Value Networks Consortium
The popular Value Networks Consortium ( www.value-networks.org ) is the open global network leading value network standards, taxonomies, visualization, analytics, vocabulary, methods, open tool development, open benchmark datasets and techniques.
Value Networks Clusters ( www.vncluster.com/ ) are the open industry event network for value networks and value network analysis.
Open Value Networks ( www.valuenetworks.org ) is the open repository for the Value Networks Consortium.
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Your Direct Benefits of Membership in the Value Networks Consortium
Membership offers organizations, institutions and individuals the way forward for early-adoption and continuous mastery of value networks. It is instrumental in applying advanced value networks to best advantage in products and services, for a gain in comprehension and for significant competitive benefits. The Value Networks Consortium is the gateway to better value networks understanding, open tools, methods and techniques. Membership provides insight, narratives, relationships and success stories for the use and users of value networks and net-centric operations around the world. This includes far greater organizational effectiveness, frictionless interoperability, entirely new new business opportunities and dramatic cost saving.
Value Networks Consortium members have access to consortium meetings, working groups and electronic discussion groups, providing the best available range of information on value networks development and planning. They see versions of specifications and other technical documents as they are developed, well ahead of formal public release. They receive open tools and methods well in advance of non-members. Members can also play a full part in the creation of standards, tools and methods, helping to ensure they meet their own individual business priorities and requirements.
The popular VN Consortium is your specific relationship building/engagement support network for VN/A and net-centric operations. Consortium members build relationships that result in specific referrals, joint projects and lucrative deals. We have a lot of examples of the how the network powers business growth and wealth creation. The VN Consortium is tuned and optimized for enterprise wide deployment initiatives. In the VN Consortium, people build relationships through their consortium membership. Members consume and contribute materials that serve their constituent networks.
As they come to use value networks in practice, members will have access to advice from the leading technical experts and thought leaders on value networks. They can also make the most of the marketing opportunities available through the organization. Participation helps a member identify itself as a leading and effective value network innovator. Specific advantages of membership include:
Technical tools, methods, plans development:
Access to the very latest value networks visualization technology, mapping
standards and interactive value network analysis;
Continuous open capabilities development to assure the success of members
and their value networks;
Access to the latest and best technical information on value networks
through electronic discussion groups, phone conferences and meetings;
Early view of draft technical documents and value network taxonomies during
their development;
Direct advice from to leading technical experts on value networks on
implementation and other issues;
Direct contact with vendors of value networks software tools, with
opportunities for access to tools and training;
Participation in setting requirements and priorities, ensuring these meet
the needs of your organisation.
Resulting benefits include better decision-making on applied value networks uses and implementation, faster, lower-cost problem solving, rapid time-to-market.
Value networks plans and opportunities:
Information on how industries, government, regulators and consumers of
financial information are planning to benefit from value networks.
Learn how value networks and value network analysis leads the adoption of
service oriented architectures (SOA), mashups and Enterprise 2.0.
Networking with other value networks members, identifying common interests
and possibly developing strategic business partnerships with suitable
organisations.
Participation in liaison with key organisations, including government bodies
and industry associations.
Resulting benefits are the identification of business opportunities and earlier delivery of products and services which meet market requirements for value networks.
Diffusion and Marketing:
Worldwide business development activities for value networks and value
networks analysis.
Ability to publicize and demonstrate products through value networks
consortium announcements and events.
Ability to plan and position products with a good understanding of how the
market can benefit from value networks.
Recognition for your organization as an industry innovator able to make
effective use of new technology and methods.
Resulting benefits include more effective marketing of your products and improved positioning of your organization.
Membership at any level includes membership in the international consortium. An annual membership sponsorship fee is required. The consortium is non profit-making; the fee is used 100% to fund essential technical development, standards and marketing work on value networks. The development and marketing benefits gained by organizational and individual members of value networks easily outweighs the highly leveraged sponsor fee.
Some of techniques to drive your benefits from Value Networks Consortium include:
1. Identify, develop, promote and advance industry value networks standards, visualizations and analytics;
2. Engage stakeholders using visual analytics technologies to further value networks comprehension and mastery;
3. Provide open, high-quality industry standards for value network analysis, taxonomies and reporting;
4. Develop and execute a worldwide business development plan and conversation on value networks;
5. Deliberate value networks diffusion within a large population of experts, users and practitioners;
6. Sponsorship, endorsements and testimonial from recognized thought leaders and respected firms and institutions;
7. Expanded visibility with top academics, executives and enterprise value networks practitioners;
8. Global, integrated value networks communications, blog and worldwide public relations;
9. Careful nurturing and sharing of sponsor data, relationships and value networks ecologies;
10. Prominent Website graphics, links to your offerings and privileges to promote consortium membership;
11. Applied private group collaboration spaces, discussion groups, forums and far-reaching network clusters.
To apply for your Value Networks Consortium today, please use this form.
Value Networks Consortium

Value Networks Consortium Ecosystem
Open / Public / Free Access
Value Network Consortium
(industry value networks)
http://value-networks.org/
Wikipedia (value networks supporters) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_network
Open Content (value networks users) http://www.value-networks.com/
SourceForge (value network analysts, developers)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/genisis
Open / Public / Opt-in / Free (subscribe)
GenIsis VNA User Support (GenIsis
Users) http://groups.google.com/group/genisis
VN Industry Cluster (distributed resources and practices for value
network supporters) http://vncluster.com/
Value Networks RSS Feeds (value network supporters)
http://kmblogs.com/public/blog/102137
Intangibles RSS Feeds (value network supporters)
http://kmblogs.com/public/blog/85529
Value Networks Discussion (discussion group)
http://groups.google.com/group/Value-Networks
Open / Public / Opt-in
VN Cluster Events (open, distributed learning groups for users,
leaders, experts)
http://www.value-networks.org/
VN Cluster (people interested in value networks and knowledge
management) http://www.kmcluster.com/
Private / Invitation only (for qualified practitioners, sponsors and developers)
VN Practitioner Site
(SharePoint™ for qualified practitioners, thought leaders ) email
http://xri.net/@valuenetworks
VN GenIsis Site (SharePoint™ for developers,
VN Consortium, Early
Adopters) email
http://xri.net/@valuenetworks
VN Consortium sponsoring partners are already collaborating to assure their success. The popular VN Consortium accelerates and diffuses these collaboration and favorable outcomes on behalf of its sponsors.
The Value Networks Consortium provides real, reciprocal and first-to-market value to its sponsors. Sponsors and members gain unique and valuable insight, hard deliverables and invaluable relationships. Participation in clusters, forums and workshops and connection to the community of users influences the direction for development and deployment of value networks methods, visuals, standards and analytics. Access to robust industry datasets allows for benchmarking and analysis of industry value networks will advance your value networks achievements and interoperability.
The mission of this value network is to promote a high-level of information exchange and collaboration. It also supports all suppliers of information and visual analytics and technology solutions. These groups recognize and drive forward the substantial advantages of value networks visualization and analytics.
Joining Your Value Networks Consortium
You may join your Value Networks Consortium as a Practitioner, Organization or Sponsor. Three levels of benefits are available for each membership category. Sponsors receive all the benefits of regular members, plus additional and ongoing privileges as described below.
| Benefits | Practitioner | Organization | Enterprise |
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| Individual Membership2 privileges |
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| Awareness of key industry value networks |
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| Rights to identify individual membership in VNC Consortium |
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| Priority access, discount to semi-annual VNC Next Practices Summits |
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| Opportunities to engage the subject matter expert (SME) network community |
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| Two pre-paid registration to Research Clusters Worldwide | |||
| Rights to identify organizational affiliation in VNC Consortium |
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| Membership2 privileges for two additional staff participants | |||
| Expertise to match network opportunities to solutions | |||
| Discount on online training/tutorials | |||
| Forums with Users/Customers only | |||
| Access to published reports, surveys and evaluations |
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| Participation in value network interoperability forums |
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| Invitation to speak at VNC Research Clusters seminar series |
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| Membership privileges for four total VNC participants |
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| Rights to identify sponsorship in VNC Consortium |
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| Participation in architecture and standards forums |
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| Access to test industry data sets, benchmarks, visualizations |
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Sponsorship Levels (annual fee1 USD) |
$1,000 | $2,500 | $5,000 |
1 Memberships are renewable each year on the quarterly anniversary date
of joining.
Individual and organizational registrations completed with standard credit card.
Enterprise sponsorship is invoiced.
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This page is your sponsor agreement. The email transaction record is your receipt.
2 Membership includes special
5% discounts for expert
services, Clusters, fieldbooks,
qualifications, methods and tools for the subscription peroid.
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| Site-located training, 2-day, up to 10 participants | +$10,0003 |
| Site-located speakers, one appearance, half day | +$5,000 |
| Fund joint projects w/ VNC for related R&D | by separate agreement |
| Special function sponsorship rights (e.g. Hosted reception) | by separate agreement |
3 Venue, promotion, registration, materials, travel and lodging furnished by sponsoring organizations.
Contact Information
For additional information, please contact Value Networks Consortium Director, or http://xri.net/@valuenetworks.
