Power of Social Networks (Aka Jugaad baazi?)

Sreekanth K Arimanithaya: Extremely insightful concept of SNA. I have seen some articles from Santhosh Babu, who talked about ONA and his ONA engine, OrgLens! You guys are experts in this discipline, so bear with me for me being out of place at times.

I see three entities here when we talk about the power or exponential power of the ONA/SNA, first is the Tool and the discipline governing it!
Second is the agency using the tool and third are the beneficiaries or the guinea pigs!
-Unfortunate fact is that we have several HR leaders who talked about SNA/ONA and the tools to measure it's impact, we have not seen use cases, success stories shared by the same set of pundits!
600 HR and few non HR folks have obtained OD certifications from TISS as program gets orchestrated by Santosh Babu's firm! But have not been lucky to relish any such sponsored and celebrated OD intervention programs any of those graduates took and shared for the community to benefit. They all become certificates to decorate drawing room walls and for padding up resumes.
The largest and most democratic and highly globalized network that we got is through LinkedIn, but how 90% use it is seen as an opportunity to seek favor to lap a job offer..
Nearly 90% of our connections are dead and non responsive. A celebrated CLO of Wipro, who was recently Head of Learning at a large IT firm in Redmond for sometime, has 850K followers on LinkedIn and his engagement rate is millionth time less...
One of my previous colleagues from an American Power Electronics companies, who also worked for other big IT firs as HRBP etc., reached out to me on LinkedIn a few years back and told me, which will tell you the reality of network seekers: Hey, I have started to look out so thought of being active on LinkedIn. With 20 years of career, she may have hardly a post on LinkedIn and almost no engagement, but wait, she is back to the same American-French firm as Director today, all because of her network! :)
GHRC networks must be meritocratic and shall follow the principles of Fair, Transparent, Open network, that keeps opportunists at bay!