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Using organizational memory directories to analyze networks
Author(s) -
Jansen van Rensburg Madri S.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
new directions for evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1534-875X
pISSN - 1097-6736
DOI - 10.1002/ev.385
Subject(s) - directory , computer science , key (lock) , reliability (semiconductor) , knowledge management , organizational memory , value (mathematics) , focus (optics) , data science , organizational learning , computer security , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , machine learning , optics , operating system
This chapter describes the value of organizational memory (OM) directories and networks to improve evaluations and monitoring activities with the use of a case study. Networking within and between organizations is considered increasingly important, and organizational memory and the directory of the memory are needed to access these networks and determine their influence. Networks—social and business—and the ability to document and map networks and their influence are progressively becoming generally more important, including in evaluation studies. Future focus on networks and OM will make it possible to identify key and more‐distant stakeholders and beneficiaries, and to examine the networks to enable reliability of impact evaluations. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc., and the American Evaluation Association