text: any suggestionson how to n/w with people in diff. groups in ur company, when u don't get to interact withthem? i am an electrical design engineer working in a semiconductor firm, but want to move to finance/marketing in the same area ...turns out that the design and marketing jobs and people are absolutely disconnected from each other in the industry i am in ..any ideas on how can i develop relationships with people whom i don't know/get to interact with (even the get-togethers are different for different teams!)..? for some unavoidable reasons ...don't have an option to leave my job and go do an mba .......any suggestions ..? e-mail.    if your company is one of the multitudes that uses an exchange based e-mail system, then everyone who logs in to the network with their computer has a unique id.  find out who's who in the department and check up on events in their area.  if they finish a project or achieve a goal shoot them a quick e-mail congratulating them.  doesn't have to be anything fancy, just a small introduction along with a congratulatory praise.  this also holds true if they hire a new employee in that section.  find their e-mail address sin the system and send them a quick "welcome" message.