In this first in a number of cases, the organizational network analysis (ONA), Vic Gulas, the new leader in IT consulting engineering consulting firm MWH, charged with turning geographically organized a department in one organized by function. He knows that the success of the reorganization will depend on effective cooperation, but he can not get a sense that the relationship of cooperation to do, and there, looking at the formal organizational charts. Instead, Gulas uses ONA, the way the relationship between the people in the group. In the results of the ONA, Gulas sees a group still fragmented by geography and limited hierarchy, and other gaps in communication. After examining a very detailed assessment of working relations in the IT department, Gulas must decide if what steps it can take to align the network department with business objectives. "Hide
by Rob Cross, Amy L. Halliday, Vic Gulas, Andrew Parker, Teri Vigneux Source: Darden School of Business 20 pages. Publication Date: January 12, 2009. Prod. #: UV1096-PDF-ENG
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