Summer 2006 Event

Washington DC KM Cluster® KM Cluster® Summer 2006 Event   Social Networks Analysis   using   Friday, June 30, 2006 8:00am - 5:00pm     Secure Registration Form

Knowledge Management Cluster® Summer 2006   Event Location Knowledge Center Marriott Learning Complex Ronald Reagan Building International Trade Center 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20004 USA Phone 202.326.9550 Fax 202.326.0950 Directions, Map, Parking, Transit

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Social Network Analysis - Benefits and Advantages

Social Network Analysis is used to effectively map and measure networks, knowledge flows and relationships in organizations, communities and other complex human systems. These practical methods are highly instrumental in building and optimizing the dynamic knowledge ecosystems essential to productivity, innovation and the future of all knowledge-based organizations. The specific benefits and advantages you will gain from the Enterprise Social Network Analysis experience and using InFlow 3.0 Software are as follows:

• Focus attention on the importance of tacit knowledge and intangible assets;
• Uncover your best knowledge resources and conduits in the organization;
• Lower cost through far better balance and use of existing resources;
• Achieve fundamental improvements and speed in innovation and R&D;
• Improve top-line performance by optimizing contribution of top performers;
• Understand what happens in the white space in the organization chart;
• Conduct 'what if' analysis before making organizational changes;
• Identify assess security threats, vulnerabilities and other risks;
• Plan intelligent redesign of office layout and social architectures;
• Monitor, tune and optimize mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations;
• Improve the evaluation and choice of alliance partners;
• Gain a deeper understanding of your Communities of Practice;
• Reveal the real experts in your enterprise and who has access to them;
• Discover the holes in your information flows and knowledge exchanges;
• Identify key connections that must not be broken in reorganizations or downsizing;
• Develop existing and new leaders in agile and adaptive organizations;
• Build and improve diversity through inclusion of women and minorities;
• Identify emergent leaders and top performers;
• Lead succession planning for key executives;
• Improve the performance of virtual and far-flung teams;
• Determine those to include in 360 performance/feedback surveys;
• Establish productive dialogue among managers to foster/lead change;
• Optimize knowledge ecosystems through better use of existing assets;
• Expose knowledge bottlenecks, underperformers and overworked employees.

Through a process of narrative, conversation and hands-on InFlow 3.0 Software workshop and practice, you will be able to quickly use and apply Enterprise Social Network Analysis to fundamentally advance the efficiency and effectiveness and all knowledge-based processes, innovations, organizations and ecosystems.

 Social Network Analysis
 

Friday, June 30, 2006
8:00am - 5:00pm

Special Notice:

Tuition includes a fully-functional, 75-node participant copy of InFlow Software. As usual, all materials, meals, refreshments, registration, shared services and other logistics are covered by your Fall 2004 KM Cluster tuition. In addition, all participants also receive a complimentary copy of “The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations,” by Rob Cross and Andrew Parker.

Time	Interaction	Speaker
8:00 - 9:00	Coffee and Registration	Staff
9:00 - 11:00	Enterprise Social Network Analysis	Valdis Krebs OrgNet
11:00 - 11:30	Participant Introductions Morning Break	All
11:30 - 1:00	InFlow Software	Valdis Krebs OrgNet
1:00 -2:00	Spring 2004 Luncheon	All
2:00 - 3:30	InFlow Hands-on Practice Workshop	Valdis Krebs OrgNet
3:30 - 4:00	Afternoon Refreshments	All
4:00 - 5:00	Getting Started in Your Organization: Enterprise SNA Next Practices	Valdis Krebs OrgNet
5:00	Fall 2004 Adjournment