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Skåne Regional Innovation - A Value Network Perspective
This in depth 72 page report describes a value network evaluation performed in the region Skåne of Sweden in the time period April 2009 to June 2009. The goal of the evaluation was to explore the regional innovation system from the perspective of a group of approximately 50 companies providing supporting activities in this system.

Measuring the Impact of Research Networks in the EU: Value Networks and Intellectual Capital Formation
Online version of Paper for the European Conference on Intellectual Capital, Haarlem, The Netherlands,
April 28-29, 2009, Verna Allee and Oliver Schwabe.
The practical implication of this work is that it provides a possible solution to one of the most challenging business issues in the intangibles economy: describing and monitoring the role of intangibles in value creation.

Value Network Analysis and Value Conversion of Tangible and Intangible Assets
Online version of Final Draft, Verna Allee, Published in Journal of Intellectual Capital, Volume 9, No. 1, 2008.
March 2009: The paper has been chosen as a Highly Commended Award Winner in the Emerald Group Publishing Limited Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009.

Symantec Enterprise Support: Acknowledging and Mapping the Support Network
Brad Smith leads the customer support experience effort for Symantec. Through a collaborative process his group used value network analysis to define the customer web experience. (2009)  

A Value Network Model for Strategic Analysis
A new framework for modeling value network of inter-organization interactions. We propose a set of building blocks elements of the model made of economic entities and offering transfers and describe a methodology that configures a business or organization network based on maximizing the consumption of the common value proposition. Alain Biem and Nathan Caswell, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. (March 2008)

21st Century Pharmaceutical Research
To answer the clarion call for more innovation and productivity in Pharmaceutical research, Paul J. Edwards applied the ValueNet Works™ methodology to the innovation story behind the new use of the drug Viagra®. (January 2009)

Estimating Value in Service Systems: A Case Study of a Repair Service System
Globalization of the world economy has led to an increased ability of companies to outsource the planning, design, manufacturing, and distribution functions of their products and services around the globe. It is leading the deconstruction of formerly vertically organized companies and industries into service systems known as value networks. This empirical case research shows the value they deliver, how they deliver it, and how value can be discovered and increased in service systems. IBM Systems Journal (2008)

Wal-Mart Value Networks
See how Wal-Mart pops the "Bentonville Bubble" using a network perspective and sustainable value networks. Stanford Social Innovation Review (February 2008)

Complexity of Service Value Networks: Conceptualization and Empirical Investigation
Discover how service value is created in a network context. Understand the structure and dynamics of value networks. Learn the influence of complexity in the services ecosystem. IBM Systems Journal (January 2008)

ITIL and Value Network Analysis
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library and VNA. Optimice Pty Ltd (September 2007)

Testing the Limits
By using system dynamic modeling (SDM) and value network analysis (VNA), Boeing's Flight Operations, Test & Validation group restructured its entire business model. It is now on its way to taking the new organization for a test flight of its own. Boeing Frontiers (February 2008)

A Value Network Approach
White paper by Verna Allee on value network analysis originally presented at Transparent Enterprise Conference, Madrid. (2002)

Using Value Maps to Redesign Your Organization
41-slide presentation - After only one 3-hour workshop in value network analysis, Brad Smith used the method to completely reorganize Openwave Systems in only two months. (Used with permission.)

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