From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 06:58:43 MST
This reminds a lot of the graphs that Anders Sandberg produced from the
mailing list some months back:
E-mail reveals real leaders
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http://www.nature.com/nsu/030317/030317-5.html
Want to know how your organization really works - who speaks to whom,
who holds the power? Then study the flow of internal e-mail, say
scientists at global technology firm Hewlett-Packard.
The researchers have developed a way to use e-mail exchanges to build a
map of the structure of an organization. The map shows the teams in
which people actually work, as opposed to those they are assigned to.
The technique can also reveal who is at the heart of each sub-group.
These people often correspond with company-designated leaders such as
project managers. But unofficial de facto leaders can also emerge. The
approach might even help to pinpoint the heads of criminal or terrorist
networks.
-- hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark http://www.futureport.dk/ Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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