Mapping System with Attributes

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jun 16, 2021 at 04:39 PM

Hi,

If I understand correctly, what you want to develop is a model of your company, including quantitative data flows between people / teams / departments.

I see several different routes of varying complexity and functionality that you can take:

- A set of spreadsheets, each of which represents a business entity being fed from / feeding to others; a summary sheet would provide the bird’s eye view.

- A dedicated business modelling software solution, from dynamic Business Model Canvas to much more detailed tools.

- An agile approach, such as Kanban, to visualise and manage the business processes and flows in a pragmatic manner

- An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform bringing together all day-to-day work (this could take ages to set up and in the meantime your company may have changed!)

Does any of the above sound as what you want?

There are mind mapping tools that include calculated fields, but I would advise against them in the context of a business, as in my view they don’t scale well and are not great for collaboration.

Cheers,
Alexander

Matt Harwood wrote:
>I’m looking for a solution to visually be able to map every part of our
>business, the processes, the data sources, the job roles and people, and
>including data that links them together. For example, a process for a
>sales person to make a sale depends on certain data being available,
>which depends on someone else adding and validating that data. If that
>data changes, we need a way to know what the knock-on effects might be
>in other parts of the business.