October 2005 archives

October 28, 2005 by Patti

ONA Case Study

The current issue of The Learning Organization, published by Emerald Insight contains an article that I have co-written with Rob Cross and Vic Gulas of MHW Global on Vic’s work with organizational network analysis at MWH. This article is part of my ongoing contribution to the research in ONA and organizational change for the Network [...]

October 17, 2005 by Patti

Social Architecture

My bags aren’t packed, but I was looking forward to KMworld until I found out about the conference that Stowe Boyd has designed a Symposium on Social Architecture to be held in Cambridge (just a few miles away!) November 14: The Symposium on Social Architecture (SSA) will bring together the leading lights of the social [...]

October 16, 2005 by Patti

Sense-Making, ONA, and Descriptive Self-Awareness

My recent ONA (Organizational Network Analysis) work with clients and with the Chicago masterclass have brought home for me the role of ONA in sense-making, and the distinction “sense-making” itself. A network analysis gives an organization data presented both visually and quantitatively that sparks insights that prompt good, probing questions and lead to action. In [...]

October 15, 2005 by Patti

1,000 cups of coffee

Change management is a key topic for any consultant; for those of us doing the work of moving organizations to networked collaborative styles of work it is a hot topic. Lately I’ve thought a lot about the best lesson I ever learned about how to change a large organization and recalled that I’d written about [...]

October 10, 2005 by Patti

Connecting blogdots and real people

At Connect and Collaborate, I met Liz Lawley who gave a great talk on social software. Liz has a dream job, a year’s fellowship at Microsoft, where she can just poke around and get herself involved in projects that interest her. I learned a lot from her keynote, and was motivated to get out and [...]