Putting a Price on Social Connections - BusinessWeek - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Jun 09
  

  Jane M

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• 02 Jun 09
  

  Bertrand Duperrin

  Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production

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  • Researchers at IBM Research and MIT's Sloan School of Management found that the average e-mail contact was worth $948 in revenue. To unearth that and other data, they used mathematical formulas to analyze the e-mail traffic, address books, and buddy lists of 2,600 IBM consultants over the course of a year.
  • To be sure, not all networking yields dividends. The IBM-MIT study found that consultants with weak ties to a number of managers produced $98 per month less than average. Why? Those employees may move more slowly as they process "conflicting demands from different managers," the study's authors write. They suffer from "too many cooks in the kitchen."
• 18 Apr 09
  

  Swarna Srinivasan

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  • The research, released this week, even assigns a dollar value to
    e-mail interaction with an employee's managers. Among the group studied, several
    thousand consultants at IBM, those with strong links to a manager produced an
    average of $588 of revenue per month over the norm.
  • Researchers at IBM Research and MIT's Sloan School of Management found that the
    average e-mail contact was worth $948 in revenue. To unearth that and other
    data, they used mathematical formulas to analyze the e-mail traffic, address
    books, and buddy lists of 2,600 IBM consultants over the course of a year.
    (Their identities were shielded from researchers, who viewed them only as
    encrypted numbers, known as hash codes.) They compared the communication
    patterns with performance, as measured by billable hours.
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  • • To be sure, not all networking yields dividends. The IBM-MIT study found that
      consultants with weak ties to a number of managers produced $98 per month less
      than average. Why? Those employees may move more slowly as they process
      "conflicting demands from different managers," the study's authors write. They
      suffer from "too many cooks in the kitchen."
• 14 Apr 09
  

  Emanuele Quintarelli

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• 09 Apr 09
  

  Ms. Rowley

  Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production

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• 08 Apr 09
  

  Lennie Symes

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  http://smallblue.research.ibm.com/publications/Utah-ValueOfSocialNetworks.pdf
  Workers who have strong communication ties with their managers tend to bring in more money than those who steer clear of the boss, according to a new analysi

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  Anne Bubnic

  Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production

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  • Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production
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