Verna Allee

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Verna Allee, born 1949 in Kansas,cite web |url= http://www.vernaallee.com/interviews/Alex_Bennet_interview.pdf |title= August 2004 Interview. |format= PDF - Google search for terms "alex bennet" and "fielding university" will find html version |work= VernaAllee.com |date= 2 August 2004 |quote= Excerpts from an interview conducted in the summer of 2004 by Alex Bennet, who was interviewing thought leaders in KM for her [http://www.mountainquestinstitute.com/dissertation.htm dissertation] thesis in the Ph.D. program at Fielding University. ] United States, is an American business consultant and writer on topics including value networks, knowledge management, organizational intelligence, intellectual capital and the value conversion of intangibles.

Allee holds a B.A. in Social Science, and an M.A. in Human Consciousness, specializing in Organizational Leadership.

Verna Allee has authored or co-authored three books on value networks and organizational knowledge. Her book "The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence" offers a road map for understanding knowledge creation, learning, and performance in everyday work. The book "The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks" is about how the networked organization can be understood at a practical everyday level.

Allee is a co-developer of the ValueNet Works Fieldbook [ [http://www.alleevaluenetworks.com ValueNet Works Analysis Fieldbook website.] ] and the GenIsis application (see CDS ISIS). She co-hosts an open resource website [ [http://www.value-networks.com Open Value Networks website.] ] with content under a Creative Commons Attribution License for value network analysis practitioners.

Verna Allee defines value networks as any web of relationships that generates both tangible and intangible value through complex dynamic exchanges between two or more individuals, groups or organizations. Any organization or group of organizations engaged in both tangible and intangible exchanges can be viewed as a value network, whether private industry, government or public sector.

She developed Value network analysis, a whole systems mapping and analysis approach to understanding tangible and intangible value creation among participants in an enterprise system.

She is a sponsor and supporter of The Value Network Consortium [http://www.vnclusters.com] , which addresses the infrastructure challenges, standards, and vitality of value networks.

Verna Allee lives in Martinez, California, USA.

Books

* 1997: "The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence." Butterworth-Heinemann Business Books. ISBN 0-75069-842-X, ISBN 978-0750698429.
* 2002: "The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity Through Value Networks." Butterworth-Heinemann Business Books. ISBN 0-75067-591-8, ISBN 978-0750675918.
* 2003/4: "What is True Wealth & How Do We Create It?" Verna Allee and Dinesh Chandra, eds. New Delhi: Indigo Press. ISBN 81-85160-04-X.

References

External links

* [http://www.vernaallee.com/ Verna Allee website.]
* [http://www.ikmagazine.com/xq/asp/txtSearch.Collaborative+tools/exactphrase.1/sid.0/articleid.2256E0B1-E464-481D-93A1-35EA5A3E1297/qx/display.htm Inside Knowledge Magazine.]
* [http://www.worldbusiness.org/about/academy-fellows/verna-allee/ World Business Academy website.]