VG preso on Skills for Net Work.

http://www.jarche.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/propelsj.pdf

Good to buy, read Net Work today.

http://tinyurl.com/6m94my

Important and first pratical guide to org/val/soc networks.

Levels of maturity are standard levels that have been the foundation for many different kinds of maturity models:
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model 

The maturity model can be adapted to value networks as well to address questions of competency in value network strategies. Companies often achieve great success with a value network business model, or internal collaborative value networks, only to have that advantage erode over time. Why is that? In our experience, an organization as not truly mastered value network analysis finds it increasingly difficult to hold the line against the embedded bureaucratic model of organization. As the organization grows in complexity people try to “control” the value network by imposing bureaucratic order either through reshuffling the organizational chart or driving activity into tightly controlled process models.

Value Network Maturity Model

The criteria used for judging value network maturity are as follows:

See the most recent papers on the rapid, diverse and widespread adoption of value networks and value network analysis  at the Open Value Networks site.

http://www.value-networks.com/

They are thoughtful, fun, informative and… mercifully brief.  

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.

The Partnership Scorecard - Assessing the value flows at the role level within partnerships to achieve optimal business relationship ecosystems and more successful partnership outcomes.

CTM Talks – Interview with one of the panelists presenting on the New Ideas in Social Networks event at the February 28-29, 2008 Executive Round Table.

Mobile Workers – Surprising results of a survey of mobile work using value networks analysis.

Wal-Mart Value Networks - See how Wal-Mart pops the "Bentonville Bubble" using a value network perspective and sustainable value networks.

Friend of clusters Ori Brafman http://tinyurl.com/3cdck3 latest book.

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Economist Ori Brafman and his psychologist brother Rom explain why 'the more there is on the line, the easier it is to get swept into an irrational decision.'

The authors offer an accidental motto that ought to be engraved over every casino in the world, to say nothing of every stock exchange. Adding a page to the small but growing literature of behavioral economics, they examine these irrationalities.

 It makes sense that egg sales, for example, would be up around Easter and at the beginning of the month, when paychecks had been freshly deposited. It makes less sense that when egg prices drop a little, people buy more of them than they perhaps can eat, but when they rise by the same amount, people cut back on their consumption by two and a half times.

'This feeling of dread over a price increase,' write the authors, 'is disproportionate to the satisfaction you feel when you get a good deal.' 

 In other words, we seem programmed to expect disappointment and to fight harder to avoid losing a buck than to earn one in the first place, messy matters that carry the reader into the deeper, more complicated recesses of the mind. Also, 'we often ignore all evidence that contradicts what we want to believe.' Eureka! 

One of those rare books that explains the obvious in ways that are not obvious at all. 

"Brilliant."

--Klaus Schwab, chairman of the World Economic Forum 

"A page-turner of an investigation into how our minds work . . . and trick us. Think you behave rationally? Read this book first."--Timothy Ferriss, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The 4-Hour Workweek 

 "Sway helped me recognize an aspect of irrational behavior in my experimental work in physics. Sometimes I have jumped into some research that didn't feel quite right . . . but some irrational lure, such as the hope of quick success, pulled me in."--Martin L. Perl, 1995 Nobel Laureate in Physics

*DISCLAIMER: If you decide to buy this book because of these endorsements, you just got swayed. One of the psychological forces you'll read about in Sway is our tendency to place a higher value on opinions from people in positions of prominence, power, or authority.

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