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"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." Organizational Effectiveness Leader,
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Value Network Analysis is versatile and adaptable to many different business situations. People use value network modeling in companies, government agencies, and non-profits – anyplace people need to work together.
A few examples:
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Project Managers
Project management is of course a highly developed science. Most project managers are able to create relatively detailed project plans for project monitoring purposes. Tools such as Microsoft® Project and Outlook extend regular task planning to resource management and server-based collaboration functionality. ValueNet Works tools and methods offer support in mitigating the risks of project management in three areas. The first is the explicit monitoring and quality control of intangible deliverables, such as support actions and key information. The second area is determining the extent that collaboration actually happens. The third is ensuring that the project management methodology is stringently applied.
Learn more: Value Networks for Project Managers
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Sales Managers
In both initial and recurring sales there are standard patterns of interactions among stakeholders that will lead to success. These patterns consist of certain dynamics and types of exchanges that can be easily defined using the ValueNet Works tools and methods. Deviations from these patterns will usually indicate a lowered probability of closing a sale, especially in a complex sales cycle. The key questions for sales managers are:
Who are the stakeholders of the sales process?
What pattern of interaction repeats itself in successful sales engagements?
Are we deviating from successful interaction patterns?
How can we improve compliance to proven methods and processes?
A value network map of a complex sales process ecosystem, Courtesy Mary Adams
Learn more: Value Networks for Sales Managers
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Business Development Managers
In increasingly dynamic business environments business development managers must be able to identify and address new opportunities quickly and effectively. Business environments can best be understood as ecosystems consisting of interacting roles and exchanges focused on an industry segment. The key challenges for business development managers from an ecosystem perspective are twofold. First is identifying organizations that would benefit from a tighter integration into the system. Second is identifying "white spaces" of opportunity in the system. These can give rise to new offerings that compete with or complement their own organization´s products and/or services. In both cases the ValueNet Works method supports identifying and leveraging such opportunities.
Learn more: Value Networks for Business Development Managers
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Talent Managers and HR
In the interest of creating a level playing field for job applicants, talent managers have been caught in a tight squeeze to meet the changing demands of the workplace. Agile resource allocation is essential for success, yet at the same time there must be transparency and fairness in how people are deployed. Most HR and ERP systems (and even performance review systems) are designed to support one worker holding only one job. Yet, today’s knowledge worker plays multiple roles in an organization. They may spend the morning processing work orders, but in the afternoon they may move to a cross-boundary process improvement project, play a mentoring role for a new hire, or be a member of a strategic council. Typically these other roles are unacknowledged in formal talent management systems. Talent managers benefit from using Value Network Analysis to create a role-based structure for managing the flexible workforce.
Learn more: Value Networks for Talent Managers and HR
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Website Designers
How accurately does your website communicate to the world what your organization is about? Your website is the place where people gain a first impression of your organization. It also provides a view of how you work within your industry value network. After all – your website is your company’s business card.
A Value Network Analysis using the ValueNet Works application can quickly reveal how accurately your Internet presence conveys the purpose of your company – from brand and identity through products and services, to Web 2.0 communities and support, and even to the level of semantic web elements.
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Workspace Designers
Workspace design is rapidly becoming a critical issue for organizations as they seek to not only optimize the use of physical resources (e.g., office building, office layout, and infrastructure), but also find more effective forms of organizational design. These questionshave been addressed in recent research into network structure and mobility programs, by Camille Venezia and Verna Allee, that clearly demonstrates workspace design is not keeping pace with the changing nature of work.
Using value network modeling, our expert analysis can help you evaluate workspace and design new solutions in order to answer the questions (a) How can I reduce the infrastructure cost per employee, and (b) How do I design workspace to support the way work gets done?
Learn more: Value Networks for Workspace Designers
Learn more: Ground Breaking Mobile Workers Study by Camille Venezia and Verna Allee
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CFOs
The CFO recognizes that a broad range of financial and non-financial measures are useful for managing the company. In determining the true value drivers of the business an understanding of financial and non-financial information is essential, as is an understanding of tangible and intangible value (intellectual and competitive). However, effective tools for accomplishing this aspect of the CFO's mission are generally lacking. The ValueNet Works method provides a powerful way to visualize, analyze, and manage tangible and intangible value drivers that are crucial for comprehending and improving company value creation. Shifting to a value network-centric perspective helps a CFO to more effectively balance and structure the financial funding options, resources, and risks of the business.
Learn more: Value Networks for CFOs
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Investors
Investors are primarily interested in understanding the probability of the venture succeeding, and whether it is more attractive than other investment opportunities. ValueNet Works methodw support business plan writers and investors by (a) determining whether the ecosystem of the planned venture is resilient, flexible, and encompassing enough to ensure success, and (b) accurately identifying the value that will be created by the venture within the ecosystem.
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