We’ve worked with myriad industries and organizations to apply network analysis to six solutions. White papers, articles, case studies, and example business applications for each area will provide you with a flavor of the diversity of our organizational network projects.
Explore our 6 Solutions below:
Personal networks have a strong impact on overall effectiveness in the workplace today. Research over the past 20 years consistently shows that people with better networks assimilate into an organization faster and stay longer. They tend to be promoted earlier than their peers, and are more likely to be high performers, paid better, more mobile, and more influential in their organizations. However, the key to an effective network is not simply a bigger network. Rather, high performers tend to have networks that both leverage and extend their skills and abilities in important ways. Providing executives with a means of developing and obtaining feedback on their personal network is an effective way to promote the right connectivity.
Learn how to . . .
- On-Board New Hires Rapidly
- Replicate Networks of High Performers
- Improve Leadership Development & Career Planning
- Reduce Knowledge Loss from Retirements or Turnover
White Papers:
How Top Talent Uses Networks and Where Rising Stars Get Trapped
Article:
What Creates Energy in Organizations?
Strategies for Preventing a Knowledge Loss Crisis
Case Study:
American Cancer Society, Performance Drivers for Productive Fund Raising
Example Business Application:
Improving Organizational Performance through Talent Management
A core function of top executive teams is to acquire information, make sound decisions, and convey those decisions effectively to the broader organization. Organizational network analysis provides valuable diagnostic information to leaders and their teams to streamline decision-making, identify rising stars, and identify how effectively groups are working cross-boundaries such as location, function, role, and hierarchy. By looking inside networks, to assess where value and cost reside, leaders can improve connectivity at points that ensure strategic alignment and add economic value.
Learn how to . . .
- Streamline Strategic Decision-Making Processes
- Optimize Leadership Development & Succession Planning
- Cultivate a Global Perspective
White Papers:
Leading in a Connected World: How Effective Leaders Drive Results Through Networks
Case Study:
Managing Leadership Transition in a Developing Practice
Example Business Application:
Improving Strategic Decision-Making in Top Leadership Networks
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.
Learn how to . . .
- Align Strategic Goals with Collaboration in Networks
- Reduce Costs of Collaboration
- Improve Collaboration Critical to Core Processes
- Create Effective Lateral Networks (e.g., Communities of Practice, Alliances)
White Papers:
Articles:
Strategies for Preventing a Knowledge Loss Crisis
Mapping the Value of Employee Collaboration
Using Social Network Analysis to Improve Communities of Practice
Case Studies:
Defense Intelligence Agency, Applying Network Analysis to Create a Vital Community of Practice
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:
Most innovations today are created through networks—groups of people working in concert to introduce or adapt products, processes and business models to changing markets and technologies. Innovation is central to an organization’s success. However, increased complexity of most new products and services, reduced development cycles, and leaner budgets have meant that innovation efforts must bring together a depth and breadth of expertise—from both inside and outside an organization—faster and more effectively than ever before. A network perspective uniquely enables leaders to promote collaborations that generate better innovations with greater likelihood of effective implementation.
Learn how to . . .
- Improve Innovation Capacity of Line & Support Functions
- Streamline Innovation Processes
- Replicate Effective New Product Development Teams
Article:
Driving Rapid Innovation with a Network Perspective
Press:
Case Study:
Masterfoods USA, Driving Innovation in R&D with Network Analysis
Example Business Application:
Executives today must implement large-scale organizational change initiatives in ever-tighter time frames with fewer resources. Yet, anticipated performance outcomes often do not materialize as internal resistance slows or derails their change initiatives. An organizational network analysis (ONA), done before a change initiative, can help identify barriers to change and facilitate change initiatives by leveraging people and values in certain network positions such as highly central people and those who broker relationships across groups. An ONA can also be done as a follow-up six to nine months after implementation to evaluate the success of the initiatives and areas where further interventions are necessary.
Learn how to . . .
- Manage Large Scale Change & Post-Merger Integration
- Align Networks to Ensure Change Programs Deliver Desired Results
- Identify & Mobilize Key Network Enablers to Support and Drive Change
Articles:
Managing Change through Networks and Values
Case Studies:
MWH, Transitioning Regional IT Departments Into s Single, Unified Global Group
Keane, Enabling Change During the Company-wide Transformation
Example Business Application:
In today’s dynamic, global and knowledge-intensive business environment, the quality of an organization’s relationships with its key clients is a substantial determinant of long-term profitability. Strong client relationships—characterized by a high degree of trust and mutual knowledge—lead to account penetration, lower transaction costs, customization of service delivery, In turn, it results in a superior ability to create and extract value as well as greater relationship stability when client and firm executives change roles. A network perspective can help organizations optimize collaborations within account teams and with clients, replicate the networks of high-performing sales people, and increase revenue-generating interactions.
Learn how to . . .
- Foster Collaborations that Generate High-End Sales (e.g., Cross-Selling)
- Optimize Key Account Team Strategies
- Replicate Networks of High-Performing Sales People
Article:
Mapping the Value of Employee Collaboration
Case Studies:
Consumer Packaged Goods, Networks and Behaviors of High-Performing Account Teams
Ketchum, Proving Network Analysis at Multiple Levels (Account Team, Pilot Office, Personal Networks)
CSC, Evaluating Connectivity to Optimize Client Performance
Example Business Application:
Revenue Growth through Value-Added Collaborations and Strategic