“How can I make sure new technology respects our people?”
A common question for worker representatives in times of digital change. As AI and automation transform work, co-determination must keep pace. VBE gives you the tools to raise the right questions – and ensure they lead to real influence.
WHAT YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE
New technologies are introduced quickly – but their impact on people remains unclear.
Digital systems, automation, and AI enter the workplace at high speed.
Management wants to move forward, vendors promise efficiency — yet essential questions often stay unanswered:
What does this mean for workload and stress?
Will the system be fair, transparent, and inclusive?
How will tasks, skills, and responsibilities change?
And how can concerns be raised early enough to influence decisions?
Without a structured process, social and ethical considerations are easily overshadowed by technical priorities. VBE gives worker representatives the tools to surface these issues constructively and make sure they matter.
HOW VBE SUPPORTS YOU
A structured way to make worker voices count in digital change.
As digital systems, automation, and AI reshape work, it is not always clear how social concerns, workload, or fairness can be brought into the conversation in a timely and constructive way. Decisions are often made under time pressure, with technical and business arguments dominating the agenda.
Value-based Engineering (VBE) provides a clear process that helps worker representatives bring these perspectives to the table early – and keep them there throughout design and implementation. It turns questions about impact on people into structured dialogue and concrete requirements that management and technical teams can work with.
Identify ethical and legal risks early — and document how they’re handled
VBE uncovers risks around bias, discrimination, privacy, explainability, and data use before they escalate.
Decisions are logged transparently so you can show how and why risks were addressed.
Ensure fairness, transparency, and privacy requirements are traceable
VBE turns principles and legal obligations into actionable system requirements.
This ensures they appear not only in policies — but in design, development, and testing.
Make compliance part of the development flow, not an afterthought
VBE provides a shared process between product, engineering, risk, and compliance.
It reduces friction and ensures teams have clarity on obligations at every stage
Strengthen audit readiness and accountability
With structured documentation, stakeholder inputs, and decision logs, VBE enables clear, defensible evidence for audits, assessments, and due-diligence processes.
Prepare for upcoming regulations on AI, automated decision-making, and data governance
VBE helps teams align with emerging regulatory frameworks — from AI governance to algorithmic transparency — without slowing down innovation.
Getting started with Value-Based Engineering
Explore the VBE Academy to understand our training pathway and how organizations apply Value-Based Engineering in practice.
Whether you are looking for structured learning or want to discuss your specific context, this is the right place to start.
