Item: OrgMapper
Rating: 10
Author: Chuck Smalley

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

OrgMapper was used in several leadership team building contexts, each team providing leadership to a business department. It was used to provide data around the relational networks that exist in the team. The visualizations helped to provide data that created a more robust understanding of where the relationships were strong and where there were opportunities for improvement.

Pros and Cons

It is very easy to implement. A web based tool that leverages a simple survey is how the data is gathered.
The outputs via visualizations are very powerful and communicate with great impact to an audience.
The administrative interface is very powerful and provides many options to display the outputs,

The administrative interface takes some getting used to. I am told that the next version, coming out in February 2016, will have a much more user friendly interface.

Return on Investment

We really feel that OrgMapper accelerated the process of building a better leadership team by identifying strengths in existing relationships and clearly identified places where relationships needed to be further strengthened.

Alternatives Considered

We had not found any other tool that demonstrated the power of Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) like OrgMapper.

Other Software Used

Google Drive

Likelihood to Recommend

It is designed to have the different modules work for different scenarios. The Team Mapper module is designed for smaller groups, while the remaining modules work best in larger engagements.