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Organizational Network Analysis
Food for Thought…

2. 2
Taking a Network’s Pulse
Understanding networks in terms of:
– 1) Structure and connectivity
– 2) Network “health” (activeness)
– 3) Outcomes/ achievements

3. 3
1) Structure and connectivity

4. 4
http://www.fmsasg.com/SocialNetworkAnalysis/

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Network “health” (activeness)
Functionality of internal network relations
Membership—growing? How?
Proportion of active members of network
Degree of participation of members in
management and strategic planning of network
Diversity of entities in the network

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3) Outcomes/ achievements
 Higher level outcomes
 Intermediate indicators that look at
incremental changes
o Coalition building
o Advocacy
o Shared accountability
o Trust and support

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Net-Map
Photos from: http://netmap.wordpress.com/about/
Net-Map helps players to determine:
 what actors are involved in a given
network
 how they are linked
 how influential they are
 what their goals are

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