Chapter 5. NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR ENGINEERING SMALL PRACTICE GROUPS
Barry Dayton
Organizational fragmentation and silos create huge challenges for large global companies. The integration of mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, downsizing, the mass retirement of Baby Boomers—to name just a few factors—cause business-critical knowledge to get stuck before it can reach those who really need it.
Ensuring the flow of information across organizational boundaries is a major challenge at 3M, which provides solutions to customers in more than 60 countries and hundreds of markets by making connections across more than 40 technology platforms. We have more than 50,000 products and approximately 40 market-facing divisions organized into six businesses. ...
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