Patent ID: 8631021

Claim:
A method of generating a visual representation of a structure of an organization of humans, the method comprising: receiving data from a plurality of users, the data defining a plurality of organizational relationships between organizational roles to be undertaken by members of the organization, said receiving including at least receiving data from a first user defining a first organizational relationship between organizational roles and receiving data from a second user defining a second organizational relationship between organizational roles, wherein the data is received at a computer server from a plurality of network devices coupled to the computer server via a network, and wherein at least one of the organizational roles is common to both the first and second organizational relationships, and wherein at least one of the organizational relationships so defined is hierarchical, and wherein the organizational roles can each be filled by a member of the organization or unfilled and wherein an individual member of the organization can fill more than one organizational role; generating a structure of the organization from the data defining the plurality of organizational relationships, the structure having a plurality of connected nodes, wherein organizational roles are represented by nodes and relationships between these nodes are represented by connections between these nodes and wherein there is not a one-to-one correspondence of organizational roles to members of the organization; and displaying a visual representation of the structure.