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"A striking aspect of the Steve Borgatti network analysis workshop at University of Kentucky was how his talk relied heavily on early network analysis, especially that done with Rob Cross at IBM's Institute for Knowledge Based Organizations where Andrew Parker also worked. Their research inside Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and with BCG clients at the turn of the century, was central to his presentation"

McKinsey have developed an approach to retention: to detect previously unobserved behavioural patterns, they combine various data sources with machine-learning algorithms. Workshops and interviews are used to generate ideas and a set of hypotheses. Over time they collected hundreds of data points to test. Then ran different algorithms to get insights at a broad organisational level, to identify specific employee clusters, and to make individual predictions. Finally they held a series of workshops and focus groups to validate the insights from our models and to develop a series of concrete interventions. The insights were surprising and at times counterintuitive. They expected factors such as an individual's performance rating or compensation to be the top predictors of unwanted attrition. But analysis revealed that a lack of mentoring and coaching and of "affiliation" with people who have similar interests were actually top of list. More specifically, "flight risk" across the firm fell by 20 to 40 percent when coaching and mentoring were deemed satisfying.

McKinsey have developed an approach to retention: to detect previously unobserved behavioural patterns, they combine various data sources with machine-learning algorithms. Workshops and interviews are used to generate ideas and a set of hypotheses. Over time they collected hundreds of data points to test. Then ran different algorithms to get insights at a broad organisational level, to identify specific employee clusters, and to make individual predictions. Finally they held a series of workshops and focus groups to validate the insights from our models and to develop a series of concrete interventions. The insights were surprising and at times counterintuitive. They expected factors such as an individual's performance rating or compensation to be the top predictors of unwanted attrition. But analysis revealed that a lack of mentoring and coaching and of "affiliation" with people who have similar interests were actually top of list. More specifically, "flight risk" across the firm fell by 20 to 40 percent when coaching and mentoring were deemed satisfying.

Today, AI is reality, thanks to big data analysis, exa-scale storage, and cloud technologies that complement AI algorithms with highly scalable methods to quickly access and analyze massive data sets. #ai

"Gareth Morgan (Porthcawl, Wales, 22 December, 1943) is a British / Canadian [organizational theorist]], management consultant and Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto. He is known as creator of the "organisational metaphor" concept and writer of the bestsellers Images of Organization.[1], Imaginization: New Mindsets for Seeing, Organizing and Managing, Riding the Waves of Change and other books on management. He is also well known for his writings on social theory and research methodology, especially through his books Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis (written with Gibson Burrell)and Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research. The common theme uniting his work is that of challenging assumptions - to help develop new ways of thinking in social research, organization and management theory and practice, and, by implication, in everyday life."

In the parlance of social network analysis, density is the percentage of people in your network connected to each other that could be. By increasing density, new things spread more quickly through it.

"Gamification can turn otherwise unpleasant tasks like data analysis, setting through data, paying attention to specific code and other intense activities that can be quite tedious and boring and turn them into something fun. This is why Gamification is such a hot trend in technology because it can truly reinvent work."

When managers say they are data driven and ROI focused they are usually more intent on professing a belief than delivering results. They are, essentially, accidental theorists, putting their faith in an abstract idea rather than engaging in any true analysis of cause and effect. Despite what many will tell you, numbers can lie and only fools follow them blindly.

"these pages are invaluable for anyone setting up and SNA survey for the first time using the Optimice survey tool. The results from this survey are compatible with the UCI Net Analysis Tools used by our KIN Associate, Andrew Parker"

" Rob Cross, KIN Associate for the Social Network Analysis SIG is co-author of this presentation. It is relevant for organisations who are considering the transition elements of knowledge retentio"

""An online forum an early stage Community of Practice on Organizational Network Analysis (ONA)." Participants include Patti Anklam, Bruce Hoppe and Seth Earley"

"Take a look at this site - the group leading the "Social Network Analysis: On-line Roles, Community & Network Weaving". Jenny Ambrozec is leading this study and will reveal the results of their findings at the KIN event"

With the advent of Web 2.0, numerous social software applications allow people to publish and share information on the Internet. Two of these types of applications - collaborative workspaces and social network sites - have a number of features in common, which are explored to provide a basis for comparative analysis.

It's not humans who are the recipients and decision makers of data and analysis, it's machines. Machines are making all or most of the decisions in areas like programmatic advertising, search engine optimization, credit approval, insurance underwriting, Internet of Things applications, and many more.

SNA analysis of Facebook's @Workplace by Laurence Lock Lee

Amazon is pursuing an open-systems approach that allows quick development of many features, while Apple is taking a slower route, asserting more control over the technology in order to assure security and ease-of-use.

The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project fielded a nationally representative phone survey about the social and civic lives of SNS users and reported the findings in June 2011 in a report entitled "Social networking sites and our lives."1 During the phone survey, 269 of 877 original respondents who were Facebook users gave us permission to access data on their use of Facebook so that it could be matched with their survey responses. We partnered with Facebook to match individual responses from the survey with profile information and computer logs of how those same people used Facebook services over a one-month period in November 2010 that overlapped when the survey was in the field.

" This website contains links to a fantastic amount of information on SNA ranging from journals, research, further URLs to job announcements"

" Interesting approach, looking at how to understand how to elicit and represent knowledge as well as providing tools to help you to understand how people think"

"Interesting approach, looking at how to understand how to elicit and represent knowledge as well as providing tools to help you to understand how people think"

New McKinsey research shows that a payday could be arriving faster than expected. A new class of company is emerging-one that uses collaborative Web 2.0 technologies intensively to connect the internal efforts of employees and to extend the organization's reach to customers, partners, and suppliers. We call this new kind of company the networked enterprise. Results from our analysis of proprietary survey data show that the Web 2.0 use of these companies is significantly improving their reported performance.