Tuesday 28 January 2014

Searching The Official Board

I found an interesting website the other day that I have had a play around with. It seems to contain pretty much accurate top level org charts (although I would take the reporting lines with a large pinch of salt!) for a large number of companies. Having been using it we've found that it has been mostly accurate in terms of people and a large number of these weren’t available via LinkedIn or similar websites. We identified a large number (150+) of people across multiple countries and 10 companies with only 3 or 4 not being within their organisations.

The website is www.theofficialboard.com and it contains a large number of org charts for a lot of large corporates across the world. When you look at organisational structures within this a most of the names are obscured though their titles are not.
As such you can chuck in a quick search to uncover the names for each position:
site:theofficialboard.com Company Name Job Title
For example on: 
You will see there’s a Business Process Outsourcing Director whose initials are P and G.
To search this you could enter into Google:
site:theofficialboard.com Accenture UK Business Process Outsourcing Director
The first link shows Peter George in the News section of the website, the second link points to Peter’s bio.
It’s not flawless but it seems to be pretty useful for high level searches across the world.

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