the network science behind 'working like a network
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The Network Science Behind ‘Working Like a Network’Christian Buckley MVP + CMO at Beezy
Christian BuckleyChief Marketing Officer
@buckleyplanet
ITUnity.com/CollabTalk
www.buckleyplanet.com
Beezy is the premier enterprise collaboration solution for Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint, extending the feature set and improving the user experience for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments. We are on a mission to transform the way people work, and to help employees be more connected, innovative, and happy. Learn more at www.beezy.net or @FollowBeezy on Twitter.
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!