Value Networks Blog

Value network are complex sets of social and technical resources that create business, economic and social value.

Value networks are the way people naturally organize around roles and resources to create value. Value is created through tangible and intangible exchanges between roles as people go about their work. Value networks operate in public agencies, civil society, in the enterprise, institutional settings, and all forms of organization. Companies have both internal and external value networks. External facing networks include customers or recipients, intermediaries, stakeholders, open innovation networks and suppliers. Internal value networks focus on key activities, processes and relationships that cut across internal boundaries, such as order fulfillment, innovation, lead processing, or customer support. Local, regional and global value networks advance innovation, wealth, social good and environmental well-being.


July 27, 2010

Value Networks Bring High Performance to Business Operations

Integrating business processes and collaboration networks

Value Network Insights™ applies new analytical processes to present the first web-based application providing network views of business operations.

Why is this important?

It is important because Value Network Analysis provides a true picture of how value is created at the intersection of business processes and collaborative networks. This new value network intelligence capability provides insights, specific predictions, alerts, and recommendations for proactive performance management. Adopting companies can achieve a radical competitive advantage with greater agility and effectively mitigating performance risk in organizational structures, workflow, processes, and collaborative relationships.

Why do other approaches lack this capability?

Business applications and platforms range from the tightly structured processes and transactions in business transaction applications to the looser structures of collaboration and social network platforms. Some, such as business process and collaboration platforms are internally focused, while others are more externally focused with less visibility and control.  While collaboration and social network platforms are being widely adopted, they lack the network analytics and business linkages required to streamline business performance. Also, this analytical capability is not provided by traditional transaction tracking and analysis systems (BI, BPM, BPMS, CPM workflow tools, ERP, supply chain, CRM, asset management, etc.) and newer Web 2.0 applications (social CRM, social networking, agile organization tools).

Value Network Insights™ fills the important white space in business performance – aligning the power of human interactions with processes to effectively manage complex business activity.Our more human-centric, role-based network view delivers the needed analytics. It brings a sharper business focus to collaboration platforms and reveals hidden network patterns that drive business performance.

Value Networks Integrate BPM and Collaboration

Topic Tags:  business operations, collaboration platforms, hidden network patterns