More Related Content Similar to NetMap for Organisational Analysis and Restructuring (20) NetMap for Organisational Analysis and Restructuring2. The following is a demonstration of how Netmap
can be used to stimulate change programs
through organisational analysis.
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3. Scenario
• Consumer electronics company
experiencing rapid growthWho?
• Perceived efficiency and productivity
problemsWhat?
• Original organisational structure struggling to
cope with rapid hiringWhy?
• Redesign structure by analysing information
flow, identifying hubs and outliers, and
building around organic professional groupsHow?
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CEO
Admin /
Finance
Sales Marketing Production Tech / IT
Reporting from employee
to line manager
Traditional Organisation Map–
Formal Reporting
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Circular satellites show internal
department reporting
Reporting from employee
to line manager
Internal Department Reporting -
Satellites
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Reporting from employee
to line manager
Team lead
Team within the department –
based on internal reporting
analysisDepartment
head
Internal Reporting analysis
e.g. Sales Department
7. Sample
Questions
Who do you communicate with in order
to do your job?
What topics do you communicate
about?
How often do you communicate with
that person, about that topic?
What is the quality of the
communication you have with that
person, about that topic?
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Companywide survey –
Communication style
8. Do the
employees
agree/disagre
e with each
other:
About the topics?
About the frequency?
About the quality?
The collected data allow identification of
hubs and bottlenecks in the flow of information
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Analysis of the survey responses
9. Weekly communications of any quality,
regarding any topic, between employees
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Traditional Organisation Map–
Communication style
Difficult to gain insight
using the columnar layout
10. Weekly communications of any quality,
regarding any topic, between employees
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Clear visualisation of
communication pathways
Using Netmap Circular Layout
11. Weekly communications of any quality,
regarding any topic, between employees
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Why are there no
communication links between
Admin / Finance and the
CEO?
Further investigation needed?
Identify communication
breakdown
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Weekly communications of any quality,
regarding any topic, between employees
Team within the department –
based on communication style analysis
Communication style
within Sales Department
Formal reporting structure
specified three sales teams
Netmap analysis based on the
communication style identifies
self organisation into two
teams
13. Department
Head
The Finance
Department Head
communicates with
only one employee
more than weekly
There was also a noted
lack of communication
with the CEO
Is the Finance
Department Head too
isloated?
Weekly communications of any quality,
regarding any topic, between employees
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Communication style
within Finance department
14. Poor communication
levels in the Marketing
department
Weekly communications of any quality,
regarding any topic, between employees
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Communication style
within Marketing department
15. A tight knit tech / IT
department
Weekly communications of any quality,
regarding any topic, between employees
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Communication style
within IT / Tech department
16. Marketing department
do not communicate
well with
Sales, Finance or
Production
Weekly communications of any quality,
regarding any topic, between employees
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Communication style
between departments
17. One of the
most
powerful of
Netmap’s
features
Displays natural groupings of
employees, regardless of the
pre-defined groups like
“Department”.
Groups are based on
connectivity to other
employees
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Emergent Grouping
18. Emergent Grouping places
employees into groups based on
their natural tendency to
communicate regularly with each
other
Weekly communications of any quality,
regarding any topic, between employees
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Emergent Grouping
19. It can clearly be seen that the Sales
department has split into two teams.
Notice that there are no direct
communication links between the two
sales groups
Weekly communications of any quality,
regarding any topic, between employees
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Emergent Grouping –
Sales Department
20. The head of Finance and his deputy
have disappeared from the emergent
Finance department group, but what
is left is a very integrated team.
This, despite five members of the
team theoretically reporting to the
head of Finance.
Weekly communications of any quality,
regarding any topic, between employees
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Emergent Grouping –
Finance Department
21. Weekly communications of any quality,
regarding any topic, between employees
This group contains all of the
power - the CEO and the
heads of department
Certain members of the
Marketing department only
communicate with the rest of
the business through the head
of Marketing (301) and his
deputy (302).
These in turn have limited
communication with anyone
other than the CEO or Tech /
IT.
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Emergent Grouping –
Management
22. Weekly communications of any quality,
regarding any topic, between employees
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Emergent Grouping –
Management
With information like this,
parts of the business can be
restructured to remove
bottlenecks and put
Initiatives may be put in place
that allow employees the
freedom to forge new
relationships within the
organisation, and make
decisions through wider
consultation.
23. Netmap
has:
The ability to handle large datasets
from any source, and to integrate
otherwise incompatible data
Extremely fast and powerful querying
tools
An advanced and unique Emergent
Grouping that locates hidden, natural
groupings in data
A simple user interface for choosing the
different levels of communication to suit
the questions you are trying to answer
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Why Netmap?
24. Netmap can be
used for a huge
range of
different
purposes:
Strategic Planning - analysis of
large, complex logical constructs
Mapping Financial Data - activity
based costing for better resource
management
External Contacts - building and
testing collaboration networks.
Criminal Investigation - uncovering
Fraud and criminal networks
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The power of Netmap