Building a Networked Organization: Restructuring the IT Department at MWH (B) Case Solution And Analysis, HBR Case Study Solution & Analysis of Harvard Case Studies

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. In the case of network-building measures is Gulas taken based on the results and the results of subsequent ONA Gulas ONA spent two years after the initial analysis. ONA is the second showed that the network was stronger and more properly connected differently. "Hide
by Rob Cross, Amy L. Halliday, Andrew Parker, Vic Gulas Source: Darden School of Business 7 pages. Publication Date: January 12, 2009. Prod. #: UV1100-PDF-ENG