Verna Allee
Encyclopedia
Verna Allee, born 1949 in Kansas
, United States
, is an American business consultant
and writer on topics including value network
s, 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 CEO of Value Networks LLC. She lives in Martinez, California, USA.
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, is an American business consultant
Management consulting
Management consulting indicates both the industry and practice of helping organizations improve their performance primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and development of plans for improvement....
and writer on topics including value network
Value network
A value network is a business analysis perspective that describes social and technical resources within and between businesses. The nodes in a value network represent people . The nodes are connected by interactions that represent tangible and intangible deliverables. These deliverables take the...
s, knowledge management
Knowledge management
Knowledge management comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences...
, organizational intelligence
Organizational Intelligence
Organizational Intelligence is the capability of an organization to comprehend and conclude knowledge relevant to its business purpose.* an ability to make sense of complex situations and act effectively...
, intellectual capital
Intellectual capital
The value of an enterprise is made of physical assets, various financial assets and, finally, intangible assets, i.e., intellectual capital . The term intellectual capital conventionally refers to the difference in value between tangible assets and market value. ....
and the value conversion
Value conversion
Value conversion is the act of converting one type of value or financial instrument into another type of negotiable value. In the securities profession the definition of conversion value is very narrowly defined as the positive difference between the market price of a convertible security and the...
of intangibles
Intangibles
The term intangibles is most commonly used to describe things that are recognized but not easily quantified; a common example are economic intangibles which describes something not easily quantified within a given theory of economics...
.
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 CEO of Value Networks LLC. She lives in Martinez, California, USA.
Books
- 1997: The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence. Butterworth-HeinemannButterworth-HeinemannButterworth–Heinemann is a UK-based international publishing company specialized in professional information and learning materials for higher education and professional training, in printed and electronic forms...
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 DelhiNew DelhiNew Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
: Indigo Press. ISBN 81-85160-04-X.