Nonprofit Organizational Assessment

Bolman and Deal lay out these frames in their book Reframing Organizations: Artistry,
Choice and Leadership the authors also provide many examples of how best to apply
their four frames analysis.
Organizational Network Analysis
Organizational network analysis (ONA) is a method for studying communication within a
formal organization to make invisible patterns of information flow and collaboration in
strategically important groups visible. The method is applied by first mapping the
relationships among people, tasks, groups, knowledge and resources of organizational
systems. Then, analyzing the collected data with a social network analysis software in
order to find organic clusters, opinion leaders, peripheral and bridging actors, indirect
relations that are otherwise invisible.
Organizational Strategy
Organizational Strategies and Structure
"An organization can be said to have a strategy when the leaders and the organization
as a whole have committed themselves to a particular vision of how the organization will
operate to create value and sustain itself in the immediate future"
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