Finally, you must keep your org chart continually updated to reflect your dynamic, growing business. Then it’s time to choose an appropriate layout and build a professional diagram that meets internal, industry, and compliance standards. That means gathering a lot of data from every single place in the organization: names, titles, roles, email addresses, phone numbers-maybe even metadata on job tenure and career experience. HR professionals, COOs, and other operational leaders build org charts to illustrate and codify hierarchical relationships, reporting structures, employee and manager titles and rankings, and other aspects of an enterprise. As organizations grow, their organizational charts become more critical to the business-and also more complex and harder to maintain.
