Texas Cluster  Special Action/Research Event Value Networks and Social Media 21st Century Knowledge Priorities Friday, Sept 29, 2006 8:00am - 5:00pm Secure Registration (Online registration in advance required.) Registration includes meals, books, parking, refreshments, materials, Wi-Fi access, reception, materials, group workspace and discounts on GenIsis and ValueNet Works Fieldbook Subscriptions. Sponsors Affiliates GenIsis Technology & Value Network Fieldbook (Use Discount Code VNA41) Value Networks Feeds and Channels KMBlogs Subscribe to Value Networks Email:

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Value Networks and Social Media
21st Century Knowledge Priorities
Friday, Sept 29, 2006 :: 8:00am - 5:00pm

Special appearance by Karl Wiig, Chairman and CEO

Time	Interaction	Speaker
7:30 - 8:30	Coffee and Registration	Staff
8:30 - 10:00	Value Networks and Analysis Network Strategies for Managing Complexity: Organizational and Value Network Analysis	Verna Allee
10:00 - 11:00	Social Tools Web 2.0. What does it Bring to Business? Case Studies, Success Stories and Next Practices™	Bill Ives
10:00 - 11:30	Morning Break	All
11:30 - 12:30	Special Keynote Conversation: The Core Knowledge Transfer Technology	Nancy Dixon
12:30 - 1:30	Hosted Luncheon	All
1:30 -2:30	Next Practices™ Japan's suppa ginosha Movement: 21st Century Human Capital, Knowledge Transfer, & Organization Development	Michael J. English
2:30 - 3:30	Next Practices™ Time as a New Currency:   Flexible and Mobile Work Strategies	Camille Venezia Director of Workforce Research
3:30 - 4:00	Afternoon Break	All
4:00 - 5:00	Next Practices™ 21st Century Knowledge Leadership: Winning the War for Talent?	Adriaan Jooste Chief Knowledge Officer Robin Athey Research Director Organizational Performance
5:00 - 6:00	Adjournment

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The social and network reorientation of work, business and society is accelerating. Critical to this fundamental transformation are the rapidly expanding fields of social media and value networks.

The Texas Cluster Action/Research themes for Fall 2006 are value networks, social media and network analysis. Over the last several years network archetypes and analysis have exploded onto the KM, collaboration, community, organizational and institutional scene. Social network software and applications are everywhere. Relatively mature and established discipline, social networks and value network analysis are now being applied broadly with stunning results. A lot of new applications have emerged and new, innovative practices have been discovered. The non-commercial, open, low-cost and authentic Spring 2006 action/research conversations will cover this territory and equip you with the following benefits and advantages.

-Develop leadership skills in value and social networks
-Be able to define and elaborate value and social networks
-Learn the synergy of value networks and social networks
-Understand how to plan and apply value network analysis
-Develop relationships with value network leaders and users
-Become active in the global value networks and SNA community
-Describe value network users organizations and their advantages
-Transform yourself and organizations to the value networks perspective
-Greatly expand your value network and analysis capability with Open GenIsis™ Technology
-Elaborate how value networks and SNA expands and improves current methods such as Lean, TQM, 6-Sigma, Hoshin, ISO-9000, OD/OL, System Dynamics, Baldridge, etc.
 

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"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, Boeing, Supply Chain Integrator, Integrated Defense Systems

Value propels organizations. Networks are how organizations are defined. Knowledge work is social. Yet, well-meaning people continue to focus on information access, transactions, process, frameworks and productivity only. The same people freely admit 80%, 90% or even 100% (service/support networks) of their business and value is based on intangibles, yet they continue to only focus on transactions and tangibles!

Value and knowledge span artificial and administrative organizational boundaries. Work and wealth creation now have a social orientation. It is time to reorient all knowledge-based activities to the concept of value and value networks. Your federated action/research network will examine value networks in depth. You will gain the models, analysis tools, methods and language needed to elaborate and optimize value networks.

Social computing, social networks and network analysis are also a foundation of these emerging value webs and networks. They help define the pathways and topologies for effective value networks. These key techniques are also covered in-depth.

Innovation is important only as far as it creates value. Many innovation and productivity initiatives create little/no true value. Only through deliberate network mapping and visualization can value be uncovered, expanded and led. It is value that drives innovation. It's not product features, productivity, transactions or efficiencies. All innovation depends on value and value networks.

No one ever bought a product or recommended a company because the company was ‘productive.’ Customers expect and deserve broad value from their relationships. To win, keep and strengthen customers and business, value and value networks must be visualized and led.

Value networks are omnipresent. They are instrumental in achieving breakthrough outcomes for all human activities, not just business. Many non-profits, government agencies, NGO and institutions are adopting value and social network archetypes to advance there missions and create spectacular outcomes.

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The Texas Cluster Action/Research Network conversations and open collaborations will focus the knowledge leadership priorities of of social networks, media & analysis and value networks.

Mastery of these key methods is essential to excellence and leadership in the 21st Century knowledge economy.

More on Value Networks

Known generally as value networks and value network analysis, they effectively address the following:-

Relationship management: Relationship management typically just focuses on managing information about customers, suppliers, and business partners. A value network approach considers relationships as two-way value-creating interactions, which focus on realizing value as well as providing value.

Market space strategies and investments: Identifying lucrative and powerful investment opportunities requires the ability to quickly assess a complex environment and accurately map the current and emerging market space. A value network analysis helps identify, analyze, evaluate, prioritize, and manage investments in market spaces - ranging from providing seed capital through joint venture financing and support of management buy-ins or buy-outs.

Business web development: Resource deployment, delivery, market innovation, knowledge sharing, and time-to-market advantage are dependent on the quality, coherence, and vitality of the relevant value networks and business webs.

Fast-track complex process redesign: Product and service offerings are constantly changing - and so are the processes to innovate, design, manufacture, and deliver them. Multiple, inter-dependent, and concurrent processes are too complex for traditional process mapping, but can be analyzed very quickly with the value network method.

Reconfiguring the organization: Change is all there is. Mergers, acquisitions, downsizing, expansion to new markets, new product groups, new partners, new roles and functions - anytime relationships change, value interactions and flows change too.

Supporting knowledge networks and communities of practice: Understanding the transactional dynamics is vital for purposeful networks of all kinds, including networks and communities focused on creating knowledge value. A value network analysis helps communities of practice negotiate for resources and demonstrate their value to different groups within the organization.

Use at every level to develop scorecards, conduct ROI and cost/benefit analyses, and drive decision making: Because the value network approach addresses both financial and non-financial assets and exchanges, it expands metrics and indexes beyond the lagging indicators of financial return and operational performance - to also include leading indicators for strategic capability and system optimization.