains
Chapter 3: Using Customers and Suppliers as Sources of Ideas and Opportunities
Chapter 4: How We Know We Have Opportunities
Chapter 5: Managing the Risks of Entrepreneurial Supply Chains
Chapter 6: Due Diligence and the Business Plan
Chapter 7: Implementing Entrepreneurial Supply Chains
Chapter 8: Reaping the Payoff
Appendix A: Visioning Entrepreneurial Supply Chains
Appendix B: Sample Business Plan for an Entrepreneurial Supply Chain Opportunity
Appendix C: Sample Education and Training Programs for Entrepreneurial Supply Chains
Appendix D: Glossary of Entrepreneurial Supply Chain Terms
Index