Skip to content

References: Recognition, Alignment, and Innovation

  1. Innovation - Wikipedia - Covers innovation theory, processes, and organizational factors that enable or inhibit creative output. Provides context for understanding how cross-boundary network connections drive idea generation and recombination.

  2. Strategic Alignment - Wikipedia - Frameworks for ensuring organizational activities, resources, and communication patterns correspond to declared strategic objectives. Directly applicable to the graph-based alignment analysis in this chapter.

  3. Employee Recognition - Wikipedia - Overview of formal and informal recognition practices and their impact on engagement and retention. Provides context for using graph analytics to surface hidden achievements and unrecognized contributions.

  4. The Hidden Power of Social Networks - Rob Cross and Andrew Parker - Harvard Business Review Press (2004) - Chapter 6 covers how network-aware recognition and strategic interventions can improve collaboration, break silos, and align informal networks with strategic goals.

  5. Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition - Ronald Burt - Harvard University Press (1992) - Burt demonstrates that innovation and competitive advantage flow from boundary-spanning positions that bridge structural holes. Core theory for the ideation tracking and innovation metrics in this chapter.

  6. Diffusion of Innovations - Wikipedia - Rogers' theory of how ideas spread through social networks via innovators, early adopters, and majority. Applicable to tracing idea flow patterns and identifying innovation catalysts in organizational graphs.

  7. Diversity and Inclusion - Wikipedia - Covers DEI concepts and measurement approaches. Relevant to the centrality equity analysis that examines whether diverse employees occupy central vs. peripheral positions in organizational networks.

  8. Balanced Scorecard - Wikipedia - Strategic management framework linking organizational activities to strategic objectives across financial, customer, process, and learning perspectives. Provides context for alignment measurement approaches.

  9. Idea Management - Wikipedia - Processes and systems for capturing, evaluating, and implementing ideas across an organization. Background for the graph-based ideation tracking that follows ideas through contributor networks.

  10. The Strength of Weak Ties (Granovetter, 1973) - Wikipedia - Granovetter's foundational insight that novel information flows through weak inter-group ties explains why boundary-spanning connections are the primary channels for organizational innovation.