Organizational Network Analysis

What is ONA?

Everyone is familiar with the organization chart that displays who works where and who reports to whom. However, today's companies do not operate in that static environment. Instead, we need insight into how the organization really works. Organization Network Analysis is a fancy name for a way of finding out who knows who in a company and who knows what. The result is a crystal clear graphic immediately comprehensible to anyone. The company can immediately see how (and through whom) information flows through the organization. To make this clear to you, here is a very simple example of a typical kite chart that shows the ONA for a department.