Building a strong professional network is not that hard, if you know the key principles. Acquaintances are the key: they know things you don’t know. Making new acquaintances is easy. Just remember that your brain is not your friend: it’s trying to keep you from being social. But fortunately, that’s easy to turn off.

The complexity of modern organisations are both a challenge and a big opportunity for improvement. In this article we discuss how you can improve the efficiency and resilience of any organisation by combining data with network analysis.