Patent ID: 8898141

Claim:
A method for information management comprising: providing an organizational directory comprising hierarchical information regarding an organization, the hierarchical information including an organizational structure having a plurality of hierarchical connections between members of the organization, the hierarchical connections including connections between members at different hierarchical levels of the organization, the different hierarchical levels including different management levels; receiving, by at least one computer, relationship data derived at least from an email log and an internet web log, the relationship data including an association of a first person to a second person; querying, by the at least one computer, the organizational directory and the relationship data to identify a third person, wherein the third person is a member of the organization and identifying the third person comprises determining a short path between the first person and the third person in an association network, the short path including the second person; and causing, by the at least one computer, display of a result of the querying, the result including the short path between the first and third persons, attributes associated with the third person, and a score assigned to the short path.