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Published online 20 March 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030317-5
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E-mail reveals real leaders
Network analysis maps companies' informal structure.
Want to know how your organization really works - who speaks to whom, who holds the power? Then study the flow of internal e-mail, say scientists at global technology firm Hewlett-Packard.
The researchers have developed a way to use e-mail exchanges to build a map of the structure of an organization.
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