Hi Laurie - Yeah, the 6-Sigma people have done a nice job of (over) institutionalizing their technique. BTW, 6-Sigma is easily Number One - The Stupidest...
Great insights Matt! Orgnet now has a data base of high performing organizations and their network patterns and training/mentoring on how other organizations...
Hi Matt -Â "Many business decision makers still do not see the world in terms of networks..." Yes, of course, this is correct. However, the irony is they DO...
... networks < Lamentably true. But many do not even get as far as taking a process view either. It's a double-whammy. IMHO, we need to 'educate' ...
Hi – Process mapping is futile, counterproductive and harmful in knowledge-based organizations and activities. Organizations are social systems. They are...
Sorry for the long post but....I guess when I wrote the original post I was looking for something that could create a step change in the adoption rate of SNA...
Hi Laurie -- "Maybe this is back to John Maloney's comment about getting to the students and MBA programmes.....let's hope its no that hard!" This was my...
Hi - This raises the question if value networks/VNA business principles were so great, why did the Value Networks firm suddenly collapse? Hmmmm. Thoughts? This...
John - You write as if VNA is "history", but my understanding is that they've simply restructured organizationally. You also seem to imply that it is...
John, I don't think it's appropriate to use a modest business financial restructuring to declare an "end" to a conceptual model with a solid methodology. See...
Patti,thanks for your clarification! We here in Brazil love Verna. 2011/5/10 Patti Anklam <patti@...> ... Patti,thanks for your clarification! We here...
Hi Patti - Thanks for your note. For the aphorists in the group, concerning the VN/VNA fiasco, "Drink your own champagne!" or "Doctors, heal thyself!", comes...
Hi Patti - Allow me to correct your remark and inform others here at ONA-Prac. According to Verna Allee, effective 1 June 2011, Value Networks, LLC is being...
Yes I think rolling out the funeral notice is a little premature. The basic concept is solid. How it is beneficially exploited is what interests me. We are...
Hi Laurie - Yes, of course. "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain The method, technique, research, content, tools and body of...
Hi Laurie – The End of Value Networks is not a funeral notice. Rather, it is good project management and a robust KM practice. It is called a post mortem, an...
John, While I think it made some valid points, I found your original post a bit weird in terms of tone. It seemed to be making some thinly-veiled attacks on...
John...I'm not clear on the facts in terms of the software product. Whether it is dead or not or just hanging in there, no doubt we can say that software...
Laurie - Thanks, good, consistent AAR observations. First, the current Value Network offering is dead. (No one was using it anyway.) Remember, winding down and...
Controllability of complex networks (Yang-Yu Liu, Jean-Jacques Slotine, & Albert-László Barabási) The ultimate proof of our understanding of natural or...
Hi Ive uploaded a pdf file to "files" area "SNA_Social_cap_knowldg_netw_innovtn". Im keen to explore ways in which the role of social capital, networks, and...
Hi Lawrence I surely will follow u up on the LinkedIn discussion The Elevator speech is surely a way to get us thinking in terms of what managers need to know...
Hi Laurie – Thanks again for raising and pursuing this key issue. I was looking for something that could create a step change in the adoption rate of SNA by...
Hi - Sometime ago Roberto Dandi, Research Fellow at LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome) asked, "Who's doing consulting services using SNA?" The response was...
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