As people apply the enormous power of value networks and value network analysis they enjoy telling the world about their discovery. Here are a few of many that are noteworthy.
"Value is a relation between persons." Ferdinando Galiani, 1750, Italian Economist
On ValueNetworks.com
"ValueNetworks.com is part of a larger movement that advances a more holistic view of how organizations create value through fundamental innovation." "Embracing Unpredictability." PwC Technology Forecast: Unlocking Hidden Transformation Value, January 2010, Issue 1.
On the ValueNetworks.com application
 “The product is great, very easy to use.”
“It’s like magic!”
“Very impressive!”
“That’s hot!”
“Comprehensive value network features made incredibly simple.”
“Impressive in scope and innovation!”
“Huge potential!”
“Pretty amazing what's been achieved.”
“Terrific. Very simple, easy to use and understand.”
On Value Networks
“The use of software to help transform organizational processes and create value networks will be a key value driver for businesses going forward. At SAP, we call it Business Network Transformation.” Geraldine McBride, CEO SAP AG, The Business Times
"Disruptive innovations fail because they lack new value networks that combine business models into coherent ecosystems that allow them to disrupt their predecessors. Disruption rarely happens piecemeal, where stand-alone disruptions are plugged into the existing value network of an industry. Rather, entirely new value networks arise, disrupting the old. Employers will need to play a more proactive role in orchestrating the emergence of this new value network, compared to the reactive posture they have taken in the past." Clayton M. Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School
"Software must be designed to allow, and where possible support, rapid modification of sophisticated inter-company processes. It must be capable of mapping not only value chains but entire value networks in order to keep pace with changing conditions." Dr. Henning Kagermann, Chairman and CEO, SAP AG
On Value Network Analysis (VNA)
"Value Network Analysis examines the transactions and relationships among roles that create economic value. The value exchanges are depicted as tangible and intangible deliverables. It can help an enterprise understand which business partners are:
1. Meeting their performance commitments
2. Clear on their role and position in the value network
3. Untapped sources of intangible value"
Carol Rozwell, VP and Distinguised Analyst, Garter, Inc.
"Value Network Mapping of an organization, or even better, multiple organizations is the most unbiased and necessary view into what really goes on in business interactions. If done successfully, it changes the way job roles and the value of interactions are perceived and measured." LaVeta Gibbs, Former Director Global Contact Strategies, Cisco.
"Exposure to VNA models and methodologies will help any practitioner to systematically expose, expand, and act upon the domain of value creation for themselves, their organizations, and for their customers."
"By using SDM (System Dynamics Modeling) and VNA (Value Network Analysis) the Flight Operations, Test & Validation Group restructured its entire business model."Boeing Frontiers, February 2008
"Value Network Analysis, through visuals and conversations, helps build and strengthen the relationships and trust that are vital for people working together as a global enterprise….Now that I know the value networks methodology, I would not consider doing a six sigma, lean, or any other kind of project without first doing a VNA to provide the "systems" context for the initiative." Glenda Turner, Supply Chain Integrator, Boeing IDS
"Value networks are to social organization as Bernoulli's principle is to an ideal fluid. Even while unnamed, unnoticed, and undocumented, the principle helped ships to sail for hundreds of years. Once studied, documented, and understood, it was widely applied to yield far greater utility in a much shorter time span." David L. Hawthorne, NavAgility
“Companies need processes and technology that gives a platform and a voice to the most creative as well as the most eccentric employees, partners and customers. Good ideas can emerge from an inventor working solo, but more often they are a result of collaboration throughout an organization and its value network." Carol Rozwell, VP and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
"Social network analysis is like connecting train cars. Value network analysis tells you what is in those cars, where they came from, where they are going and what the value is." Don Ledbetter, Corporate Director L-3 Communications
"The Value Network approach is a powerful and practical method based on theoretically sound principles." Karl-Erik Sveiby, Author - The New Organizational Wealth
"Value Network Analysis (VNA) is one of the sense-making tools that I emphasize in my book, Net Work . I have had the privilege of working with and learning from its inventor, Verna Allee , and have internalized the mapping of value exchanges into my consulting practice. Whether shared or created with the client or not, it's how I make sense of how a network of actors (inside an organization, or across multiple organizations) gets work done." Patti Anklam, Author -Net Work
“We have found that Value Network Analysis can be an extremely useful tool in mapping out the exchanges of intangibles (knowledge, tips, informal communication, relationships, trust, loyalty, etc.) as well as tangibles (required reports, funds, formalized exchanges) that define the ecosystem -- in this case, the internal ecosystem.” Jeff Lindsay, Innovation Edge
"The genius of VNA is that it is scalable, self-service, context-independent, fast and easy to adopt. It gives immediate and very satisfying results for identifying, visualizing, optimizing and monetizing broad networks of intangibles and tangibles. VNA is the grail of intangibles by making them negotiable and fungible. For intangibles, VNA is sympathetic and polysynthetic using affixes and systems to achieve stunning outcomes. These key properties have been absent from all intangible methods until now."
John Maloney, founder, Colabria Action/Research Networks
On Verna Allee's book The Future of Knoweldge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks
"'The Future of Knowledge' is the future of your business!" -- Bipin Junnarkar, Former Vice President Data and Knowledge Management, HP
"Verna Allee has created the next step in providing a framework and a tool to deal with the ever elusive intangibles. It gives hope that the soft side of the organization can be measured!" - Victor Gulas, Chief Knowledge Officer of MWH Global, Inc.
"Leaders who want to create sustainable businesses must read Allee"s book to understand the importance of using organizational order and disorder to create prosperity through networks. This well researched guide helps us understand and learn the new language and tools to create wealth from intangibles." - Sharon Oriel, Former Director, Global Intellectual Capital Tech Center, The Dow Chemical Company
"A fascinating read that will challenge your assumptions about how it all works!" -- Hubert Saint-Onge, former Senior VP, Strategic Capabilities at Clarica Life Insurance Company, Waterloo, Ontario
"Understanding intangibles has become one of the most important business and economic questions all over the world. Verna Allee takes us beyond industrial age management practices and shows us that people are the active agents in value creation. Egil Sandvik, HR Norway and Head of Forum for Intellectual Capital, Norway
Charles Armstrong, CEO S.A. Armstrong Ltd, Canada (a top 50 company in Canada) |
