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Organizations and business webs or networks behave as complex adaptive systems. Yet, many business modeling techniques fail to incorporate systems thinking or address the role of knowledge and intangibles in creating value. Intangibles such as knowledge play three important roles in business: as assets, as currencies, and as deliverables. Reframing enterprises as value networks can reveal both tangible and intangible value creating activities. Value networks are webs of relationships that generate tangible and intangible value through complex dynamic exchanges between two or more individuals, groups, or organizations. A simple technique to model and analyze value networks is demonstrated by examples. These examples illustrate that successful value networks operate on systems principles and an ethic of high integrity and trust.
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Allee, V. (2003). Value Networks and Evolving Business Models for the Knowledge Economy. In: Holsapple, C.W. (eds) Handbook on Knowledge Management. International Handbooks on Information Systems, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24748-7_29
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