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Jonathan Oppenheimer

Jonathan Oppenheimer is interested in developing a framework to encourage healthy people on a healthy planet.

Burgess COMMENTARY
The idea is fine ... but in my view without the appropriate metrics it will be very difficult if not impossible to build anything that is sustainable. The health sector is one of the areas where it should be possible to have a very high level of valuadd and where the money profit metric tends to drive increases in prices without necessarily getting the best outcomes.
Peter Burgess

Q. What products or services can we provide to help you contribute to our common goal of developing healthy people on a healthy planet?

A. The 'science' of health has progressed amazingly in the past 50 years, but the 'business model' is very similar to what it was long ago.

Q. How can you contribute to the PathOrganism today?

A. The 'value' proposition of 'health' is obvious, but not quantified. Money transactions are accounted for, but the bigger value transactions are not. This must change.

Q. Additional Comments or Questions

A. The system of TrueValueMetrics ... Value Accountancy ... is an emerging methodology that makes value transactions as important as money transactions. It uses the basic double entry accounting framework to make it possible to relate 'state, 'progress' and 'performance' in a way that is cost effective, easy and meaningful.

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I appreciate Mark referring you to me. I hope I can be helpful.

I filled in your inquiry form without going into very much detail. I will happily share with you as much detail as you need.

As a former corporate CFO I am well aware of the power of profit in the decision making process and especially the allocation of investment resources. This is optimum for the business owners and investors, but every other stakeholder is compromised.

TrueValueMetrics (TVM) uses the same concept of 'double entry' and the integration of balance sheet and operating statement (profit and loss) that is used in money profit accountancy, but uses value flows as well as money flows.

TVM uses an 'economic activity' as the basic accounting and reporting module. An economic activity contributes to both the operating organization and to the hosting community at the same time.

A sustainable society is achieved when there is money profit and social valuadd in the community AND money profit and social valuadd in the operating organization.

As you well know ... the devil is in the detail. But it can also be argued that a better understanding of the detail, and all sorts of problems and issues go away. In my view, the TVM approach enables simplification with being simplistic.

http://truevaluemetrics.org is a substantial repository of my thinking ... but unfortunately not yet a working platform for TVM.

What might I do to help? What might be a starting point?

Peter
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On 2/2/13 7:02 AM, Jonathan Oppenheimer wrote:
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I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.
Met Mark Roest at a mobile Health meeting in Bay Area. Talked about community accountancy, transparency, and he gave me your name. I'm working on a 1500 acre sustainable community in TN and am looking for ideas on financial sustainability.
- Jonathan Oppenheimer
http://www.pathapps.com/PathAppsPortal/PathOrganism.html