New Org Chart for a New Year
New Org Chart for a New Year Don’t waste another hour or day in the new year manually updating an org chart in Visio, PowerPoint, or other charting tool. Stop staring at the spreadsheet or tables in your HRIS system trying to visualise your organisation and use software specifically designed [...]
Using OrgChart Templates
Using OrgChart Templates Implementing and customising the templates built into OrgChart can help manage organisational charts company-wide. OrgChart has 15+ templates to choose from which can easily be customised with company logos and color schemes to keep them consistent across the entire organisation. Our templates also represent a spectrum [...]
Managing Dotted Line Relationships
Managing Dotted Line Relationships Often companies are traditionally structured into functional silos (i.e, manufacturing, finance, sales, etc.) and the hierarchy is well-defined. Each silo manages its own area of responsibility and work is passed in a linear fashion from one silo to another, much like an auto assembly line [...]
Why Diversity and Inclusion Matter
Why Diversity and Inclusion Matter The topics of diversity and equity are at center stage of the corporate world right now. The conversation has been simmering for decades but came to a noticeable boiling point in recent years with the “Black Lives Matter”movement in the U.S. sparking tens of [...]
Collaborative Planning Module
OrgChart Now's Collaborative Planning Module For successful workforce planning, multiple stakeholders must collaborate to ensure the optimal outcome for an organisation. Modern org charts can provide a clear visual representation of a company's present state as well as a planned future state. Crucial to this process of [...]
OrgCharts for Strategic Planning
Org Charts as a strategic tool Typically the information on an org chart is limited to name, title and department. These charts are sometimes maintained in simple drawing software such as PowerPoint and Visio and are limited to giving a static snapshot of the structure of an organisation. As [...]
Project Allocation Org Charts
Project Allocation Org Charts Automated charts for project-based organizational structures Pendo, a company with notable customers such as Salesforce, Coupa, Gainsight, BMC, and Sprinklr, found in a study that up to 80% of the features in enterprise cloud software products are rarely or never used. At OfficeWork Software, we believe [...]
Retirement and Succession…
Retirement and Succession Planning The process of identifying younger talent to fill vacant positions is commonly referred to as succession planning. Progressive businesses, both big and small, can’t afford to wait until the moment senior members of their staff announce their retirements to start planning replacements. .The benefits of [...]
Span of Control is Important
Why Span of Control is Important What is span of control? When examining organisational structure, span of control is an important metric to understand. Simply, span of control refers to the number of employees under a manager’s direct control (i.e. a manager with five direct reports has a span [...]
Blindsided by Talent Gaps
At a time when businesses are reevaluating the composition of their workplaces we’re revisiting this client story which first appeared in the March 2016 edition of IHRIM’s Workplace Solutions Review. By Joe Kollinger A unique visualisation of the workforce gave one of our clients advance warning of talent gaps [...]
