IMPLEMENTING MANAGEMENT OF ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE ELEMENTS

摘要

An information management solution is disclosed that overcomes drawbacks associated with the ability of traditional hierarchy structures to support complex organizational structures. The information management solution uniquely implements a two-level entity associating map for depicting relationships between entities of a group of entities. A first level of the two-level entity association map has units is a one-dimensional layer comprising organizational entities and a second level of the two-level entity associating map is a multi-dimensional level comprising organizational entities to which organizational entities of the first level have a direct association. An entity type of any first-level entity is different than an entity type of any second-level entity.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by at least one computer, information defining a plurality of first-level entities, wherein each one of the first-level entities defines a respective entity within a group of associated entities; receiving, by the at least one computer, information defining a plurality of second-level entities, wherein each one of the second-level entities defines a respective entity within the group of associated entities; receiving, by the at least one computer, information defining associations between the first and second level entities, wherein the associations indicate that each one of the first-level entities is directly associated with only one or more of the second-level entities and that each one of the second-level entities is directly associated with only one or more of the first-level entities; and creating, by the at least one computer, a visual depiction of the entities and the association therebetween, wherein the associations between the first-level and second-level entities are depicted for indicating that each one of the first-level entities is directly associated with only one or more of the second-level entities and that each one of the second-level entities is directly associated with only one or more of the first-level entities.