7 Things Social Network Analysis Can Teach You About Your Collaborative – Visible Network Labs

Social network analysis has been around for many decades in academic circles, but it has only recently become a popular learning tool for networks and other collaboratives. For many decades we build partnerships and collaboratives largely based on gut and intuition, utilizing a ‘more is better’ mentality that suggests more partners and more integration will best help you reach your goals. 

However in practice, this approach quickly begins to strain your time and resources, depriving you of any collaborative advantage you may have gained from your networking. Network analysis provides insight to guide you, on both the whole-network level and for each individual partnership within it, helping you make more strategic networking decisions to drive social impact. Here are 9 specific things network analysis can teach you about your collaborative, coalition or network.