Solutions: Organizational Effectiveness

Collaboration within and among organizations has become increasing important, driven primarily by increasing specialization of knowledge-based work and globalization. However, effectively enabling or managing collaboration is elusive since it often cuts across functions, locations, business units, and sometimes even organizations. Organizational network analysis makes collaboration visible via network maps of relationships. With quantitative and qualitative data, organizations can not only analyze economic costs and benefits of interactions but identify key interventions to redefine roles, provide incentives, and allocate resources.

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White Papers:

Critical Connections: Achieving Higher Performance by Integrating Networks with Team Efforts at the Top

Creating the Right Decision-Making Networks:
Driving Decision Efficiency and Effectiveness through Networks

Articles:

Strategies for Preventing a Knowledge Loss Crisis

Mapping the Value of Employee Collaboration

The Craft of Connections

Using Social Network Analysis to Improve Communities of Practice

Case Studies:

Defense Intelligence Agency, Applying Network Analysis to Create a Vital Community of Practice

Consumer Packaged Goods: Identifying Opportunities to Leverage Skills and Scale of Expertise Across Communities

Financial Services, Applying Network Analysis to Rapidly Build Effective Communities of Practice

Dominion, Improving Performance of IT Architects

Pharmaceutical Alliance, Two Global 500 Companies Bridging the Divide

Construction Company, Improving Performance of Offices, Teams and Individuals with Network Analysis

Example Business Applications:

Integrating Networks Across Core Processes

Developing Effective Communities of Practice

Effectively Leveraging External Networks

Press:

Less You, More We

The Hidden Workplace

More Solutions:

Talent Management

Leadership

Organizational Effectiveness

Innovation

Change Management

Revenue Growth