Organizational Network Analysis

How understanding organizational network complexity can help you accelerate organizational change

Organizations are living breathing organisms. Full of life! People with feelings and emotions interacting with each other. Simultaneously, change is happening all the time. In the internal structures and in the outside environment. Requiring the organization to adapt to survive.

Traditionally, the solution would be drive the needed changes top-down. Through the hierarchy. Through the structures. Through processes and procedures. Slowly turning the organization, if at all.

But organizations of today need to change faster and more often to survive. The rigid structural way of thinking cannot handle this. The organizational chart does not reflect the real organization anymore. In 2005 10% of the work was done outside people’s own box in the organizational chart. Today, it is more than 90% of the work as people work much more across and outside their own little function.

Succeeding in such an environment requires a different approach to change management. A networked approach. People make sense of changes trough conversations with their trusted peers. At the water cooler. In the parking lot. In the lunch break. But who are those trusted peers? 3% of them shape the perceptions of up to 90% of their colleagues, so they are extremely important to know.

In this interactive session you will learn about the 3% rule and its relevance to change. You will learn about the theory, discuss its application to your own organization, and hear practical examples from some of the world’s leading companies.

The session will be led by Jeppe Vilstrup Hansgaard, the CEO of Innovisor, a global leader in the practical application of organizational network diagnostics and algorithmic thinking to the change management discipline. He has gained his +20 years of practical experience in Asia, Europe, and the US from organizations, such as LEGO, BP, UN, and Caterpillar. He has been featured in Wall Street Journal, BBC, and Forbes. Jeppe – a citizen of Denmark – has earned his MBA from Henley Business School in UK, which he has supplemented with executive courses from Stanford School of Professional Development in USA.

This seminar will be delivered in English.