The above network, the Federal Governance Structure, maps US Executive Branch governance as an interdependent system of requirements, connected by legal and policy mandates.
The purpose of the IVN project is to represent Federal governance (laws, policies, rules, goals and metrics), as an interdependent network of requirements, connected by mandates from policies and laws. The intent is to increase situational awareness about the structure of Federal requirements, improve command and control, discover unknown stakeholders, and improve visibility into the supply and demand across requirements to deliver results.
IVNs support changes to budgets, staff, operations, plans, policy, legislation and programs. Multiple Federal agencies are acting on their IVNs and realizing benefits. IVN networks provide a shared, simple design to facilitate systemic change, mitigate competing priorities, align incentives, find and build consensus, build more useful performance metrics, and set mission and vision.
IVN products include responses to Congressional and White House inquiries, regulatory change, new offices, strategic plans, Federal policies, new operations, Presidential transition guidance, and legislative proposals.
Long-term vision includes working with OMB to explore integrating the President's Management Agenda, Executive Orders and Agency Priority Goals with Agency strategic plan objectives, directives and performance measures. This integration would enable a network connecting POTUS priorities, strategies, offices, operations, performance measures, policies and Public Laws across the Executive Branch.
Academic publications by the IVN Team
- White, B., Martin, B., & Wold, R. (2021). The Integrated Value Model (IVM): A Relational Data Model of Business Value. In: Using Strategy Analytics to Measure Corporate Performance and Business Value Creation. Sample at https://bit.ly/3sMsLV2
- Poster presentation at the 2021 Information Architecture Conference - https://www.ryanwold.net/entries/ivm-poster-iac21
Industry articles from the IVN Team
- Can Neural Networks Inform Policy Development? - https://apolitical.co/solution-articles/en/can-neural-networks-inform-policy-development
- How to connect the dots between work and the organization's mission - https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/how-to-connect-dots-between-work-and-organisations-mission
- Not meeting your goals? Use a value network - https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/not-meeting-your-goals-use-a-value-network
- How to generate insightful data connections - https://apolitical.co/solution-articles/en/how-to-generate-insightful-data-connections
- Visualizing the US Legal Code - https://sunlightfoundation.com/2010/06/28/olympics-coleslaw
Related articles about integrated value and value networks
- Wikipedia article about value networks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_network
- Porter, Michael E. “What is Strategy? For starters, it’s not the same as operational effectiveness,” Harvard Business Review, 1996 – https://hbr.org/1996/11/what-is-strategy
- Designing Interactive Strategy, Richard Normann and Rafael Ramírez, Harvard Business Review, July–August 1993 - https://hbr.org/1993/07/designing-interactive-strategy
- Integrated Value: What It Is, What It Is Not, And Why It's Important (HuffPo) - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/integrated-value-what-it-is-what-its-not-and-why_b_59cffdc3e4b0f58902e5ccbf
- Integrated Value: The Aspirational Goal of Purpose-Inspired Organizations (Antwerp Management School) - https://blog.antwerpmanagementschool.be/en/integrated-value-purpose-inspired-organizations
Joining forces to create value: The emergence of an innovation ecosystem, Pushpananthan, G., Elmquist, M. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497221002340?via%3Dihub
Explaining the attacker's advantage: Technological paradigms, organizational dynamics, and the value network, C. Christensen, R. Rosenbloom, Research Policy, Volume 24, Issue 2, March 1995, Pages 233-257. https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-7333(93)00764-K
2002: The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity Through Value Networks. Verna Allee. ISBN 0-7506-7591-8, ISBN 978-0-7506-7591-8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7506-7591-8
Additional References related to mapping complexity
- Value Streams have a history in "Lean" process engineering
- Concept Maps - https://cmap.ihmc.us/docs/constructingaconceptmap.php
- (Simon) Wardley and Wardley Mapping - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IW9L1uNMCs - As a Strategist, Simon has spawned a small, niche industry and community based on his mapping technique. He also offers behavioral guidance that goes beyond the map, to "what do you do based on the map" - Doctrine and Gameplay.
- Graph Theory
Browse the IVN network diagram
Because the IVN depicts policy products as nodes of an information network, that network can be depicted as a network diagram. Browse the IVM network diagram in Flourish Studio - https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/649409
Watch the IVN videos
A series of short YouTube videos - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMYMbTJRc5W4G1YyxgISpwb20o8Hpb4S4
Connect with us!
Join the IVN LinkedIn group at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13929142/ to book a one-on-one demo, start your own dataset, or join our research team.