The Network Science Behind 'Working Like a Network'

The Network Science Behind ‘Working Like a Network’Christian Buckley MVP + CMO at Beezy

Christian BuckleyChief Marketing Officer

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What does Microsoft mean when they say we should ‘Work Like a Network’?

We’ll come back to that question…

SharePoint Growth & Evolution

SharePoint Releases Metadata

Content

Collaboration has evolved

What have we learned?

“Collaboration” and “Social” are synonymous

Different teams gravitate toward different tools, different collaboration approaches

The next generation of employees

expect social to be ubiquitous

Collaboration is about finding the right “fit”

Mobility has become business-critical

Employees are better at self-monitoring than we thought

at self-

We need to try things, iterate, and innovate

The power of social is not about the technology at all

Success = People + Culture

People Process Technology

Ok, we got all that.

Now, why ‘Work Like a Network’?

In an article by Forbes contributor Michael Simmons (Why Being the Most Connected is a Vanity Metric), he shares some further insights from Ron Burt:A key insight from network science is the power of brokering, the act of

moving information from one group to another. Burt explains, “What a broker does is make a sticky information market more fluid. Great ideas will never move if we wait for them to be spoken in the same language.”Network brokers (i.e. – connectors) have three advantages:

• Breadth. They pull their information from diverse clusters.• Timing. While they may not be the first to hear information, they

are first to introduce information to another cluster.• Translation. They develop skills in translating one group’s

knowledge into another’s insight.Combined these three advantages give an individual an overall vision advantage to see, create, and take advantage of opportunities.

Christian BuckleyChief Marketing Officerand Office Servers and Services MVP

[email protected]@buckleyplanet/IN/ChristianBuckley

Thank you!