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A value network is a web of relationships that generates economic or social value through complex dynamic exchanges of both tangible and intangible benefits.

The Value Networks Clusters are the open industry network for value networks and value network analysis. It is a triangulation of vendors, academia, experts and users.

The goal is to provide awareness, diffusion and adoption of value networks practice, tools and theory. The outcome is to achieved sustained business growth and social good through network master of tangibles and intangibles.

The objective of the Value Networks Cluster is to shape and catalyzes a community of experts, entrepreneurs, enterprise users and value networks professionals. Our goal is to achieve fundamental advancements in the diffusion and adoption of value networks.

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Quotable Quotes

“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 Asia, Jan 2009, The Business Times

"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." – Charles Armstrong, CEO S.A. Armstrong Ltd, Canada

"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. SAP is the central nervous system of 47,000 companies worldwide.

"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, Value Networks, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems

"The Value Network approach is a powerful and practical method based on theoretically sound principles." – Karl-Erik Sveiby, Author - The New Organizational Wealth

"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 of Management and Organizational Effectiveness L-3 Communications

"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

"Value is a relation between persons." Ferdinando Galiani, 1750, Italian Economist

“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, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner, July 2007

"Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do." - Karl Weick, Making Sense of the Organization

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