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The Org Chart Is Dead

Written by Brandon Klein | Feb 29, 2016 6:37:26 PM

There’s a billion dollar opportunity in giving us what the org chart promised but never delivered. If Facebook is the social graph, we need an equally elegant solution to the organizational graph. This tool would be a living, breathing org chart — a dynamic network — combined with what I’m calling “GitHub for organizations.” What roles exist inside our companies? What rules? What policies? Who has authority? Even if the answer is “everybody” (heck, especially if it’s everybody) we need to know. We need a tool that helps us change those things, edit those things, and share those things inside and outside our companies— easily or automatically. Imagine if you could take your world-changing maternity/paternity policy and share it with a friend’s company with one click, like a developer sharing code on GitHub. Now imagine millions of companies sharing what’s working for them, seamlessly.