Accountability maps depict the departmental and reporting structure of your organization. Create Accountability maps to depict how the levels of your organization integrate to form a cohesive reporting structure. Typical high level business areas include departments such as Finance, Operations, Manufacturing, and Human Resources to which you can link teams, tasks forces, or individual employees. For example, business areas for Administration and Accounting departments report to Finance, and Employee Services reports to Human Resources.
If your organization is very large, create Accountability maps for each distinct area or domain. For example, using the sample organization shown above, you could create maps for these departments:
Accountability map elements that you create are automatically represented by members in the Accountability system dimension. This means that Accountability maps can serve as measure templates, enabling you to generate dimensional measures based on the reporting structures that you define using Accountability maps. SeeCreating Scorecards Based on Maps.
Link maps to create an overall corporate accountability structure. See Linking Maps.