5.2. A Four-Step Process Toward Small Practice Groups
The following is a process we followed in helping the RBD develop small practice groups.
5.2.1. Step 1: Design and Conduct the Baseline ONA
A good baseline Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) should reveal experts, brokers, central connectors, peripheral players, and any fragmentation across groups. In the case of the RBD, the lab director was intent on getting a visual inventory of the network of his organization. We'd had good discussions with him about the overall business drivers and value proposition, but not down to a practical level for such a large, complex organization.
The maps that were generated by the ONA allowed us to examine the network by country, function, topic, and level ...
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