Virtual Enterprise Networks: current best practice in the UK
Andrew Faughy, General Manager and Director of VEN Operations Ltd, gives an excellent video lecture ‘VEN: The Story so Far’ at the ICE Conference (Milan 2006) on the Virtual Enterprise Network concept in practice in Yorkshire in the UK involving nearly 400 small businesses.

Andrew discusses in very practical terms:
- The business and economic imperatives which spawned VENs in Yorkshire
- The Structures and models which can be used for VENs
- How VENs work in different scenarios
- What next for VENs in Yorkshire – a 12-18 month look ahead
To watch the video (38 mins)
For more on VENs see My best collaborative business network articles
Comments
Bioteams Books Reviews
The short message phenomenon challenged
We are bombarded with the idea its good to talk and its good to text. But is texting and other forms of mobile phone interaction a useful form of communication? Or is it even a form of communication at all or something totally different? In a mini-book "Heidegger, Habermas and the mobile phone" the author invokes some key thinkers of the twentieth century to offer an essential alternative to the new doctrine of 'm-communication': Martin Heidegger, who saw humanity as ‘the entity which talks’ and Jürgen Habermas, current-day advocate of authentic communication.
Buy it now from:
Amazon.Com
Amazon.Co.UK







