cogmap.com: Wikipedia for organizational charts

Posted on | November 15, 2006 | No Comments

cogmap is definitely among the more interesting web-apps popping up these days. best described as ‘the Wikipedia for organization charts of real-life companies”, the application offers a graphical Wiki specialized in mapping of organizational hierarchies. using an AJAxified editor, contributors – weither they officially represent the mapped company or not – are invited to collaborate on charts. as rev2 points out, reliability of data is not always on par with reality. the AJAX-interface seems to be rather unresponsive, and MBAs might miss basic organizational elements like staff units.

No Inc, builders of cogmap, need to round off the featureset of what could evolve into a serious resource for business-research. for liable, up-2-date information, cogmap will probably need to implement functionality, allowing officially approved company-representatives to freeze in organizational structures. until this has happened, anybody can be CEO of Google for five minutes

 

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