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.

Bust the Silos, http://bustthesilos.com/, by Hunter Hastings and Jeff Saperstein, includes an interview with Verna Allee, CEO, ValueNetworks.com. In this followup, Jeff created video interviews, available at http://www.youtube.com/user/ValueNetworks. These high quality videos are interesting and easy-to-follow conversations with Verna.

The series of six videos includes:

What is a Value Network?
Verna describes the concept of value networks, a human-centric network view of how the work gets done.

Integrating Value Networks into the Traditional Organization
Integrating value networks with traditional business approaches such as organizational charts and processes.

Business Process Networks
Reflections on the growing interest in understanding business processes as networks, and how value network modeling provides a fresh approach.

A productivity breakthrough with value networks
How value network modeling revealed the hidden network behind a complex business process, for sharp gains in productivity.

Value Networks and Complex Reorganization
Value network modeling created a breakthrough insight during a complex reorganization of a global company.

How to Become Qualified and Implement Value Network Analysis
Description of the extensive Help Library in the Value Network Insights application, and the process for qualification in the Value Network Analysis method.