Why Ventana® Models Work

Smart choices come from solid understanding and clear communication of which actions will improve performance and why. Four qualities of Ventana models combine to yield better performance through smart choices:

• Alignment: Ventana models are focused on client choices and client performance. Inputs include all the organization's options for action, and the outputs describe outcomes by the organization's measures of success. The models are built through a responsive, flexible process to align the model with the organization's decision needs.

• Reliability: Ventana models are industrial-strength and robust, to help clients consistently choose actions that maximize the odds of success -- even in conditions never before encountered.

• Persuasiveness: Ventana models inspire confidence through demonstrable consistency with expert knowledge; through output that supports compelling, data-supported stories about what will happen and why; through realistic, easily visualized internal mechanics; and through an inclusive development process that earns the trust of the organization.

• Organizational Fit: Ventana models fit the way the organization's people spend their time and make decisions, relate to the way they think about their business, and inspire them to use the model to its full advantage.

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Organizational Fit

Ventana models are designed to fit into each client organization's practice and culture. The means of interacting with the model complements existing organizational norms for how people spend their time, manage information, communicate, divide responsibilities, and make decisions. More importantly, Ventana has observed that models deliver their full benefit when they have a personal significance for the people who use them. Contributing knowledge and requirements to the design of a model, then seeing it take shape, inspires people to extend their efforts and ingenuity and use the model to maximum advantage.

The specific requirements for a good fit vary tremendously from organization to organization. Ventana's modeling process recognizes the need for cultural fit, and systematically addresses it from the beginning of the project. The model definition, creation, and review process engages all stakeholders at appropriate levels of intensity, to build ownership in the model across the organization. Ventana also supports a wide range of options for data management, model interface, and training programs, and is experienced in many modes of connecting models to decision-making. (Please see Building Ventana Models and Ventana Modeling Techniques for more information.) From the beginning of the relationship, Ventana helps clients to define their own requirements of organizational fit, and to find the solutions to meet them.