He knows that the success of the reorganization will depend on successful collaboration, by looking at a conventional organizational chart but he cannot get a sense of what collaborative relationships do and do not exist. Instead, Gulas uses ONA, a procedure for mapping relationships among people in a group. In the ONA results, a group still fragmented by geography and constrained by hierarchy and other gaps in connectivity is seen by Gulas. The network is presented by the B case -building steps Gulas took on the basis of the ONA results and the results of a follow up ONA Gulas ran two years after the initial evaluation. This second ONA revealed a network that was more suitably connected and stronger in various manners.
PUBLICATION DATE: January 12, 2009 PRODUCT #: UV1100-PDF-ENG
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