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How Network Analytics Can Help Us Avoid Digital Fatigue
The working from home (WFH) mandate has inspired a love-hate relationship in many of us. What we lose in our daily commutes, we gain in digital fatigue. Too many ZOOM meetings, too much time online, too many demands are all common complaints. I previously wrote about digital overload, noting activity levels alone do not indicate overload.
Identification of Enterprise Social Network (ESN) Group Archetypes in ESN Analytics
With the proliferation of Enterprise Social Networks (ESN), the measurement of ESN activity becomes increasingly relevant. The emerging field of ESN analytics aims to develop metrics and models to measure and classify user activity to support organisational goals and outcomes. In this paper we focus on a neglected area of ESN analytics, the classification of activity in ESN groups.
Peace Data Standard: A Practical and Theoretical Framework for Using Technology to Examine Intergroup Interactions
The current paper presents a theoretical framework for standardizing Peace Data as a means of understanding the conditions under which people’s technology use results in positive engagement and peace.
Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Tell Fact From Fiction?
It sounds paradoxical: can something artificial help us understand what's real and what isn't? Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are pinning their hopes on this possibility in their fight against "fake news”.
We’ve Disrupted the Formal Organisation: But what does it look like now?
Digital disruption, Holocracies, Wirearchies are attacking the formal hierarchy as we had come to know it. While we might accept that the formal hierarchy is becoming less reflective of how work is getting done, it still reflects how senior executives are designing for work to be done.
The Doctor Is In: Practicing Enterprise ‘Social Radiology’
As we become increasingly consumed in our digital world, a common question we hear is “does our online behavior mimic how we are offline?”
How Social Network Analysis (SNA) Combats the Tyranny of Top Down
We are prompted to write this post by Gary Hamel’s excellent exposition on “Leaders Everywhere”, together with some recent SNA work we have been conducting that speaks directly to the thesis around developing leaders at all levels of the organisation. This also builds on our previous paper 'Tyranny of Top Down'.