Many-to-Many relationships

Organization data is messy because it’s connected in complex ways.  Orgvue enables complex ‘Many-to-Many’ relationships to be visualized and analysed. 

What is a ‘many-to-many relationship’?

Many-to-many relationships are found when there are multiple possible connections across the organization. In the example of Talent Selection, there are:

• Many people in the ‘as-is’ organization; and
• Many positions in the ‘to-be’ organization.
• Many employees can be in consideration for a single position; and
• A single employee can be in consideration for many positions.

That's a lot of complexity to be managed.

How does Orgvue manage ‘many-to-many relationships’?

Links datasets enable the complexity of ‘many-to-many’ relationships to be managed and for connections to be visualized.   Unlike hierarchical datasets where every employee or position is a record, in a Links dataset every link is a record.  In the example of talent selection, every position an individual employee is in consideration for is a record.  This brings the ability to visualize the links for each position and for each employee:


Related articles:

• The different Orgvue Dataset types
• The value in linking People and Positions Datasets