Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness

Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness
Inquiry and learning into social networks, organizational network analysis, and the relationships among people and systems in complex organizations and networks.

Sunday, November 27, 2005

KMWorld and the Social Network

(Just back from a post-KMWorld vacation.) Happy to report that social, personal, and organizational networks/analysis showed up in many ways and places, even though there were no sessions specifically on ONA/SNA itself.

In his opening keynote, Tom Davenport listed "Emulate the social networks of high performers" as #9 on his list of 10 ways to improve knowledge work. For the record, the complete list is:
1. Adopt a process orientation
2. Change the external environment
3. Embed knowledge into work
4. Automate decisions
5. Focus knowledge management
6. Address personal capabilities/personal knowledge management
7. Reuse existing intellectual assets
8. Put someone in charge (of improving performance)
9. Emulate the social networks of high performers
10. Experiment (and measure)

Dan Holtshouse ofXerox, in his talk on the workplace of the future, also gave high marks to social network analysis as a key to understanding the key knowledge assets.

And of course Verna Allee, in both her workshop and her Thursday keynote stressed the synergy between her own Value Network Analysis (VNA) and network analysis.

There was a full track on social networks, tools, and development, which I had to miss because I was moderating a very interesting day on knowledge transfer.

My colleague Joe Hutchinson and I gave a well-attended talk on "Piloting Collaboration Software", based on our work with clients who are introducing tools like eRoom and SharePoint, which we'll post on our web site later today.

[More when I dig through the piles of laundry and my notes show up!]

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Comments:

Hi - great blog! I think we have some interests in common..
Drop me a line if ever anything seems relevant... http://public.cranfield.ac.uk/sims_staff/wccw1/
Cheers, Carol

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