The VES innovation platform exists to cultivate collaboration in order to:-
- explore topics and invite additional insights (free to participate),
- address client organizational challenges (subscription or agreed fee).
Why VES specifically?
It is virtually unique in representing how organizations really work, enabling participants to co-create adjustments to meet new challenges and achieve growth and success.
Things to know about VES:-
The store of knowledge and intelligence here guides how to use VES successfully. It covers:-
You will need mastery of a very short vocabulary (nouns, adjectives, verbs adverbs - all the boring stuff) to enable total fluency and confidence in formulating needed solutions to those identified challenges.
The numerous antecedents to VES include many disciplines which were given an airing in the peer-reviewed technical paper here, and later formally introduced here.
There are many examples of the successful analysis of value networks, with a representative selection here:-
- Utilizing VNA to develop new technology adoption strategies and improve outsourcing decisions at a global consumer products company (Kimberly-Clark).
- Conducting ground breaking research into the mobile workforce from a role based perspective at Knoll, resulting in new strategies and research publications that build brand for the company.
- Incorporating role based interactions into an collaborative work assessment instrument for the Way of Work Program at Telenor
- Streamlining fault handling in the Norwegian market for Telenor.
- Helping SAP develop its industry value network strategy for the Transportation Industry Vertical and exploring technology innovation opportunities.
- Conducting evaluations of the impact of the FP6 programs on the innovation systems across all 255 regions of Europe for the IST Program Evaluation Group at the European Commission
- Developing strategies, roles and resource needs, value and task flows, performance metrics, and financial and non-financial strategic impact indicators for Cisco’s Customer Interaction Network
- Defining scenarios and clarifying tangible and intangible cost/benefits as a first step in working with Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma projects at Boeing, Cisco, Mayo Clinic, and others
- Reducing scheduling time for complex ablations in the cardiology group at Mayo Clinic
- Analyzing roles and value creating relationships in the pharmaceutical industry as a whole in Europe and defining the value network behind the successful launch of Viagra
- Analyzing test operations for the 787 Boeing Dreamliner to optimize workflow and design the new Test Operations Center, determining performance indicators and defining service level and performance agreements at the level of transactions, scenarios and whole system performance. Mapping networks required to support different product offerings
- Creating future scenarios for the top-level strategy group at one of the big 4 financial services and audit firms to identify influencers in the market space and assess business and industry impacts
- Evaluating tangible and intangible benefits in strategic alliances at a South African Bank
- Integrating it as a core methodology into an aerospace company’s new business offering for a sophisticated analysis service being marketed to the defence industry
- Formulating a new business model for a UK start-up company
- Identifying and understanding key markets for a European merger & acquisition organization
- Improving supply availability and strengthening supplier relationships both regionally and globally for the Australian affiliate of a large multi-national organization
- Addressing contracting issues and developing a new business strategy at a Dutch IT firm
- Modeling knowledge exchanges in a European network of government professionals
- Enhancing communication and improving commercialization of agricultural research at a government agency in New Zealand
- Analyzing errors during shift changes in hospitals for a private research organization
- In conjunction with Blackstone Franks, a City of London corporate finance boutique, the dynamics of preparing a business for sale.
Cataleyes is the place where the action is, so head here.
Contact:- For a conversation about VES and its applications, contact the Cataleyes Brigade Lead, David Meggitt, via david@cataleyes.net or home office tel: UK 0208 398 0797.
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