Centre for Business Network Analysis
Organisational Network Analysis is providing powerful insights into the ways people relate to one another within and across organisational boundaries. The techniques allow a rigorous quantification of many aspects of relationships that have previously at best been sensed intuitively.
The Centre for Business Network Analysis is applying the techniques of organisational network analysis to a wide range of business problems, reconceiving individual firms, organisations and markets as structured relationships. We provide:
- Presentations to corporate audiences
- Short courses
- Training in software and analysis
- Problem-solving and software consultancy
- Certified postgraduate courses
- Commissioned research
The University of Greenwich has the largest concentration of business network analysts in the UK. The world’s leading social network analysis software, UCINET, was developed by Martin Everett here, in association with Steve Borgatti at Boston College and Lin Freeman at UC Irvine. Applications are being further supported by theoretical development in dynamic systems.
Business Applications of social network analysis include:
- Improving information flows and knowledge-sharing
- Increasing innovative capacity
- Building communities of practice
- Removing blockages to career progression
- Fast-track integration in mergers
- Better corporate governance
- Improving inter-organisational relationships
- Optimising value systems
- Measuring intangible assets
- Aligning scale and scope
- Delivering shared services
Forthcoming Events
Dec 2, 2011. Dr Santi Furnari, City University, Interstitial Brokers and Institutional Change: The Transposition of Frank Gehry as the New Icon of Chicago’s Public Architecture. Hamilton House 11am-1pm.
Dec 9, 2011. Dr. Paola Zappa, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, An Application of SNA to the European Money Market. Hamilton House 11am-12pm.
Dec 9, 2011. Dr. David Dekker, University of Greenwich,Transitivity and Network Distributions. Hamilton House 12pm - 1pm.
Jan 9-13, 2012. Winter School in Analytical Software, University of Greenwich, London.
Jan 25 – Mar 29, 2012. Business Networks – a 10 week course providing an overview of the network concept in business, together with an introduction to the UCINET for the analysis of Business Networks.
Past - 2011
Nov. 25, 2011. Dr. Elisa Belloti, University of Manchester. Qualitative Analysis of Social Networks. Hamilton House 11am-1pm.
Nov 11, 2011. Dr. Tore Opsahl, Imperial College London. Modeling the evolution of continuously-observed networks: Communication in a Facebook-like community.
Oct 14, 2011. Prof. Jeff Johnson, East Carolina University, Accuracy in Cognitive Social Networks: Implications for Influence, Power and Well-being.
Sept 23,2011. Prof. Ron Burt, University of Chicago. Network Volatility and Advantage in Banking.
March 11, 2011. Prof. David Krackhardt, Carnegie Mellon University. Network Implementation Theory: An Approach to Efficient Organisational Change.
March 4, 2011. Prof. Tom Valente, University of Southern California. Network Intervention: Progress and Prospects for Accelerating Behavioural Change.
January 14th, 2011. Prof. Emanuelle Lazega, Universite Paris-Dauphine. Multi-level Networks.