collaborative value engineering
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This is the presentation held by Javier Masini at SAVE International\'s 48 Conference at Reno on June 10th 2008. This slide show is to present the paper introducing the concept of Collaborative Value Engineering (CVE)TRANSCRIPT
COLLABORATIVE VALUE ENGINEERING
Javier Masini, AVSUniversidad Panamericana
Guadalajara, México
The Telectroscope
Paul St George (Author)
Images from the official site athttp://www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/
The Telectroscope
Paul St George (Author)
Interchanging phone numbers
Images taken by the Associated Press
Gadget-Interaction Breakthrough
A GIB is a remarkable interaction among individuals around a certain gadget created intentionally to promote that interaction.
The gadget is created by an individual or group of individuals (not necessarily are those interacting)
The gadget may be a tangible good, an experience, a web page, or even a set of regulated activities that invite some other people to interact
Gadget-Interaction Breakthrough
Some examples Good
An experience
Web page
Regulated activities From http://edition.cnn.comOn june 9th 2008
Clusters
Global markets and technology make sourcing of goods and services easily available from any company around the globe.
Therefore location becomes a hard to sell differentiation
Michael E. Porter presents in his 1998 article “Clusters and the New Economics of Competition” the concept of cluster.
Clusters
Clusters are “geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular field” (Porter 1998).
Clusters
Growing Agave
Non-geographical clusters
Cutting by Jimadores
Clusters
Tequila Express (Tour)
Clusters
Research
Tours to old factories
Clusters
Shows
Museums
Old Haciendas
bars
And also…
Non-geographical clusters
Clusters are “geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular field” (Porter 1998).
This works for Tequila, but…
Can you imagine a Cluster for VM?
Non-geographical clusters
No VEP is expecting one single town (geographically speaking) to be the cluster for VE.
Nevertheless, new technology has made communication among peers very simple and effective, regardless of location.
A Non-Geographical cluster is just a group of interconnected individuals, companies and institutions collaborating in a particular field.
Collaboration
Collaboration is a process in which a group of autonomous stakeholders of an issue domain engage in an interactive process, using shared rules, norms, and structures to act or decide on issues related to that domain (Wood and Gray, 1991).
From continuous improvement to collaborative improvement
Collaborative Improvement is “a purposeful inter-company interactive process that focuses on continuous incremental innovation aimed at enhancing the Extended Manufacturing Enterprise (EME) overall performance” (Cagliano et al., 2005).
It means a transition from intra-firm processes of collaboration into inter-firm processes of collaboration
From continuous improvement to collaborative improvement
ClustersNon-
geographical Clusters
Collaboration
Collaborative improvement
Platform needed
Web 2.0
It is not an upgrade from Web 1.0 Defined as “the Internet transformed into a
social space that embraces all social agents, capable of supplying support and being part of a new communication, knowledge and information society" (Fumero et al, 2007).
The Web becomes a platform
Web 2.0
Web 1.0 is the Static web Webmasters might edit contents Readers just read Changes happened in a slow motion
Web 2.0 is the Social Web Everybody is allowed to broadcast Changes are much more frequent (most times
daily) There are site owners and collaborators
Web 2.0
Some examples of tools for Web 2.0 Blogs (www.blogspot.com) Wikis (www.wikispaces.com) Instant Messaging (Messenger) RSS Feeds Photo sharing (www.flickr.com) Social or professional Networking
(www.linkedin.com or www.myspace.com) Online shared documents and calendars
(docs.google.com)
From continuous improvement to collaborative improvement
ClustersNon-
geographical Clusters
Collaboration
Collaborative improvement
Platform needed
WikiWeb 2.0
Wikis
Wikis are collections of Internet Web based pages that are linked together, and they can be created or edited collaboratively by anyone who has access to them without having to learn HTML -hypertext markup language (Farmer 2006).
The “W-Word”
Wikis are not so popular as some other Web 2.0 Tools
Roszkievwicz claims that "wiki has an identity problem" (Roszkievwicz, 2008) Its technology is available as an open source and
without a strong company-backed marketing effort to tell the wiki story over and over
Wikipedia’s popularity
Wiki’s Trustworthiness
1. Security level. public -everybody can view and edit the pages protected -everyone can view the pages, but
editing is restricted to certain individuals; private -only selected individuals can view and
edit the pages.
2. Wiki software tracks when members visit the wiki and what actions they take.
3. Every version of the page is saved
Wiki’s Trustworthiness
4. Dondio and Barret presented a set of ten propositions stating that trustfulness increases if an article…
1. was written by expert and identifiable authors2. has similar features or it is complaint to a
standard in its category3. there is a clear leadership/direction in the
group directing the editing processes and acting as a reference
4. there is no dictatorship effect, that means that most of the editing reflects one person’s view.
Wiki’s Trustworthiness
4. Dondio and Barret presented a set of ten propositions stating that trustfulness increases if an article…
5. the fragmentation of the contributions is limited: there is more cohesion than dissonance among authors
6. has good balance among its sections, the right degree of details, it contains images if needed, it has a varied sentence structure, rhythm and length.
7. it is constantly visited and reviewed by authors.
Wiki’s Trustworthiness
4. Dondio and Barret presented a set of ten propositions stating that trustfulness increases if an article…
8. is stable9. uses a neutral point of view10. the article is well referenced
From continuous improvement to collaborative improvement
ClustersNon-
geographical Clusters
Collaboration
Collaborative improvement
Platform needed
Wiki’s Trustworthiness
WikiWeb 2.0
GIBs
Collaborative Value Engineering CVE is a platform for Value Engineering Practitioners VEP to collaboratively interact on issues related to Value Engineering as well as sharing their individual expertise, in order to enrich VE’s Body of Knowledge while it promotes the use of Value Engineering worldwide.
Web sites (information about CVE) Wikis (Platform fot VE BOK) Support tools available
Email for every member Instant messaging Online Calendar (may sync with Outlook) Online documents, spreadsheets and
Presentations And a set of 200+ gadgets available
Email ( mail.collaborativeve.org)
Calendar ( calendar.collaborativeve.org)
Documents ( docs.collaborativeve.org)
Collaborative platform (wiki)
CVE has the following goals: Enrich Value Engineering Body of
Knowledge Real time networking Promotion of VE world wide and to the
Academia Save time generating ideas Improve VE team performance
CVE’s Quality of content: Constructed with a protected security
level Editing is restricted only to active SAVE
members that apply to get access Promotion of VE is achieved by letting
the world read the site This also fulfils the first and second
prepositions presented by Dondio and Barret on article trustworthiness.
“In order to be considered collaboration, it is key that the process entail an interactive process (relationship over time) and that groups develop shared rules, norms and structures, which often become their first work together” (Kezar, 2005)
www.collaborativeve.org is already available
Formal collaboration is schedule to start by july 28th 2008
Those interested may apply at www.collaborativeve.org (it is free)
Questions?
[email protected]@collaborativeve.org
Javier Masini, AVSUniversidad Panamericana
Guadalajara, México