Re: Aparantly somebody at HP has stolen Anders' idea

From: Bret Kulakovich (bret@bonfireproductions.com)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 08:55:59 MST

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    Not to mention that Lotus was doing this almost ten years ago with
    their Knowledge Management software...

    Bret Kulakovich

    >This reminds a lot of the graphs that Anders Sandberg produced from
    >the mailing list some months back:
    >
    >E-mail reveals real leaders
    >===========================
    >
    >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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