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.
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What future-focused leaders say about Rob …
Rob has a unique ability to be both a credible subject-matter expert as well as a relatable human—and this isn’t always a balance that’s easy to strike! Ford began partnering with Rob several years ago, when our CEO and leadership team wanted to learn more about Collaborative Overload and working effectively within a global network. He instantly connected with our leaders and earned credibility with our HR team.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rob 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.