Benefit Corporation (B Corp) Company Organogram

Explore the design of a Benefit Corporation through a company organogram. This guide offers insights and examples on crafting your own chart. Show the structure of your business in a clear, visual format.

What is a B Corp Company Organogram?

A B Corp company organogram is a visual representation of the company of a benefit corporation. It shows the company of the benefit corporation in a vertical layout, detailing the relationships between different elements. There three broad categories of org charts: company structure charts, management charts, and hierarchy charts. A B Corp company organogram is a type of company structure chart.

Why Use a B Corp Company Organogram?

The organogram can serve a variety of uses. Common use cases include due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, compliance, and governance. Instead of a single organogram, you can create variations with different labels and data for specific purposes.

This chart is made with Lexchart for automatic organization charts.

How to Create a B Corp Company Organogram?

Before creating a organogram there are several important considerations. B Corp company organograms differ from management org charts in important ways. The number of items, connections and layout are orders of magnitude more complex. It is imperative to work with org chart software that is designed to handle that complexity.

There are fundamentally two ways to create a benefit corporation company organogram: from scratch or from a data import.

Creating a Benefit Corporation Company Organogram from Scratch

Each application has its own way of creating a organogram from scratch. Lexchart has a powerful chart tool which makes the process simple.

Importing Data to Create a Benefit Corporation Company Organogram

Importing data is an efficient way to create a organogram. Lexchart supports importing data from CSV, which is available in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets and most spreadsheet and database applications. The data should be structured as a series of pairwise relationships between a parent and child (subsidiary) entity.

Next Steps

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