Navigating and Measuring the New Org Chart
Seeing the Whole

Everyone gathers on field, mingling in familiar workgroups

As sun sets, seats glow in hue of functional colors while ribbons linking them light up and pulse in direction of arrows
CEO brings attention to emerging network display, and notes big differences in size of major organizational components that fan out behind senior leadership team seat
  • Two functions comparatively huge and extend many tiers more, invisible to senior leaders
  • Top leadership posts mostly limited to three front tiers, typically under-representing big functions
Encourages people to walk through tiers, look around from different vantage points, stopping at various seats to see what someone’s real responsibilities are
  • Next to each seat is post listing position’s basic network measures and distributions: level, size of sub-organization, span of direct and matrix reports, number of team member locations, number and type of links