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Uncovering the Best Resources of Knowledge and Speeding up the Innovation
Economic Network Analysis is used to effectively map and measure
networks, knowledge flows and relationships in organizations, communities,
regions, and other complex human systems. These practical methods are highly
instrumental in building and optimizing the dynamic knowledge ecosystems
essential to productivity, innovation and the future of all knowledge-based
organizations. The specific benefits and advantages you will gain from the
Economic Network Analysis are as follows:
* Focus attention on the importance of tacit knowledge and intangible assets;
* Uncover your best knowledge resources and conduits in the organization;
* Lower cost through far better balance and use of existing resources;
* Achieve fundamental improvements and speed in innovation and R&D;
* Improve top-line performance by optimizing contribution of top performers;
* Understand what happens in the white space in the organization chart;
* Conduct 'what if' analysis before making organizational changes;
* Identify assess security threats, vulnerabilities and other risks;
* Plan intelligent redesign of office layout and social architectures;
* Monitor, tune and optimize mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations;
* Improve the evaluation and choice of alliance partners;
* Gain a deeper understanding of your Communities of Practice;
* Reveal the real experts in your enterprise and who has access to them;
* Discover the holes in your information flows and knowledge exchanges;
* Identify key connections that must not be broken in reorganizations or downsizing;
* Develop existing and new leaders in agile and adaptive organizations;
* Build and improve diversity through inclusion of women and minorities;
* Identify emergent leaders and top performers;
* Lead succession planning for key executives;
* Improve the performance of virtual and far-flung teams;
* Determine those to include in 360 performance/feedback surveys;
* Establish productive dialogue among managers to foster/lead change;
* Optimize knowledge ecosystems through better use of existing assets;
* Expose knowledge bottlenecks, underperformers and overworked employees.