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The Value Leadership Body of Knowledge™

Edition One · Exposure draft · 2026

The VLBoK™

The structured knowledge that defines Value Leadership as a professional discipline: its foundations, its five disciplines, the architectures that operationalize it, the roles that own it, and the instruments that measure it. Drawn from Value Leadership: The ISEM Guide to Closing Value Leaks and Creating Strategic Advantage.


Relationship to existing standards

A completion of what the profession has always been moving toward.

The VLBoK is designed to sit alongside established project, programme, and portfolio standards, extending them into value realization. The crosswalk below is an orientation aid prepared by the Institute. It does not imply endorsement by any of the bodies named.

StandardPrimary focusWhere the VLBoK extends it
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