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																	&lt;font color=&quot;#666666&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Greetings&amp;nbsp;[firstname],&lt;br&gt;
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																	&lt;font color=&quot;#666666&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;One of our best and most interesting VCG use cases was recently delivered by Mr. Charles Boudreau, Enterprise Business Architect at Compassion International, a not for profit Christian Ministry. Chuck joined VCG as an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/membership/&quot;&gt;Individual Member&lt;/a&gt; then took our &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/path-finder/&quot;&gt;Path Finder Program&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;where he learned how to practically apply the Business Process Transformation Framework and VRM at Compassion.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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																	&lt;font color=&quot;#666666&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;In October, Chuck shared his&amp;nbsp;experience at the&amp;nbsp;Business Capabilities Forum and the presentation was so well received VCG asked&amp;nbsp;him to&amp;nbsp;record it. We are now pleased to provide all our constituents with a link to this&amp;nbsp;broadcast:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/Use-Case/Compassion-International/&quot;&gt;http://www.value-chain.org/Use-Case/Compassion-International/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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																	&lt;font color=&quot;#666666&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;The Value Chain Group continues to successfully drive business excellence through best practice process design. We provide our constituents with&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 9px&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;the Content, Tools and Methods&amp;nbsp;to help you&amp;nbsp;succeed in Business Process Transformation via the VCG Framework.&amp;nbsp;Want to know more? Ask.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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																	Greetings [firstname], 
																	 
																
																	One of our best and most interesting VCG use cases was recently delivered by Mr. Charles Boudreau, Enterprise Business Architect at Compassion International, a not for profit Christian Ministry. Chuck joined VCG as an Individual Member then took our Path Finder Program where he learned how to practically apply the Business Process Transformation Framework and VRM at Compassion. 
																
																	In October, Chuck shared his experience at the Business Capabilities Forum and the presentation was so well received VCG asked him to record it. We are now pleased to provide all our constituents with a link to this broadcast: http://www.value-chain.org/Use-Case/Compassion-International/. 
																
																	This is a great story not only because of the VRM implementation and Framework extension at Compassion, but because of the organization and its mission. Please feel free to forward this to others. 
																 
																	Here are key facts of the project:
																
																
																	 
																 
																	
																	The Value Chain Group continues to successfully drive business excellence through best practice process design. We provide our constituents with the Content, Tools and Methods to help you succeed in Business Process Transformation via the VCG Framework. Want to know more? Ask.
																	
																		Regards, 
																
																 
																	 
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																	&lt;font color=&quot;#666666&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#666666&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;One of our best and most interesting VCG use cases was recently delivered by Mr. Charles Boudreau, Enterprise Business Architect at Compassion International, a not for profit Christian Ministry. Chuck joined VCG as an &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/membership/&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#810081&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Individual Member&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt; then took our &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/path-finder/&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#810081&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Path Finder Program&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;where he learned how to practically apply the Business Process Transformation Framework and VRM at Compassion.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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																	&lt;font color=&quot;#666666&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#666666&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;In October, Chuck shared his&amp;nbsp;experience at the&amp;nbsp;Business Capabilities Forum and the presentation was so well received VCG asked&amp;nbsp;him to&amp;nbsp;record it. We are now pleased to provide all our constituents with a link to this&amp;nbsp;broadcast:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/Use-Case/Compassion-International/&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#810081&quot;&gt;http://www.value-chain.org/Use-Case/Compassion-International/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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																	&lt;font color=&quot;#666666&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#666666&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;This is a great story not only because of the VRM implementation and Framework extension at Compassion, but because of the organization and its mission. Please feel free to forward this to others.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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																		&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 9px&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;The Value Chain Group continues to successfully drive business excellence through best practice process design. We provide our constituents with&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 9px&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;the Content, Tools and Methods&amp;nbsp;to help you&amp;nbsp;succeed in Business Process Transformation via the VCG Framework.&amp;nbsp;Want to know more? Ask.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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																	One of our best and most interesting VCG use cases was recently delivered by Mr. Charles Boudreau, Enterprise Business Architect at Compassion International, a not for profit Christian Ministry. Chuck joined VCG as an Individual Member then took our Path Finder Program where he learned how to practically apply the Business Process Transformation Framework and VRM at Compassion. 
																
																	In October, Chuck shared his experience at the Business Capabilities Forum and the presentation was so well received VCG asked him to record it. We are now pleased to provide all our constituents with a link to this broadcast: http://www.value-chain.org/Use-Case/Compassion-International/. 
																
																	This is a great story not only because of the VRM implementation and Framework extension at Compassion, but because of the organization and its mission. Please feel free to forward this to others. 
																 
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																		The Value Chain Group continues to successfully drive business excellence through best practice process design. We provide our constituents with the Content, Tools and Methods to help you succeed in Business Process Transformation via the VCG Framework. Want to know more? Ask. 
																	
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			<author>Scott Palmer - noemail@value-chain.org</author>
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			<title>BUSINESS ENGINEERING BUILDING BLOCK</title>
			<description>&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot; face=&quot;TimesNewRoman,Italic&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot; face=&quot;TimesNewRoman,Italic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;In order to utilize the contemporary advanced technology, business processes need sound software support. With respect to this, one frequent cause of software project failure is the mismatch between the business requirements and the actual functionality of the delivered software application. To solve this problem, it is necessary to build software stemming out from a business process model. Aiming at aligning business process modeling and software design in a component-based way, the proposed research investigates the identification of generic business engineering building blocks and their use for building ICT applications which effectively support business processes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.9.8591&amp;amp;rep=rep1&amp;amp;type=pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click here for the&amp;nbsp;.pdf of the entire&amp;nbsp;article&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt; 
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			<itunes:summary>In order to utilize the contemporary advanced technology, business processes need sound software support. With respect to this, one frequent cause of software project failure is the mismatch between the business requirements and the actual functionality of the delivered software application. To solve this problem, it is necessary to build software stemming out from a business process model. Aiming at aligning business process modeling and software design in a component-based way, the proposed research investigates the identification of generic business engineering building blocks and their use for building ICT applications which effectively support business processes. Click here for the .pdf of the entire article.</itunes:summary>
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			<title>How to become a Member of the Board of Directors?</title>
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&lt;div&gt;How to become a Member of the Board of Directors?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;This is a pertinent question for many ambitious people across the world.&amp;nbsp; Yet few find the right answer and much less use that valuable information to become a Board Member.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;If the real goal of asking this question is not to become a board member then any time spent on the question is purely academic in nature.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Moreover, if somebody simply wants to attend a board of directors meeting then that is a separate discussion.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Here I am putting my perspective on becoming a board member.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Continued on my blog:&lt;/div&gt;
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 How to become a Member of the Board of Directors?
  
 This is a pertinent question for many ambitious people across the world.  Yet few find the right answer and much less use that valuable information to become a Board Member.
  
 If the real goal of asking this question is not to become a board member then any time spent on the question is purely academic in nature.
  
 Moreover, if somebody simply wants to attend a board of directors meeting then that is a separate discussion.
  
 Here I am putting my perspective on becoming a board member.
  
 Continued on my blog:
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			<title>Design Thinking: How to Nurture Future Leaders</title>
			<description>&lt;div style=&quot;color: red&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #800000&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #800000&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Design thinking brings creative techniques to business. The only problem? No one can agree on how to teach its methods.&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;It's a scary time to be a new graduate. But some seem more optimistic than others. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Around the world, graduates are emerging from interdisciplinary master's programs that integrate &lt;a href=&quot;http://bx.businessweek.com/product-design/&quot; rel=&quot;topic&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot;&gt;design&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, technology, and business. These professionals are trained in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bx.businessweek.com/design-thinking/&quot; rel=&quot;topic&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot;&gt;design thinking&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&quot; Sure, it's the latest trendy term to sweep the business world, but it's a technique that designers and executives alike hope may help to provide a solution to some of the world's serious challenges. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/sep2009/id20090930_806435.htm?chan=innovation_special+report+--+design+thinking_special+report+--+design+thinking&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Read more.....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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			<itunes:subtitle>Design Thinking: How to Nurture Future Leaders</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>Design thinking brings creative techniques to business. The only problem? No one can agree on how to teach its methods. 

 
It's a scary time to be a new graduate. But some seem more optimistic than others.  
Around the world, graduates are emerging from interdisciplinary master's programs that integrate design, technology, and business. These professionals are trained in &quot;design thinking.&quot; Sure, it's the latest trendy term to sweep the business world, but it's a technique that designers and executives alike hope may help to provide a solution to some of the world's serious challenges. Read more..... 


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			<author>Scott Palmer - noemail@value-chain.org</author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Cloud Computing and the Promise of On-Demand Business Innovation</title>
			<description>&lt;h3 class=&quot;channelNav&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial&quot;&gt;The wow isn't just about technology; it's about process flexibility and reuse that will enable enterprises to quickly serve new customers and launch new lines of business.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
By &lt;span class=&quot;hpBlogAuthor&quot;&gt;Peter Fingar&lt;/span&gt;
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Peter Fingar&lt;/div&gt;
We are witnessing a seismic shift in information technology, the kind that comes around every decade or so, and it will have a huge impact on business -- especially in today's economy.
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&lt;div&gt;First things first: What the hell is Cloud Computing? Definitions and opinions of cloud computing abound. At one point Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, declared it to be &quot;complete gibberish&quot; and &quot;insane.&quot; &lt;br&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Reasons the enterprise shouldn't adopt cloud computing abound: security, privacy, lack of cost savings, data governance, migration issues, and legal and regulatory issues. Pick your favorite. &lt;br&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218500039 &quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;
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			<itunes:summary>The wow isn't just about technology; it's about process flexibility and reuse that will enable enterprises to quickly serve new customers and launch new lines of business.
By Peter Fingar

 
 
Peter Fingar
We are witnessing a seismic shift in information technology, the kind that comes around every decade or so, and it will have a huge impact on business -- especially in today's economy.
  
 First things first: What the hell is Cloud Computing? Definitions and opinions of cloud computing abound. At one point Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, declared it to be &quot;complete gibberish&quot; and &quot;insane.&quot;  

 Reasons the enterprise shouldn't adopt cloud computing abound: security, privacy, lack of cost savings, data governance, migration issues, and legal and regulatory issues. Pick your favorite.  

 
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			<author>Scott Palmer - noemail@value-chain.org</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Survey Finds BPM Projects Lack Architecture</title>
			<description>&lt;h3 id=&quot;ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_ctl01_MainHeading&quot; class=&quot;title&quot;&gt;By &lt;a href=&quot;http://adtmag.com/forms/emailtoauthor.aspx?AuthorItem={11376451-1698-4D09-956E-614A348C4E83}&amp;amp;ArticleItem={35D005EF-3F47-449E-9EB9-17C1C2FCDEF5}&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#810081&quot;&gt;Jeffrey Schwartz&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- 07/02/2009&lt;/h3&gt;
Organizations embarking on business process management need to bring in IT architects earlier in the process, according to a report released last week.
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&lt;div&gt;Only 52 percent of organizations classified as leaders have enterprise architecture teams leading their BPM efforts, a Web survey of 135 enterprises, showed. Of those described as followers, only 31 percent had enterprise architects leading the efforts.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://adtmag.com/articles/2009/07/02/survey-finds-bpm-projects-lack-architecture.aspx&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Read more.....&lt;/div&gt;
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			<itunes:subtitle>Survey Finds BPM Projects Lack Architecture</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>By Jeffrey Schwartz - 07/02/2009
Organizations embarking on business process management need to bring in IT architects earlier in the process, according to a report released last week.

 Only 52 percent of organizations classified as leaders have enterprise architecture teams leading their BPM efforts, a Web survey of 135 enterprises, showed. Of those described as followers, only 31 percent had enterprise architects leading the efforts.
  
 
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			<author>Scott Palmer - noemail@value-chain.org</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.value-chain.org/en/art/139/</link>
			<title>Value Chains, Value Streams, Value Nets, and Value Delivery Chains</title>
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&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;by George W. Brown&lt;br&gt;
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The Value Chain Group together with partners have developed approaches and methodologies to support the process of successfully aligning business and IT strategies, architecture, design, execution, monitoring and management of the processes.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'&quot;&gt;But there has still been a considerable amount of discussion about value chains and related concepts like value streams, value nets and related concepts by those involved in business process change.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bptrends.com/publicationfiles/FOUR%2004-009-ART-Value%20Chains-Brown.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read entire article....&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
 
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by George W. Brown 

 
The Value Chain Group together with partners have developed approaches and methodologies to support the process of successfully aligning business and IT strategies, architecture, design, execution, monitoring and management of the processes. But there has still been a considerable amount of discussion about value chains and related concepts like value streams, value nets and related concepts by those involved in business process change. Read entire article....
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			<author>Scott Palmer - noemail@value-chain.org</author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Free VCG - Oliver Wight Webinar</title>
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                                                &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 8pt&quot;&gt;Please join VCG's free webinar presented by Oliver Wight entitled&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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                                                &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #808080&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #808080&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Managing in a Tough Economy: Survive Today and Prepare for the Future&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
                                                &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #3366ff&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #3366ff&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET US (16:00-17:00 GMT) on Thursday 19 March 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
                                                &lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/296458451&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #3366ff&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #3366ff&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Register Here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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                                                &lt;div&gt;This interactive webinar will show participants how to: &lt;/div&gt;
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                                                &lt;p&gt;&#8226;&amp;nbsp;Provide focus on today's business problems while charting strategy for future prosperity.&lt;br&gt;
                                                &#8226;&amp;nbsp;Develop strategic processes that reflect best practices. &lt;br&gt;
                                                &#8226;&amp;nbsp;Communicate in a concise and repeatable way that promotes consensus. &lt;br&gt;
                                                &#8226;&amp;nbsp;Deploy process technologies in the fastest and most efficient way possible. &lt;br&gt;
                                                &#8226;&amp;nbsp;Utilize the VRM containing the Oliver Wight Checklist for Business Excellence that facilitates rapid process documentation, design, and overall implementation.&lt;/p&gt;
                                                &lt;p&gt;We will also:&lt;/p&gt;
                                                &lt;p&gt;&#8226;&amp;nbsp;Demonstrate a fundamental process improvement in Master Scheduling.&lt;br&gt;
                                                &#8226;&amp;nbsp;Show you how VRM has been configured to produce blueprints for ERP systems to enable the delivery of specific, actionable instructions to your enterprise architects.&lt;/p&gt;
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                                                &lt;div&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: underline&quot;&gt;Speakers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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                                                &lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rick Burris&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Oliver Wight Principal&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oliverwight-americas.com/the_team/pdfs/burris.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;more speaker information&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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                                                &lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Roger Brooks&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Oliver Wight Principal&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oliverwight-americas.com/the_team/pdfs/brooks.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;more speaker information&lt;/a&gt;
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                                                &lt;div&gt;About &lt;strong&gt;Oliver Wight&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oliverwight.com&quot;&gt;www.oliverwight.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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                                                &lt;div&gt;Sponsor: &lt;strong&gt;Value Chain Group&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org&quot;&gt;www.value-chain.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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                                                 Please join VCG's free webinar presented by Oliver Wight entitled
                                                
                                                 Managing in a Tough Economy: Survive Today and Prepare for the Future 
                                                 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET US (16:00-17:00 GMT) on Thursday 19 March 2009
                                                Register Here
                                                 
                                                
                                                  
                                                 This interactive webinar will show participants how to: 
                                                 
                                                &#8226; Provide focus on today's business problems while charting strategy for future prosperity. 
                                                &#8226; Develop strategic processes that reflect best practices.  
                                                &#8226; Communicate in a concise and repeatable way that promotes consensus.  
                                                &#8226; Deploy process technologies in the fastest and most efficient way possible.  
                                                &#8226; Utilize the VRM containing the Oliver Wight Checklist for Business Excellence that facilitates rapid process documentation, design, and overall implementation. 
                                                We will also: 
                                                &#8226; Demonstrate a fundamental process improvement in Master Scheduling. 
                                                &#8226; Show you how VRM has been configured to produce blueprints for ERP systems to enable the delivery of specific, actionable instructions to your enterprise architects. 
                                                
                                                 Speakers
                                                  
                                                 Rick Burris   Oliver Wight Principal   more speaker information
                                                  
                                                 Roger Brooks   Oliver Wight Principal   more speaker information
                                                  
                                                 About Oliver Wight    www.oliverwight.com
                                                  
                                                 Sponsor: Value Chain Group   www.value-chain.org
                                                  
                                                
                                                
                                                    
                                                        
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			<link>http://www.value-chain.org/en/art/131/</link>
			<title>Advanced BPM program in Australia next week - discount for Group Membership!</title>
			<description>One day, Certified program led by Global Leader, Steve Towers. Latest Case Studies and innovations - hands-on, practical. Contact details - caroline.smith@icmgworld.com Event locations - Sydney : 24 Nov '08 | Brisbane: 25 Nov '08 | Melbourne : 26 Nov '08 | Perth : 28 Nov '08 |&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;
For more details please visit http://www.BpmTrainingToday.com&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Regards&lt;br&gt;
caroline smith&lt;br&gt;
0390160205&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
 
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;20-Nov-08 2:00 AM
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			<itunes:subtitle>Advanced BPM program in Australia next week - discount for Group Membership!</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>One day, Certified program led by Global Leader, Steve Towers. Latest Case Studies and innovations - hands-on, practical. Contact details - caroline.smith@icmgworld.com Event locations - Sydney : 24 Nov '08 | Brisbane: 25 Nov '08 | Melbourne : 26 Nov '08 | Perth : 28 Nov '08 |  
For more details please visit http://www.BpmTrainingToday.com 
 
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caroline smith 
0390160205 
 
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			<link>http://www.value-chain.org/en/rel/59/</link>
			<title>Fusion-io Uses Framework for Process Design</title>
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		&lt;strong&gt;Pittsburgh 30 March 2011&lt;/strong&gt; - Fusion-io recently organized a steering committee to oversee process transformation of its business&amp;nbsp; processes.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;There was no formal business process management architecture in place so they&amp;nbsp;utilized&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;Value Chain Group&amp;rsquo;s (VCG) Business Process Transformation Framework (BPTF) as the framework for best in class process design in PLM.&amp;nbsp;The reason for&amp;nbsp;this is&amp;nbsp;Fusion-io needed to scale with current processes and systems and they needed&amp;nbsp;tjhe very fast&amp;nbsp; and accurate approach VCG could provide.&lt;/div&gt;
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			VCG&amp;nbsp;produced a well scoped project proposal to provide formal training of BPTF and partnered with Siemens IT Solutions as Subject Matter Experts.&amp;nbsp; VCG recommended a direct project approach to include BPTF Subject Matter Experts for best in class&amp;nbsp; Extensible Reference Models (XRM) for Fusion-io. A core team of cross functional knowledge experts led the effort.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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		Fusion-io&amp;nbsp;and VCG kicked off the&amp;nbsp;project&amp;nbsp;on 11 January. The cross functional team had representatives from operations, engineering, sourcing, manufacturing &amp;amp; planning and also&amp;nbsp; in systems, finance and procurement. The team&amp;nbsp;focused on key Value Streams: Concept to Launch, Plan to Make, Quote to Order, Order to Cash, and Procure to Pay. Fusion-io realized the value of having VCG on hand to help&amp;nbsp;assist in developing a Fusion-io specific business process transformation framework.&lt;/div&gt;
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		Fusion-io realized the best path forward was a single &amp;lsquo;component&amp;rsquo; proposal to provide the necessary on-site training and knowledge transfer for a successful process design project. The many disconnects in the current business process and legacy system architecture had to be resolved.&amp;nbsp; FIO envisions process, technology and system changes as a result of this project.&amp;nbsp; VCG successfully delivered an enterprise-wide business architecture&amp;nbsp; for Fusion-IO. The Transformation Roadmap and Project Charters&amp;nbsp;will be delivered in&amp;nbsp;April. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.value-chain.org/en/rel/52/</link>
			<title>VCG Announces 2009 Board of Directors</title>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 8pt&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PITTSBURGH, 2 February 2009&lt;/strong&gt; The Value Chain Group, Inc&#8217;s 2009 Board of Directors convened for the first time in January to nominate and approve its leadership. Carrie Sutherland, Manager, Program Management, AMD, accepted the Chairmanship and Michael Uram, EDS Americas Manufacturing Marketing Manager, HP/EDS, accepted the Vice-Chairmanship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 8pt&quot;&gt;&#8220;I am excited about the year ahead and I look forward to fully supporting the VCG&#8217;s initiatives,&#8221; said Ms Sutherland. &#8220;We have successfully used the VCG Framework at AMD to achieve desired results quickly. We endorse theValue Chain Group&#8217;s proven methodology for best-in-class business process management.&#8221; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 8pt&quot;&gt;The 2009 Board of Directors:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;- Chair Carrie Sutherland, Manager, Program Management, AMD&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;- Vice-Chair Michael Uram, EDS Americas Manufacturing Marketing Manager, HP/EDS&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;- Dennis Groves, Chairman, Oliver Wight&amp;nbsp;Americas&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;- Henk de Man, Research Director, Cordys&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;- Mathias Kirchmer, PhD, Executive Partner, Accenture &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
The VCG bylaws call for routine and staggered elections of the Board of Directors. Members are asked to accept a slate proposed by the outgoing Board. Once the Board is approved, they convene a meeting to determine leadership for the year. &lt;br&gt;
The VCG Board of Directors establishes strategic goals in support of the organization&#8217;s mission and vision.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 8pt&quot;&gt;The Value Chain Group, Inc (VCG) is a public not-for-profit, global business consortium with membership open to corporations, academia, research institutions and governmental offices. The VCG offers an open source extensible business process framework and a proven methodology for the establishment of business architectures encompassing best-in-class business process management, metrology and IT blueprinting. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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			<title>VCG Executive Briefing Speakers Support Vision of the BPTF</title>
			<description> PRESS RELEASE &#8211; Pittsburgh, PA &#8211; June 19, 2008    The Value Chain Group held an Executive Briefing June 17, 2008 in Putten, The Netherlands, at Kasteel De Vanenburg next to the headquarters of Cordys, the event&#8217;s co-sponsor. Over 50 attendees gathered at the Kasteel de Vanenburg to hear presentations on how technology, methods and practice support the Business Process Transformation Framework (BPTF).     Jan Baan, Founder &amp; Chairman of Cordys, gave the keynote, which addressed the BPTF&#8217;s role in executing his company&#8217;s Business Operations Platform (BOP), a merger of value stream packaged methodology and Business Process Management Suite technology based on a Service Oriented Architecture grid.    Cordys strategically cooperates with Value Chain Group (VCG) and Value Chain Associates (VCA) to execute on the BOP vision. The BPTF addresses the essential elements of Lean Transformation (value stream mapping) and Six Sigma projects (SIPOC, DMAIC). Specific Lean Techniques (pull, flow) and...
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			<title>Metastorm Introduces New Reference Model Based on VCG Framework </title>
			<description> Implementation-ready Framework Helps Organizations Develop Competitive Value Chains with Highly-integrated Business Processes     BALTIMORE, MD &#8211; March 26, 2008 &#8211; Metastorm, a leading provider of Business  Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced the availability of the Metastorm Value Reference Model (VRM). The Metastorm VRM is implemented using the Metastorm ProVision&#174; enterprise modeling solution and helps organizations develop unique, competitive value chains composed of highly integrated business processes that cut across corporate and functional boundaries and are better aligned with corporate strategy.Built on the foundation of the VRM developed by the Value Chain Group, Inc. (VCG) - an independent, not-for-profit global organization - the Metastorm VRM provides capabilities to improve business operations required for the design, manufacture, delivery, and support...
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			<title>SOA Information Model Publicly Available</title>
			<description> PRESS RELEASE &#8211; January 17, 2008 Pittsburgh, PA The Value Chain Group, Inc (VCG) is pleased to announce that Semantion, author of the VCG SOA Information Model (SOA-IM) specification, is providing the SOA-IM to the VCG as a publicly available open source document. Semantion, the creator of the SOA Information Model (SOA-IM) and SOA Virtual Machine (SOA-VM), is the first vendor to offer a business process semantics-based SOA architectural framework.  The SOA-IM is a specification based on the Federated Enterprise Reference Architecture (FERA). SOA-IM enables executable process definition in a service-oriented information exchange environment. SOA-IM defines all entities and their associations required to represent any collaborative process of any complexity involving people and information systems in both synchronous and asynchronous information processing mode.  Goran Zugic, CTO of Semantion, is the co-author of the SOA-IM specification. As SOA-IM knowledge expert, Goran assumes the...
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			<title>IDS Scheer Adopts Value Reference Model (VRM) for Enterprise-Wide Support Using ARIS Platform</title>
			<description>  BERLIN (June 13, 2007) &#8211; IDS Scheer, the leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), today announced at ARIS ProcessWorld 2007 Europe that the ARIS Platform now fully supports the Value Reference Model (VRM). VRM (formerly VCOR), developed by the Value Chain Group (VCG), has been used by practitioners for over three years to help identify and improve the full spectrum of business operations required for the design, manufacture, delivery and support of products. This reference model accelerates business improvements by providing a validated reference set of measurements, processes and best practices.  &#8220;We are pleased that IDS Scheer recognizes the importance of VRM and the potential to drive the value chains for its ARIS Platform global customer base,&#8221; said Scott Palmer, CEO, Value Chain Group. &#8220;We look forward to working in tandem with IDS Scheer to support the widespread adoption of VRM.&#8221;  The Value Chain Group, Inc. is an independent,...
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			<title>VCG Announces New Model Name</title>
			<description>  PRESS RELEASE &#8211; April 12, 2007 Pittsburgh, PA    The Value Chain Group, Inc (VCG). announces plans to change the name of the Value Chain Operation Reference (VCOR) model to Value Reference Model (VRM).    The Value Reference Model (formerly VCOR) has been used by practitioners for over three years to help them identify and improve the full spectrum of business operations required for the design, manufacture, delivery, and support of products. It accelerates business improvements by providing a validated reference set of measurements, processes, and practice.    Unlike other reference models, VRM fully integrates all critical business operations in a single framework and is available to the public as resource that does not require an association membership, said VCG CEO Scott Palmer. We are excited by what we have accomplished with VRM and the direction we are going. Over the last two years, our members and representatives of the Supply-Chain Council have indicated that the...
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			<title>PRESS RELEASE  March 7, 2007 Pittsburgh, PA Chief Model Architect Announced</title>
			<description>  The Value Chain Group, Inc. is pleased to announce George W. Brown will be assuming the role of Chief Model Architect (CMA).    As CMA George will be active in technical development, model management and model change control. Model work may entail research initiatives, model validation projects, detailing requirements for methodology, technical discussion and creation of white papers.    The CMA will define model and methodology goals, approaches, and project opportunities to be carried out through collaboration within the membership and with partnering companies and synergistic associations.    &#8220;Considerable communication and collaboration including solicitation of new participants in the development and continued improvement of VCG frameworks are my top priorities,&#8221; said Mr. Brown.    Until recently, George had worked for Intel since 1994 as a Senior Program Manager within the IT Research. He collaborated with the senior management of Intel business units and...
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			<title>Value Chain Reference Model version 2.0 Available</title>
			<description>Pittsburgh, PA, October 12, 2006 - The Value Chain Group, Inc announces the release of the Value Chain Operations Reference model Version 2.0. This effort is the culmination of many months of work led by Chief Model Architect Tom Mercer and VCG members who participated in the Model Change Committee.  Model Improvements  Version 2 of the VCOR has added additional Level 2 processes of Plan/Govern Information and Finance. This links the needs of Financial and Information processes to performance and execution of the extend network through inputs, outputs, and metrics. learn more          More detail about Version 2.0 can be found here: VCOR Version 2 Release. Members of the Value Chain Group are encouraged to download Version 2.0 by clicking here: Downloads - Members Only.      The Value Chain Group, Inc. (VCG) is an independent, not-for-profit, global organization with membership open to corporations, academia, research institutions and governmental offices. VCG has three Chapters being...
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			<title>VCG Position Statement</title>
			<description>   PITTSBURGH, September 1, 2006 The Value Chain Group Position Statement           The formation of the Value Chain Group (VCG) was driven by the need for a holistic view of business processes across operations, product development, and customer facing domains of an enterprise. VCG calls this framework VCOR. Because this integrated framework covers supply chain processes some may be confused with respect to the relationship of the VCG reference model (VCOR) and the Supply Chain Council (SCC) reference model (SCOR). To clarify any questions, the VCG Board of Directors emphasizes that the VCG and the SCC operate as two independent, not-for-profit organizations separate from one another. The VCG and the SCC have independently developed distinctive reference models, architecture, tools, and methodology that have major differences in scope, scale, structure, and detail.  About the Value Chain Group   The Value Chain Group, Inc. (VCG) is an independent, not-for-profit, global organization...
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>BPTF Community</title>
			<description>  	  		VCG's Business Process Transformation Framework (BPTF) provides an integrated environment for managing complex transformations based on advanced technologies and best practices that go with them. With our member companies, we constantly assess and collect best practices for managing manufacturing value chain, including unique and innovative uses of technologies in all areas - from strategic planning, innovative product development to field delivered customer services. We capture, define and share best practices within the process reference model that allows for non-proprietary application of best practices to all of our members, what addresses an increasingly voiced concern of being locked into a particular view of the world. 	  		  	  		For us, there are two basic conditions to publish best practice material and expose it to our members. First and foremost is that the contributing company decides to share their achievements with others. In this category, we have captured and...

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			<title>ValueLink - Brand Equity Pyramid</title>
			<description>  	You have arrived at a Value Chain Group Content Page. This is one of hundreds of ValueLinks found in the Value Reference Model. To learn more about the VRM and to see all our publicly available material, look under VCG Framework.   	    	The Value Chain Group invites you to register as a site user so you may gain insight into our Value Chain Framework and Methodology. Please follow this link - http://www.value-chain.org/en/users/selfadd.asp. All confirmed site users receive our Business Process Transformation Framework (BPTF) White Paper.   	    	  	  	A standard tool for understanding a brand's associations to customers' response. The strongest brands exhibit both duality (emotional and functional associations) and richness (a variety of brand associations or equity at every level, from salience to resonance).  	  	   	Links   	Strategic Brand Management - Soni Simpson Adjunct Professor, Stuart School of Business   	   ...

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			<title>Business Process Library - Public</title>
			<description>  	 		 			  				 					 						  							  								This is the Value Chain Group&#39;s Public Library. The VCG provides this material in order to promote Value Chain Thinking and Process Design Excellence. There is more content available to our Member Subscribers via the Members Library. This includes full access to the Framework and Business Process Reference Dictionaries plus all suporting material and detailed use case examples.  							  								  							  								You may view the list of active Member Library content below.  							  								  							 								PUBLIC LIBRARY  							 								Glossary  							 								VCG Glossary of Terms - Download PDF File.  							 								 									Value Reference Model 2.2 - Full Archive of the Model and Glossaries  							 							 								VRM 2.2 Download - http://www.value-chain.org/framework/vrm-v2-2/  						 					 				 				 					 						  							 								 									Brand  								  									 Brand Equity Pyramid  								 									   								...

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			<title>Value Chain Configuration - Order to Cash</title>
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	The Order to Cash (O2C) value chain configuration encompasses the processes from customer sales&amp;nbsp;orders via different sales channels, such as email, internet, sales person, fax or by some other means and then fulfilling the order.&lt;/div&gt;


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			<title>Value Chain Configuration - Market to Lead</title>
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	This value chain configuration encompasses those customer facing business processess from the marketing of a product or service to the sales lead.&lt;/div&gt;
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			<title>About the Value Chain Group</title>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;
	&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body_copy&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Verdana&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;The Value Chain Group Business Process Transformation Framework (BPTF)&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;span class=&quot;body_copy&quot;&gt;The VCG Business Process Transformation Framework provides robust reference dictionaries and methods that are&amp;nbsp;proven for the extended enterprise value network. The standard framework promotes consensus and helps drive continuous improvement and transformation of processes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;span class=&quot;body_copy&quot;&gt;The integrated process framework guides the modeling, design, and measurement of business performance by uniquely encompassing the plan, govern, and execute requirements for the design, product, and customer aspects of business. We believe in consensus-driven and non-proprietary, open source standards and seek the diversity of ideas provided by our constituents and partners as we share value network perspectives, strategies and best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;span class=&quot;body_copy&quot;&gt;The VCG is dedicated to bringing awareness to C-Level executives on the challenges, benefits, costs, and return on investment of the BPTF.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;span class=&quot;body_copy&quot;&gt;Key to this strategy is identifying the internal champions and working with these people to influence upper management on the benefits. Business Architects, Business Process Managers, Development Managers, Enterprise Architects, IT Managers and Internal Business Analysts are key change agents.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;span class=&quot;body_copy&quot;&gt;To see a Framework Comparison &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/framework-comparison/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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			<title>Path Finder Program - Agenda</title>
			<description>  	  		  		 			 				 					 						 							 								 									 										  											  										  											 										  											  										  											Practical Application of Process Design -We provide 7 interactive sessions to include actual business use case material as the subject. Company specific and proprietary information may be used pending NDA. 										  											  										 											 												 													 														  															Session 1 - Introduction to the Business Process Transformation Framework (2 hrs) 													 												 												 													 														 															Part 													 													 														  															Topic 													 													 														  															Description  													 												 												 													 														 															1.1 													 													 														  															Standard Building Blocks 													 													 														 ...

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			<description>  	     	 		Atos is an international information technology services company with annual 2010 pro forma revenues of EUR 8.6 billion and 74,000 employees in 42 countries. Serving a global client base, it delivers hi-tech transactional services, consulting and technology services, systems integration and managed services. With its deep technology expertise and industry knowledge, it works with clients across the following market sectors: Manufacturing, Retail, Services; Public, Health &amp; Transport; Financial Services; Telecoms, Media &amp; Technology; Energy &amp; Utilities.  	  	 	 		Atos is focused on business technology that powers progress and helps organizations to create their firm of the future. It is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games and is quoted on the Paris Eurolist Market. Atos operates under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting and Technology Services, Atos Worldline and Atos Worldgrid.    	 	 		  	 		Oliver Wight has developed a methodology to help...

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	The Value Chain Group is pleased to provide the following response to Dell&#39;s RFP dated 31 October 2011. All requested material is available via the links below. The VCG looks forward to working with Dell on the Market &amp;amp; Sell&amp;nbsp;Process Center of Excellence. Links to relevant documents are below and the documents are also listed at the bottom of this page.&lt;/div&gt;
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	This link opens VCG&#39;s Cover Letter -&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/attachments/contentmanagers/6564/111811_Dell-RFP_Cover-Letter_vcg.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cover Letter 11-18-2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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	This link opens VCGs&amp;nbsp;RFP-SOW Response -&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/attachments/contentmanagers/6564/111811_Dell-RFP_SOW_vcg.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;RFP-SOW 11-18-2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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	This link opens VCG&#39;s Proposal Presentation - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/attachments/contentmanagers/6564/111811_Dell-Proposal_vcg.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Proposal 11-18-2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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		&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/attachments/contentmanagers/6564/Atos_CV_Renee-Driscoll.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Renee Driscoll&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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		&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/attachments/contentmanagers/6564/Atos_CV_Paul-Iannello.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Paul Iannello&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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		&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/attachments/contentmanagers/6564/Atos_CV_Kevin-Playforth.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Kevin Playforth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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		&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/attachments/contentmanagers/6564/Atos_CV_Darcie-Brand.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Darcie Brand&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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		&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/attachments/contentmanagers/6564/Atos_CV_Chris-Westbrook.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Chris Westbrook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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		&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.value-chain.org/attachments/contentmanagers/6564/Atos_CV_Cheryl-Larkin.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cheryl Larkin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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			<link>http://www.value-chain.org/en/sur/?6</link>
			<title>Best Practice Survey</title>
			<description>Objectives: &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 8pt&quot;&gt;The Value Chain Group&#8217;s mission is to be the primary resource for identifying and enabling performance improvements, process changes and business agility in all domains across the value chain. To that end, we are committed to providing the resources our constituents may need to identify quantify and realize process improvement across the extended enterprise. &lt;br&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;
We ask you to complete this brief VCG Survey so that we may gain more insight into the business issues that exist today and to identify subject matter experts who can help us to resolve these issues&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Release Date: 21-May-09 9:00 AM&lt;br&gt;Expiration Date: 19-Aug-09 9:00 AM&lt;br&gt;</description>
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			<author>noemail@value-chain.org</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<category>Survey</category>
			<link>http://www.value-chain.org/en/sur/?3</link>
			<title>Research Proposals</title>
			<description>Objectives: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Release Date: 15-Aug-05 5:00 PM&lt;br&gt;Expiration Date: 13-Nov-05 5:00 PM&lt;br&gt;</description>
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			<author>noemail@value-chain.org</author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<category>Survey</category>
			<link>http://www.value-chain.org/en/sur/?2</link>
			<title>Test</title>
			<description>Objectives: test goal&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Release Date: 12-Aug-05 11:00 AM&lt;br&gt;Expiration Date: 10-Nov-05 11:00 AM&lt;br&gt;test introductionj</description>
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			<author>noemail@value-chain.org</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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