Organizational Network Analysis as a Strategic Workplace and Workforce Tool

Organizational Network Analysis as a Strategic Workplace and Workforce Tool

This IDC Perspective provides insights into organizational network analysis as a strategic workplace and workforce tool. Organizational network analysis is a tool that most organizations can benefit from implementing in their organization to reveal people dynamics that they are unaware of and are affecting organizational productivity and workforce engagement. While it reveals workforce collaborators, energizers, and blockers, the analysis it provides is best utilized by following the insights rather than using it to seek to validate pre-COVID-19 beliefs about the workforce."Organizations that rely on old mental models on how best to handle their workplaces' people strategy are inviting potential talent, diversity and inclusion, culture change, attrition, and other people-related issues to their organization. A better practice for your organization is to test your assumptions with organizational network analysis to better understand the workforce and workplace dynamics taking place in your organization that you are unaware of and are harder to surface," says Bill Latshaw, research director, Worldwide Business Consulting Services at IDC.

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