Magus Networker
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Developing great organisations ...
 ... in a sea of change
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"While the informal structure was undoubtedly important in the traditional organisation, today it dominates."
(Champy J, Nohria N, Fast Forward 1996 HBSP, Boston)

Magus Networker ~ uses state-of-the-art technology for mapping informal networks in organisations. But Networker is more than just a piece of technology. The Networker methodology comprises a complete consulting process, for delivering fast, healthy change to client organisations

All Networker applications are custom-configured to target client-specific, priority business performance challenges, with web-based data collection to speed the application process. Common targets are productivity; innovation; and programme management. There is a page with examples of successful Networker applications, and another of some sample case studies.

Magus Networker:

  • Enables hidden constraints on organisational performance to be surfaced, and innovative solutions to be developed and implemented
  • Releases talent for innovation to be targeted on key business priorities and programmes
  • Enables client organisations to realise an increased pay-back from their investment in people

Magus Networker is a methodology that helps organisations reveal and understand informal networks amongst employees.  These employees may be hidden treasures or hidden time bombs.  Many current analytical tools are unable to spot the patterns of behaviour these employees generate.

Magus Networker taps into research on how innovation is enabled and supported. It focuses on the major source of innovation, informal networks of people resolving problems across formal boundaries. Informal networks are volatile, self-organising groups that typically form and operate to tackle current business priorities.

The Networker process design enables large numbers of people to be engaged in the identification of performance constraints and their causes; it stimulates open dialogue on issues, causes and actions; the change process begins immediately, and there is little, if any, resistance to change.

Innovative solutions target products and services; processes and practices; quality and outputs; and business models and resource distribution.

The outcome is the initiation of a process of ongoing developmental change. This process taps into the latent talent and energy that is present in all organisations. It means that the organisation gets a greater return on its intellectual capital and know-how.

In turn, that means developing an organisation that constantly adapts to a changing environment. In such organisations, everyone is a player, and there is a good balance between the need to operate successfully in the short term, and the need to develop and adapt for longer term survival and growth.

For some screen-shots illustrating how Magus Networker graphical reports illuminate informal networks and stimulate focused dialogue, please click on the image to the right.

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For a quick introduction to the concept of informal networks, please click on the image to the right

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For a short presentation on why informal networks are critical to performance management, and a description of one example Networker application, please click on the image to the right

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