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* Spot opportunities to improve knowledge flow; | * Spot opportunities to improve knowledge flow; | ||
* Target those where better knowledge sharing will have the most impact; | * Target those where better knowledge sharing will have the most impact; | ||
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'''Applications''': | '''Applications''': | ||
| − | For a most comprehensive application of social | + | For a most comprehensive application of social network analysis, refer to the book: The Hidden Power of Social Networks where a host of specific and inexpensive actions at the individual, group, and organizational levels that can help promote vibrant employee networks is outlined: |
* Supporting partnership and alliances | * Supporting partnership and alliances | ||
* Assessing strategy execution | * Assessing strategy execution | ||
| − | * Improving strategic decision making in top | + | * Improving strategic decision making in top leadership networks |
| − | * Integrating | + | * Integrating networks accross core processes |
* Promoting innovation | * Promoting innovation | ||
* Ensuring integration post-merger o large-scale change | * Ensuring integration post-merger o large-scale change | ||
Revision as of 14:50, 3 November 2008
 SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS (SNA) |
| The mapping, measuring and comparison of relationships within and between individuals, groups, organizations, and systems in order to model the real-world interactions at the heart of knowledge organization and learning processes. While an organizational chart shows formal relationships of function and responsibility, SNA illustrates informal relationships: "who know whom" and "who shares with whom". SNA is used to examine how the interactions occur within an organization, allowing leaders to visualize and understand the diverse relationships that either facilitate of impede knowledge sharing. After social relationships and knowledge flows become visible, they can be evaluated, compared and measured. The results of SNA can be applied at the level of individuals, departments or organizations to:
SNA is sometimes referred to as an "organizational X-ray", showing the real networks that operate underneath the surface of the organization structure.[1] Applications: For a most comprehensive application of social network analysis, refer to the book: The Hidden Power of Social Networks where a host of specific and inexpensive actions at the individual, group, and organizational levels that can help promote vibrant employee networks is outlined:
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References
- ↑ webopedia.com (25 July 2008) , www.answers.com (25 July 2008) , www.odi.org.uk (25 July 2008) , www.odi.org.uk/rapid/Tools/Toolkits/KM (25 July 2008) http://www.km4dev.org/index.php/articles/books/274
- ↑ [The Hidden Power of Social Networks, Rob Cross & Andrew Parker, Harvard Business School Press, 2004 (03 November 2008), http://www.km4dev.org/index.php/articles/books/274 www.km4dev.org