Rooted Advisory Group
Organizational Network Analysis
Harness the power of your networks for superior performance
About ONA
What is Organizational
Network Analysis?
Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) is a structured, algorithmic approach to illustrating how collaboration and information flows throughout an organization.
As companies navigate new challenges and an ever-increasing rate of change, effectively aligning individual and collective actions with strategic objectives is more important than ever.
ONA provides a data-driven approach to visualizing how individuals, teams, and departments within your company collaborate and are connected to one another. Our comprehensive assessment provides visibility into the informal networks and communication patterns that are heavily relied upon, but often go unidentified through traditional discovery.
About Rooted ONA
How does Rooted ONA work?
ONAs are performed differently depending on the organization offering the service and the organization receiving the service. At Rooted, we break ONA into two different processes: Active ONA and Passive ONA.
Culture & Influencer Assessment
Relationship-based assessments collect quantitative and qualitative data to derive insight from a unique, individual perspective. These analyses allow for data on employee’s levels of Knowledge, Innovation, Support, or any other metrics relevant to the organization.
Collaboration Data Analysis
Effortlessly gathering insights from your everyday tools like Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, our ONA techniques analyze over 20 network metrics behind-the-scenes. Gain a unique perspective on your organization with ease, and without any disruption.
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What are the benefits of performing a Network Analysis?
By visualizing collaboration data, leaders gain unparalleled insight into the relationships and interactions that are critical to:
Identify Hi-Po’s without Bias
ONA allows leaders to identify valuable, culturally influential, and other high performance (Hi-Po) team members that are often missed with traditional strategies and tactics.
Optimize Communication Flow
Visualizing all formal and informal networks alongside unbiased organizational culture data, allows leaders to improve communication and collaboration to form relationships more intentionally.
Reduce Bottlenecks
By understanding the various aspects of the organization’s information flow, you will have the insights needed to alleviate congestion from organizational and managerial bottlenecks.
Enhance Engagement, Collaboration and Innovation
Using network data to eliminate obstacles within complex processes will deliver uninhibited collaboration and increased communication, giving teams autonomy to innovate freely.
Breakdown Operational and Strategic Silos
Rooted makes it easy to identify teams or communities in the organization that are more or less connected than others, or where potential silos may be inhibiting desired cross-functional collaboration.
Streamline Workflow Processes and Operations
Gaining insight into how your organization is actually operating is a pivotal step in building more efficient processes and enabling success across the enterprise.
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What does an typical ONA engagement look like?
Think of ONA as placing your organization under a business network MRI machine. It provides an in-depth examination of your internal collaboration dynamics free of bias, revealing insights that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Step 1
Data Gathering & Assessment Design
To begin, we will discuss your specific goals and any problem(s) you are trying to solve, allowing us to customize our approach to your organization.
Brief surveys will be administered to the selected audience (taking between 15-20 min. each) for the culture and influencer assessment. The necessary data connections to map your communication networks and analyze collaboration data will also be made during this step.
Step 2
Network Analysis
Next, we will turn your network data into a robust visualization and interpret the results to evaluate the efficiency of collaboration between individuals, teams, & organizations.
This is where we begin to identify the most influential people in your organization, see where bottlenecks may have formed, begin to identify those employees on the outskirts who need more access to key stakeholders, and over 20 other network variables.
Step 3
Future-State Roadmap
After a thorough assessment, we will share our analysis and findings along with a detailed plan to improve your company’s collaboration networks.
Leveraging the data from the ONA, leaders will have the insights needed and be empowered to operationalize the learnings for long-term improvement, ranging from operational efficiency to talent retention.
Step 4
Monitoring and Impact Assessment
At Rooted, we love to partner with our clients as they begin enhancing their networks.
In this final step, we will work with you to provide best-practices and guidance on your transformation journey. Additionally, we can provide follow up analysis of your network to monitor progress and assess impact, if needed.
Rooted Values
Our values help guide us towards a brighter future.
Our vision is to redefine the standards of consulting by removing traditional barriers that prevent organizations from accessing professional services, while cultivating an environment rooted in the well-being of our people and partners.
Professionalism
In a landscape where professional discipline and common decency often yield to quick fixes and diluted advice, Rooted stands as a beacon of change.
We stay grounded in our commitment, upholding unwavering ethical standards and delivering top-tier solutions our clients can trust and depend on.
Intentionality
“The quality of being deliberate or purposeful; involving conscious, thoughtful, and purpose-driven nature of actions or thoughts.”
We do not offer cookie-cutter solutions or push unnecessary services; our commitment is to address your problem intentionally. Each solution we design is carefully crafted to meet your unique needs.
Empathy
Rooted in a family-first approach, we prioritize placing people at the forefront change—a foundational aspect to creating any high performing organization.
Technology and software are evolving daily, our unwavering focus remains on fostering happy, reliable, and productive teammates, recognizing their irreplaceable value.
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