The Organizational Network Fieldbook: Best Practices, Techniques, and Exercises to Drive Organizational Innovation and Performance

6.6. Results in Progress

Our team-strengthening effort is a work in process. Nevertheless, we have seen noticeable changes for the better in the way people work with one another. Many old antagonisms between the subgroups have been resolved, members from different groups are more willing to depend on each other rather than insisting on completely owning their own destinies, and in general there is a renewed sense that ITSec belongs to all of us.

We plan to administer another ONA later this year, in the hope of confirming analytically what we have witnessed. A word of warning: we found that the hiatus between Waves 2 and 3, roughly six months, was too long. During that time, we saw that people occasionally slid back into their old habits. In ...