Organizational Network Analysis provides insights into how teams and organizations work together through mapping the informal networks between employees. It identifies experts, influencers, and best collaborators. This helps organizations discover where knowledge resides, make better personnel decisions, increase collaboration, and align culture with business goals. Network Analysis makes an organization's invisible intellectual capital visible by mapping how information and work flows between people.

1. Organizational Network Analysis
Insights you’ve never had… Organizational Network Analysis provides
• Who are the experts in
your organization?
insight into how teams, departments, and
• Who influences your organization organizations work together, make
or teams the most?
• Who are your best mentors?
decisions and innovate.
• Is your organization
working effectively?
Top four ways to drive value
• Is your leadership in the loop?
Discover where your organization’s knowledge lives
• How connected are
your departments? An organization’s intellectual capital, its collective knowledge and experiences,
is its most valuable asset, but often goes untapped.
• What communication channels
are strong and where should
you invest to strengthen
Make better “people decisions”
communication? For any network, the analysis identifies the top 10% of individuals performing
in areas of Decision Making, Expertise, Learning, Innovation, and Strategy.
• How strong is the collaboration
in your organization?
Leaders Mentor/Mentee Problem Solver Rising Star
Is there anything more Employee 1
Employee 2
valuable than an
Employee 3
organization’s intellectual
Employee 4
capital? Organizational Employee 5
Network Analysis brings
this invisible asset into Recognize leaders and build customized career plans
tailored to your employees’ strengths
the light.
Increase organizational collaboration
The analysis shows how people and groups are working together, enabling
leaders to identify opportunities for increased collaboration.
Align Organization Culture and Business Performance
Network Analysis will provide valuable information about your company’s overall
cultural health, including how departments or business units are performing
in decision-making and communication.
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2. Organizational Network
Analysis is valuable when you
are:
• Involved in a merger and
integration process
• Considering a reorganization
Intellectual capital is often untapped because it resides entirely
• An incoming leader who needs to
get a better picture of your people within the people of the organization who are connected via
• Preparing for any major change invisible “informal” networks. Locating that intellectual capital,
optimizing the organization’s networks, and retaining the people
• Lacking good communication
between departments or teams who house the knowledge, are critical challenges in today’s com-
• Facing succession planning petitive labor market.
• Looking to improve employee
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Analysis:
• is a surveying tool
• is simple to execute
Organizational Charts show only the
• is a robust analytical engine hierarchy, but network maps reveal the
• provides three levels of insight: health of information and work flow
• Individual
• Team/department
• Organization
• Makes visible multiple organizational
behaviors including collaboration,
knowledge exchange, leadership, About PeopleFirm
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