The Value Creation of Strategic Alliances and Strategic Partnerships: A
Comparative Justification through a Measurement Based on Financial
Value Model. “The Empirical Case of SBF 250 Firms”
Saci Fateh
Sino-French Institute, Renmin University of China

Abstract: This paper examines the interrelationship between two analytical techniques relevant in the organizational technological advancements, and the influence of these techniques on the company’s performance. These analytical techniques constitute comprehending the organization's business processes and introducing e-business to its processes. I extract the model of the procurement process of Incomegypt to hypothesize that developing e-business is highly affected by process automation. The first technique – Ould’s model –details the activities of the procurement process to deploy process automation that enforces the introduction of e-business. The second technique – Earl’s model – enables the firm to assess the company’s current stage of development over six stages. Moving to the next stage of development necessitates internal diagnosis and automation of the business process using Role Activity Diagramming (RAD) – Ould’s model. I hypothesize that process analysis influences process automation directly and utterly mediates the relationship between automation and e-business transformation. The research model is tested using data from interviews with a large number of employees and managers, observation and document analysis. The results provide strong support for the proposed research model. Thus, the analysis of the procurement process using RAD establishes a solid foundation for automating the company’s processes, while also Earl’s technique is used to assess the development of e-business in the organization; both techniques reinforce and complement each other.

Keywords: E-business, Riva model, Business process analysis, process redesign, stages of e-business development, e-procurement, and process improvement