Spring 2009

Toronto Cluster Action/Research Event Value Network Analysis Cluster: Optimizing Business Performance   March 20 2009 8:30am - 5:00pm Workshop Check In Secure, online registration includes meals, refreshments, materials. Group discount is available. Also included is a 90-day, full-privilege subscription to VNA Professional Edition. Registration in advance required. No on-site registration. Your transaction email response is your event registration receipt.   “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 Asia     Wed, Jan 07, 2009, The Business Times Affiliates

Toronto Cluster Action/Research Event Centre for Social Innovation Centre for Social Innovation Alterna Boardroom (4th floor) 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 120 Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7 Canada Tel. 416.979.3939 Fax. 416.979.3936 info@socialinnovation.ca Directions Map Popular Toronto Meetup formed for Knowledge Workers. Join. Subscribe to Value Networks Email:

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Value Network Analysis Cluster:
Optimizing Business Performance

Centre for Social Innovation
March 20 2009
8:30am - 5:00pm

Workshop Check In

Secure, online registration includes meals, refreshments, materials. Also included is a 90-day, full-privilege subscription to VNA Professional Edition. Registration in advance required. Group discount is available. No on-site registration. Your transaction email response is your event registration receipt.

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Toronto Workshop Leader

Verna Allee, M.A.
President and CEO
Value Networks, LLC

Time	Workshop Themes and Activities
08:30 - 09:00	Continental Breakfast & Registration
09:00 - 10:30	Foundations Value Networks: Principles, Modeling Basics, Tools and Capabilities [Introducing VNA with NetMat™]
10:30 - 11:00	Morning Break
11:00 - 12:00	Case Studies Value Network Case Studies: Strategy, Innovation and Project Management [Leading a Value Network Engagement]
12:00 - 12:45	Special Keynote Presentation The Future of Network Analysis: Opportunities and Challenges Barry Wellman NetLab
12:45 - 1:30	Hosted Luncheon
1:30 - 2:15	Next Practices Innovation Networks DAVID TICOLL IT & Business Strategy Visionary
2:15 - 3:00	Applications Lessons Learned: Value Networks Analysis of the Discovery of Viagra® Paul Edwards  Vice President of Chemistry
3:00 - 3:30	Afternoon Refreshments
3:30 - 5:00	Next Practices Value Network Analysis: Hands-on Experience with Value Networks Visualization and Optimization [90-day VNA Professional Edition Included with Registration]
5:00	Spring 2009 Workshop Adjournment

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Abstract and Benefits

The Value Network Analysis Workshop themes are value networks and value network analysis (VNA).

Over the last decade networks and analysis have exploded onto the business scene. Widespread, fundamental advancements in productivity, innovation and collaboration are being achieved with value networks and VNA.

VNA Professional Edition is leading new, innovative practices in network analysis. The Value Network Analysis Workshop equips you with the following benefits and advantages.

• Develop skills in value networks;

• Gain hands-on practical experience with VNA;

• Understand social, organizational and value network analysis;

• Identify value networks, process engineering and system dynamics synergies;

• Understand how to plan and apply value network analysis for business improvement;

• Describe value network users organizations and their advantages;

• Expand your visualization and analysis capability with VNA technology;

• Elaborate how value networks and VNA expands and improves current methods such as
  Lean, TQM, 6-Sigma, Hoshin, ISO-9000, OD/OL, System Dynamics, Baldridge, etc.

• Generate multi-faceted, cross-industries insights and dialogue in value networks.

This special, low-cost workshop includes a 90-day, fully functional licenses to VNA Professional Edition with your Workshop Registration.

Who should attend Enterprise Value Networks?

• Executives, directors, managers and leaders;

• Entrepreneurs, scholars, academics and students;

• Consultants, practitioners and subject matter experts;

• Business collaboration evangelists and community managers.
   

The value networks methodology is the best way to identify, visualize, analyze, evaluate, prioritize and manage and lead far more competitive and effective networks. How and why is this possible?

• Focus on business value networks in concert with supply chains, processes, transactions and social networks.

• Consideration of roles, links, exchanges and overall networks in addition to transactions, organizations and processes.

• Give intangibles the same level of attention and focus of tangibles.

• Easy to use network visualization and optimization technology.

This value networks cluster will show you how organizations use VNA Professional Edition for all three levels of network analysis –

1. Process to Network (Business Process Management, BPM);

2. People to Network (Social & Orgainzational Network Analysis, SNA/ONA);

3. Network to Value (Value Network Analysis, VNA).

Value networks span organizational boundaries. They are the organizational X-ray showing where work is done and value created. It is time to reorient many business and knowledge-based activities to the concept of value and value networks. You will gain the models, technology, analysis tools, methods and language needed to elaborate and optimize value networks. Value network analysis orchestrates key organizational reporting mechanisms.

Social computing, social networks and value network analysis are also a foundation of these emerging value webs and networks. They help define the pathways and topologies for effective value networks, knowledge management, collaboration and productivity growth. These foundational 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, governments, agencies, NGOs, militaries, hospitals and academic institutions are adopting value network archetypes to advance their missions and create spectacular outcomes.

Testimonials: http://www.vnclusters.com/Testimonials.htm 

Your Value Network Analysis Workshop conversations and open collaborations will focus on the knowledge leadership priorities of value networks and analysis. Mastery of these key methods is essential to excellence and leadership in the 21st Century.

All are welcome. The goal of Value Network Analysis Workshop is effective dialogic inquiry and close-in, open conversations with global thought leaders and top practitioners. Unlike expensive, crowded mega-conferences, the modality is authentic, open conversation.