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Has the related question been studied - business costs of not doing SNA?
e.g. internal audit, external audit and market oversight viz. Enron. How
much was legitimate research of "electronic markets" at other companies
harmed by fraud at the largest examplar of e-markets? Some departments of
Enron did innovate, their value was vaporized by actions of neighboring
departments. Could they have seceded or otherwise hedged?
SNA improves risk analysis in "new business" cases, by identifying
non-obvious topology in emerging markets. Defensive techniques include
pre-emptive branding to differentiate new entrant from failed player. How
is firm or brand value (quantified by market) related to network identity
vs. product identity? Addition and subtraction of assets on a balance
sheet did not account for the network topology of those assets. How will
asset topology be made visible to market metrics, so topologies have their
own markets?
From http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,805354,00.html :
(via robotwisdom)
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"... In late eighteenth-century France more than 250,000 different units of
weights and measures were in use. It was decided by the think-tanks of the
First Republic that the reform of the weights-and-measures system around a
single unit would streamline the economy, improve prosperity and hasten the
onset of equality and freedom. How, though, was a measure to be found that
would be sufficiently impartial to conform to the Revolution's
egalitarianism? It was decided 'to derive the fundamental unit of this
utopian world from the measure of the world itself'.
And so in June 1792, just as the Terror was beginning to crank into its
dreadful gear, two eminent French astronomers set out in opposite
directions from Paris. Their aim was to measure the distance of the
meridian arc between Dunkirk and Barcelona: once obtained, this distance
would be divided by 10 million to give a definitive and utterly impartial
length for the new metre. Pierre M~chain travelled south to Barcelona,
while Jean-Baptiste Delambre went north to Dunkirk. The savants were to
work towards each other, reunite in the middle of France, do their sums and
present the revolutionary government with the most classless unit of
measurement conceivable. The whole business was to take them no more than a
year ..."
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If SNA provides new metrics for "business cases", standard metrics will
speed adoption.
Rich
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