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Practical Advice, Powerful Results.

Applying network analytics and practices to drive organizational performance and innovation.

Network science can transform the way you drive innovation, streamline processes, create agility and engage talent.

Working with Rob, organizations can apply network analytics to identify strategic opportunities for improvement and deploy customized and research-based practices to achieve their goals.

Using a flexible suite of analytics, Rob and his team can inform critical decision processes and help you address challenges such as:

  • Driving organizational change and agility. ONA can identify silos across functions and locations, awareness of expertise, and people most and least connected—key factors in driving change and the ability to be responsive to internal and external customers.
  • Promoting rapid innovation. ONA can assess information flow, new idea generation, problem solving and decision-making interactions. With this data, organizations can prompt emergent innovation by removing silos, combining expertise and accelerating decision making.
  • Driving revenue growth. ONA can map information flow and collaboration tied to business development and sales, marketing and other efforts related to revenue production. Results illuminate points in the network where improved collaboration would produce better client solutions or new revenue opportunities.
  • Improving performance through collaboration. ONA can assess the depth and intensity of collaboration and so help leaders reduce collaborative overload on central people in the network, integrate expertise on the edge of the network, break down silos and leverage top talent.
  • Speeding merger integration. ONA can assess connectivity between “legacy” and “new” groups, identify opinion leaders, and map beliefs, goals and priorities. Findings allow for tailored, targeted interventions to reduce flight risks and more rapidly integrate groups and organizations.

With access to previously hidden network data, you can measure the costs of inefficient collaboration and see new solutions to your biggest challenges.

Defining the Future of Work in a Hyper-Connected World

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What future-focused leaders say about Rob …

Rob and I have partnered over several years, first at Ford and now at DICKS Sporting Goods, focused primarily on Collaboration Overload and Wellbeing.  He has a unique ability to bring rich, credible research to light in a digestible way… he humanizes the science, and uses his expertise to help us all lead, work, and live better together.

Julie Lodge-Jarrett
Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer

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The key thing that differentiates Rob from other thought leaders is his ability to provide practical, effective advice to ensure our senior executives are armed with the tools and approaches to improve their skills in this hugely important area of leadership behaviour. He is very skilled in presenting complex concepts and facilitating senior executive teams either in the room or remotely using collaborative technology.

Mark Spears
Global Head of People & Change

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We have for many years worked with academics and “thought leaders” and have often been disappointed. Working with people and organisations is difficult, complex work and simplistic solutions based on unsubstantiated opinions deliver little. Rob’s work is research-based with data-driven analysis and evidence. His message, delivered with clarity and conviction, provides clear signposts to achieve sustained performance improvement. He’s also easy and fun to work with.

Mike Haffenden
Director

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Boston Children’s Hospital has begun to focus on the well-being of our leaders and how to manage collaborative overload. Rob Cross bought his talents and research to bear on this challenge in several leadership talks and workshops which made a significant impact on our leaders. Having worked with Rob for almost 20 years, I have seen his work and practical insights regarding how organizations really work and how to understand and manage networks as critical to our change processes.

Chris Newell
Chief Learning Officer

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Rob Cross blends the best attributes of a “disciplined academic researcher” of social and organizational network analysis with the enormous pragmatism of a “consultant-practitioner.” He is driven to make his growing body of research eminently accessible and applicable to the work of commercial organizations. Our team has benefited tremendously from all the resources and tools available within the Connected Commons organization he founded, and from Rob’s direct engagement with leaders in our organization as a consultant.

Julian Malnak
Chief Learning Officer

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Rob Cross blends the best attributes of a “disciplined academic researcher” of social and organizational network analysis with the enormous pragmatism of a “consultant-practitioner.” He is driven to make his growing body of research eminently accessible and applicable to the work of commercial organizations. Our team has benefited tremendously from all the resources and tools available within the Connected Commons organization he founded, and from Rob’s direct engagement with leaders in our organization as a consultant.

Ashley Goodall
SVP, Leadership and Team Intelligence

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Rob CrossRob Cross has studied the underlying network dynamics of effective organizations and the collaborative practices of high performers for more than 20 years. Through research and writing, speaking and consulting, and courses and tools, Rob’s network strategies are transforming the way people lead, work and live in a hyper-connected world.

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