Patent ID: 7668855

Claim:
A method for the development of a visual organizational representation, said method comprising the steps of: defining a plurality of different perspectives of the same organization, or part thereof, each perspective including a plurality of elements and wherein at least one of the elements is common to at least two of the perspectives; and generating for each of the perspectives a visual indication in the form of a graphical organizational model, each graphical organizational model showing the elements and interrelations between the same for that perspective and wherein the visual indication further includes, for each graphical organization model, a graphical information display panel in which those elements of the displayed organization model which are included in graphical organizational models for other perspectives of the organization are displayed and by selecting an element in the graphical information display panel the user can select to navigate to another of the said perspectives in which the selected element is included and cause the display of that graphical organizational model for the user selected other perspective, wherein the graphical information display panel changes dynamically depending on the status of the graphical organizational models at that time and automatically displays the current elements which appear in said models for other perspectives so as to allow user navigation to the other graphical organizational models for other perspectives which contain the selected elements at the time.