Practice Expertise
Areas of Practice
- Knowledge Management
- New Business Model
- Value Networks
Profile
Verna Allee, M.A. (www.vernaallee.com) is recognized worldwide in the fields of value networks, knowledge management, intangibles, communities of practice, and new business models. She is a practitioner, thought leader, author, and frequent keynote speaker. As founder of Verna Allee Associates and Sr. Fellow of Konvergeandknow she consults with a wide variety of organizations—from global corporations and entrepreneurial startups to government agencies, including HP, Motorola, Eli Lilly, and Environment Canada. She helps people develop and implement knowledge strategies, learning communities, nonfinancial scorecards, and new management practices, drawing from living systems theory.
Verna is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and acts as advisor for special projects in intellectual capital and the knowledge economy for the European Commission, Stanford University, the Brookings Institution, multi-organizational task forces, and Digital4Sight. In July 2001 and September of 2003 she was featured in cover articles for knowledge management journals as one of the top people in the knowledge management field. She is on the Advisory Boards of the Collaborative Intelligence Lab at UC Berkeley and the Knowledge Management Institute of George Washington University, and is adjunct faculty member of Alliant International University (California) and Waikato University (New Zealand).
Her publications include The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks (2003) and The Knowledge Evolution (1997), which is a continuing best seller in the knowledge management field. She is co-editor with Dinesh Chandra of What is True Wealth and How Do We Create It? She is the originator of a unique knowledge complexity framework, Knowledge LinksÔ, and is the developer of the HoloMappingÔ and ValueNet WorksÔ tools and methods for understanding complex systems and value creation. Konvergeandknow of Canada publishes the Verna Allee Toolkit™, featuring Web-enabled learning modules and applications for her powerful and innovative methods. (www.alleetoolkit.com)
Verna is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and acts as advisor for special projects in intellectual capital and the knowledge economy for the European Commission, Stanford University, the Brookings Institution, multi-organizational task forces, and Digital4Sight. In July 2001 and September of 2003 she was featured in cover articles for knowledge management journals as one of the top people in the knowledge management field. She is on the Advisory Boards of the Collaborative Intelligence Lab at UC Berkeley and the Knowledge Management Institute of George Washington University, and is adjunct faculty member of Alliant International University (California) and Waikato University (New Zealand).
Her publications include The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks (2003) and The Knowledge Evolution (1997), which is a continuing best seller in the knowledge management field. She is co-editor with Dinesh Chandra of What is True Wealth and How Do We Create It? She is the originator of a unique knowledge complexity framework, Knowledge LinksÔ, and is the developer of the HoloMappingÔ and ValueNet WorksÔ tools and methods for understanding complex systems and value creation. Konvergeandknow of Canada publishes the Verna Allee Toolkit™, featuring Web-enabled learning modules and applications for her powerful and innovative methods. (www.alleetoolkit.com)
Areas of Practice
- Knowledge Management
- New Business Model
- Value Networks
