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Optimizing Your Global Value Chain
Maximizing your firm’s potential requires that you find the most appropriate place for your organization in the value chain. There are a large number of different ways to integrate into Global Value Chains. Here are the most frequently used ways:
- Selling: Selling product into a value chain or to a supplier into that chain.
- Off-shoring: Moving aspects of business to lower cost locations.
- Out-sourcing: Delegating select business processes to third party vendors.
- Canadian Direct Investment Abroad (CDIA): Includes buying a foreign company for their production network, building an overseas facility for new market access, etc.
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): Includes attracting investment from a foreign firm to leverage their assets, such as capital, research, product, etc.
- Joint Ventures: Allow for strategic collaboration, risk sharing and access to additional resources, including collaborative research and development.
For more information, please refer to the guide entitled Linking in to Global Value Chains | PDF version * (739 KB). We encourage you to do the exercises, they will help you find the best strategy for your business.
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