Monthly Archives: Jan 2019

How Startups Should Build their Organizational Charts?

Many young graduates want to join startups for different challenges and hope to get high returns. However, is that simple to do so? Every year over thousands of startups obtain venture capitals but unluckily, more than half of them fails. Therefore, it is important for startups to build well-structured and efficient organizational charts at the beginning of their business. Today, we will discuss more about this topic.

startup organizational charts template

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How to Create Family Tree Diagrams with Org Chart Software?

Do you know that you can even create your family tree diagram with organizational chart software? Simply read this article for the basic concept and benefits of a family tree diagram, and also how to create one quickly.

What is a Family Tree Diagram?

The family tree is a tree model that links people according to blood relationship or paternity relationship including ancestors and descendants. A typical family tree diagram can be divided into several levels in order to show family origins, family relationship, and members’ basic information.

family tree diagram example

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Game Company Organizational Chart – Introduction & Sample

Nowadays, online gaming holds huge potential for developers as well as investors. Also, online gaming has become a major part of the entertainment industry. So what is the organization structure of such a lucrative industry?  The chart below indicates an overview of a game company structure.

According to the above organizational chart, the game company is basically divided into four departments – Development Department, Marketing Department, HR & Administration Department, and Finance Department. Each department has further divisions that decentralize the functions.

game company org chart

Development Department

The basic task of a development team is to follow the concept and blueprint of the game and to build the game from zero to one. The programming team undertakes the game technological development, such as system maintenance, functions adding and improvements, system security, and system supports. The art and game content design team are responsible for building a virtual world in the game. With 3D and 2D designers, concept artists, they create everything in the game world, from characters, actions and architectures to plots, tasks and levels and so on. All in all, the development team is to bring the concept to reality.

development team

Marketing Department

The major job of the marketing team is to bring the game to the public view. They are responsible for the sales income and brand awareness. Generally speaking, they make promotion, campaign, and activities on online or offline platforms to draw people’s attention and encourage them to play the game and pay for it. Also, the customer service team need to deal with the problems and collect the data information for the development team for better improvements.

operation team

HR & Administration Department

The administrative work can encompass a wide variety of duties, such as general office management, assisting an employer, answering phones, speaking with clients, clerical work (including maintaining records and entering data), or a variety of other tasks. And the HR responsibilities include recruiting new employees, maintaining benefits and payroll, mediating conflicts, engaging in training and development, and keeping up to date with tax laws and labor laws.

Finance Department

The functions of a finance department mainly include planning, organizing, auditing, accounting for and controlling its company’s finances. The finance department also usually produces the company’s financial statements. Here is the finance department org chart.

finance department

Wanna Create Your Own Organizational Chart?

This org chart how-to guide would help you start from the very beginning and end up with a beautiful Org Chart quickly. It uses Edraw Max which allows you to design whatever style you want based on your personal requirements, and with presentation quality results.

edraw max for org chart

Alternatively, you can try more advanced human resource management functions by free download the easy org chart software – OrgCharting.

OrgCharting

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Visio Alternative Org Chart Software – Which one Should You Use?

It is commonly known that drawing an organizational chart can have many different ways, for example, by using MS Visio, PPT or Word. However, all of these tools are not specific org charting software so you may face the time-consuming process. Besides, MS Visio is not a standalone product so you have to purchase it separately at a high price. Today, we gonna check out together a good Visio alternative org chart software: the Edraw OrgCharting.

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