User interface for displaying multiple organizational hierarchies

摘要

A graphical user interface that displays organizational structure information associated with a business organization having multiple organizational units includes structural unit indicators and connectors. Each structural unit indicator represents a structural unit of the business organization and includes one or more business character indicators. Each business character indicator represents one of multiple business characters. Each connector is associated with two and only two structural unit indicators and represents a hierarchical relationship. The hierarchical relationship has a hierarchy type and exists between the two structural unit indicators. One of the structural unit indicators corresponds to a subordinate structural unit and another of the structural unit indicators corresponds to a superordinate structural unit. At least one of the connectors represents a hierarchical relationship of a first hierarchical type, and at least one of the connects represents a hierarchical relationship of a second hierarchical type that differs from the first hierarchical type.