Business Networking Group
Providing powerful insights into the new ways people interact
Social networking is an international phenomenon that is changing the way people locally, nationally and internationally relate to one another, both within and across organisational boundaries. Understanding how your business can harness the potential of social networking can create new opportunities and deliver many benefits.
Supporting your business
Our social network analysis techniques allow a rigorous quantification of many aspects of relationships that at best - had been previously sensed intuitively. The business applications of social network analysis could help your business to:
- Improve information flows and knowledge-sharing
- Increase innovative capacity
- Build communities of practice
- Remove blockages to career progression
- Fast-track integration in mergers
- Enhance corporate governance
- Improve inter-organisational relationships
- Optimise value systems
- Measure intangible assets
- Align scale and scope.
Business Research Group services
We are able to apply the techniques of social network analysis to a wide range of business problems - reconceiving individual firms, organisations and markets as structured relationships. We also provide:
- Presentations to corporate audiences
- Short courses
- Training in software and analysis
- Problem-solving and software consultancy
- Certified postgraduate courses
- Commissioned research.
World-class credentials
Our team is at the forefront of their field. And it is here that you will find the largest concentration of Business Network Analysts anywhere in the UK. The world's leading social network analysis software, UCINET, was developed here by our very own Martin Everett, in association with Steve Borgatti at Boston College and Lin Freeman at UC Irvine. Applications are being further supported by theoretical development in dynamic systems.
Discover how our research, expertise and resources can support your business.