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Organizational Hierarchy…Adapting Old Structures to New Challenges

"We may not be interested in chaos, but chaos is interested in us." - Robert CooperWhen change was slow, and the future was pretty much like the present, hierarchical organizations were perfect...

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Introductions

Make an Introduction today.Close a triangle./\  ->  ∆

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Non-Obvious Networks in Common Data

Corporations and governments have lots of data in spreadsheets and data bases.  That is obvious.  What is not so obvious is that those data sets often hold hidden and non-obvious patterns and...

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Leadership and Followership

I have been mapping employee networks for more than 20 years.  One of the key outcomes of this process is revealing the real leaders inside an organization!  What makes a real leader?  A real leader is...

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Happy 2014 Holidays!

This year, again, give the Gift of Connection... Introduce two people you know, that would benefit from knowing each other!

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Discovering Emergent Communities of Knowledge in your Organization

Communities of Practice [CoPs] are  are viewed as an excellent way to discover, share and keep key knowledge in the organization -- especially critical tacit/informal knowledge that is hard to document...

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Data Visualization Requires Storytelling!

In today's world of "Big Data" everyone is looking for interesting patterns in their data and visualizing the results.  They think "pretty pictures" are the goal.  But, pretty pictures are often pretty...

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Finding Key Opinion Leaders & Influentials using Social Network Analysis

Professionals do not make decisions based on facts and numbers alone. They do not make decisions in isolation. Like the rest of us, they use their local network of trusted others for advice, opinions...

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Twenty Years and More!

Logo and artwork © 2015, Silvija KrebsThis month we celebrate 20 years in business doing social and organizational network analysis!  Thank you to our Clients, Colleagues and Collaborators! We have...

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Innovation happens at the Intersections

Each node in the network above represents an employee in a pharmaceutical firm’s research organization. A gray line is drawn between two employees if they exchange information about discoveries. Node...

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Data Mining Email to Discover Organizational Networks

Email Social Graph of Project CommunicationsThe social graph above shows the email flows amongst a large project team. It is an x-ray of how the project actually works! Each person on the team is...

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Professional Social Graphs

Above is the social graph [a.k.a. social network map] of Paul Erdős  Two nodes are connected by a link if they collaborated on writing one or more academic papers.  Erdős was an expert in the...

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The Illusion of the "Majority Illusion"

The Washington Post recently published an interesting article on a non-obvious aspect of human networks called "The Majority Illusion".  I am usually glad to see network science explained in the...

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Happy Holidays 2015!

This year, as always, give the Gift of Connection... Introduce two people you know, that would benefit from knowing each other!Artwork by Silvija KrebsCopyright © 2015

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Signal and Noise on Twitter

Twitter is a great place for new and interesting information -- if you can find it!  So much of what is good on Twitter is drowned out by the noise on Twitter.  At the end of 2015, I was dissatisfied...

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Mapping Conversations on Twitter

I often participate in Twitter chats on topics I find interesting and useful.  It is via these Twitter chats that I often find new and interesting people to follow on one of my Twitter lists. I often...

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Reading the Political Book Network

I have been mapping networks of people since the late 1980s.  In the late 1990s I began mapping networks of artifacts that people interacted with -- like documents & publications.  One day, while...

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The Panama Papers and the Magnitsky Case

On May 9th 2016, The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) will release the Panama Papers data to the public.  A searchable data base of much, but not all, of the Panama Papers...

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Combining and Connecting Organizations

Why do most mergers, partnerships and alliances fail to live up to expectations? Is it the finances, or the technology? Rarely. Is it the overly ambitious strategy of executives? Occasionally. Mostly,...

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Communities of Connections

We all live in multiple on-line communities. What do they look like? The diagram below shows an actual on-line community [OC]. Every node in the network represents a person. A link between two nodes...

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Watson Looks at Networks

We have been mapping and measuring people networks for more than 20 years, mostly using our own software.  Last year we were chosen by IBM as a "social influencer" in the cognitive computing space and...

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See the Spread, Stop the Spread

Both good and bad contagions spread via human networks. For good contagions, like ideas, knowledge, and experience we want our networks to quickly spread the information. For bad contagions, like...

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Music for Network Thinking

When we think of music we often think of songs or symphonies. These have an expected structure, distinct themes and musical keys. There is a clear beginning, clear ending and distinct parts. No matter...

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What's in the White Space on your Organization Chart?

Organizations work by connections.  These include the prescribed connections of the hierarchy, formal business processes, assigned teams — the structures put in place by management.  Other...

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Happy Holidays!

Wow, what a year -- we need to be connected more than ever!This year, as always, give the Gift of Connection... Introduce two people you know, that would benefit from knowing each other!Connected we...

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