Business Interoperability in Healthcare Ecosystems

VEN Group works with Yorkshire Forward to identify potential customers and the opportunities that they can offer to organisations within the region and beyond. VEN provides unique tools and processes for collaborative working, including common IT, legal, financial, commercial and governance frameworks. By working in this way, VEN systems encourage the development of new ideas and projects, allowing members to share the commercial benefits of these. VEN works in collaboration with organisations across Yorkshire and beyond to offer access to new business by breaking down traditional business boundaries.

Organisations join VEN as members so that they can work together with other organisations as a single extended enterprise designed to meet customer needs. This combines their skills and capacities so that they can become greater than the sum of their parts.

All types of organisations can join VEN as members. These include:

• Small and Medium Sizes Enterprises (SMEs) – VEN is a unique solution that allows SMEs access to new work from large customers that they couldn’t access on their own. SMEs can learn how to add 50% to their bottom line in efficiency gains alone.
• Universities and Research Institutions – VEN stimulates innovation by encouraging universities and research institutions to become members alongside companies in order to harness their latest commercial developments alongside businesses.
• Professional Institutes and Business Intermediaries – organisations such as Chambers of Commerce, professional institutes and business incubators can apply to join VEN in order to pass on the benefits of VEN to their members and create their own networks supported by our systems and processes.