If your job involves managing organizations and processes, meeting budget estimates, and communicating project goals, read the following articles to learn how quickly and easily you can create Visio organization charts and flowcharts, and then print, post, or add them to presentations.

• Picture your processes with Visio 2002 flowcharts

  Use flowcharts to view a process at a glance and to analyze and improve your team's information flow. Enhance your flowchart by annotating it with details about each step.

• Identify cross-department dependencies with Visio 2002 flowcharts

  Use cross-functional flowcharts to capture the flow of a process among departments, or show how a process affects different functional units in an organization.

• Estimate process costs with Visio 2002 flowcharts

  Add data to flowcharts and then generate reports to determine how long processes take, the resources they require, how much they cost, and whether one process is more efficient than another.

• Create flexible organization charts with Visio 2002

  Set up organization charts so they are fast and easy to revise. Add data to turn an organization chart into a dynamic communication and management tool.

• Make Visio 2002 organization charts from personnel files

  Use the Organization Chart Wizard to automatically generate an organization chart from an electronic personnel data file or your Microsoft Exchange Server Directory.