Super sourcers (and sales people) rejoice! Yep, here’s one that will have the Shally’s of the world foaming at the mouth.
Rubel outlines CogMap, a wiki that empowers anyone, employee or not, to create organizational charts for any company, big or small.
This is going to spook a lot of companies. Now, there’s no way to know if these org charts are accurate once you get beyond the executive suite. Still, as Wikipedia has showed us, once the network effect takes over, the quality of information may get a lot better. It would be great as CogMap ramps up to give companies a place to verify information – should they even wish to.
Org charts for Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft are already available.
Ahh, transparency.
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November 21st, 2006 at 7:30 pm
*drool*
Jeremy Langhans
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:28 am
Very cool. But completely unnecessary. Or, misguided. I would much rather have org charts auto-generated by Oracle/PeopleSoft (or) whatever from the generic HR package that houses ALL employee data.
Happy Thanksgiving, Joel, to you and yours. I love the blog.
November 27th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
But what about smaller companies. Not everybody as access to Oracle/PeopleSoft. I think that its kind of a cool idea.