Org Chart - In Charge Feature

The In Charge feature in envisage makes it easy for managers to coordinate their team’s activities. 

Several weeks ago we made a significant change to the way the org chart works—we now have Hats, Posts and Members.

Each hat on the org chart can be assigned the “In Charge” of that area. This automatically grants the In Charge with edit permissions for all their juniors on the org chart. 

This makes it easy for a manager to view and update graphs, objectives and monitor their team’s performance.

This applies across the entire org chart, permitting every manager from the top to the bottom, to effectively manage.

It’s another vital feature that enables hyper-growth. 

The first step is having an org chart! If you need help creating your org chart in envisage, let us know, we can help create it for you! See our help docs for more information on Creating Hats and Adding Posts to the Org Chart.

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Easily compare this year to last year

Although you should track your stats on a weekly basis, it’s often good to know if you are beating last year’s performance.

You can do this using the Offset feature, now available with Comparison Graphs and Calculated Graphs. 

We’ve made an upgrade so you can easily compare different periods in any frequency, be it weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly. Prior to this recent upgrade, the offset feature was limited to the graph's default frequency.

Let’s create a comparison graph to compare the current month’s Sales to the Sales of the same month last year. 

Creating an Offset Comparison Graph

First we create a new Comparison graph called Sales This Year / Last year. Then we added the current values and 12-month-offset values as shown below.

End Result

Now you can easily compare your current results to the same period last year, whether weekly, monthly or quarterly. Simple hover to see the values and dates.

For more information on how to create a “This Year / Last Year” comparison graph see Period Offset in Calculated Graphs and How to Create a Comparison Graph. 

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Exploring the New Trend Feature

The new Trend feature provides a quick summary of all your statistics. 

You can see at a glance how your business is performing. 

The Trend summary appears on your Dashboard and can be viewed on any graph. 

Here’s how it works:

Trend Summary on the Dashboard 

Show & Hide Trends in Graph View

You can see all trends using the Show Trend button in Graph View. Once done, click Hide Trends.

And remember, our Trend feature includes a machine learning algorithm, so if you see a trend that’s not quite right, be sure to Flag it as shown here.

Give Trends a try today. For more information see Introduction to Trends.

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Envisage Now Available in Russian (Теперь доступно на русском языке)

We’re pleased to announce that envisage has been translated for all of our Russian friends (and we know there’s 150 million of you 😉).

The entire interface, menu options and features will automatically default to Russian if your browser default language is Russian.

You can also use Russian characters for your statistics, org chart and all other envisage features.

If your browser defaults to english and you only want to change Envisage to Russian, change your default language via envisage settings as shown in this help doc.

Here’s an example of envisage displayed in Russian:

If you have any questions, reach out to support. 

Наслаждаться (Enjoy!) 

And remember, envisage includes Statistics, Org Chart and OKRs and you can try for free on a no-risk 14-day trial. We’ll even help you set up all your existing statistics to make sure you succeed in getting your business onto Envisage. 

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Expanding to Multiple Locations? An Org Chart to Rule them All.

When your business starts expanding globally or even country-wide, you need an org chart system to help maintain overall coordination from the top, while simultaneously allowing a local office to monitor their own team. 

Ideally the local team can operate independently, but still within the framework of the business, where top management can drill down into the details if needed. 

Is it possible to have an org chart and business intelligence system that enables both micro and macro views, without burning the satellite office with extraneous data?

Previously it was not possible. Until recently no app combined org charts and business intelligence interconnected on a global scale. 

Well, the coding geniuses behind envisage have solved that problem! 😀

Welcome to a brand new feature called Junior Org Charts. You can create unlimited linking org charts that come together in a Senior Org Chart. Everyone throughout the organisation has a place on the Senior Org Chart, but they also have their own junior organization, where they coordinate and manage their own activities. 

They are still part of the whole. They are still on one Org Chart. Their stats and objectives can still be monitored. 

But they also act independently, under their own management.

It’s the ultimate expansion tool.

It enables hypergrowth on a global scale and with it you can build an Org Chart that rules them all.

And remember, throughout May, we’re offering free Org Chart creation. This service is valued at $199, but will be free until the end of May 2020!

For more information register here.

Envisage includes Statistics, Org Chart and OKRs and you can try for free on a no-risk 14-day trial. We’ll even help you set up all your existing statistics to make sure you succeed in getting your business onto Envisage. 

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Warning - Hypergrowth Inevitable

Before you jump in and start using envisage, we thought we should provide full disclosure. 

Envisage not only enables hypergrowth, it makes it inevitable. 

When you combine the power of the org chart, statistics and objectives together across your organization, the only way to go is up. 

This isn’t theory. It’s based on stats.

As our user base grows, despite worldwide turmoil, so do many of our clients. 

They’re not just surviving, they're thriving!

To build an organization, you need to organize and align your forces. Envisage lets you see what happened, when it happened, who did it and most of all, enables you to plan what will happen. 

Are you ready for hypergrowth?  It starts with your org chart and for the month of May we’re offering to build it in envisage for you, free of charge. 

This service is valued at $199. For more information register here.

And remember, envisage includes Statistics, Org Chart and OKRs and you can try free on a no risk 14-day trial. We’ll even help you set up all your existing statistics to make sure you succeed in getting your business onto Envisage. 

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Easily Import Your Entire Team into Envisage

With envisage you get unlimited users! That’s right, for only $20 per month your entire team can use envisage.

And now, with our new Member Import feature, we’ve made adding your entire team even easier!

This feature can also be used to mass update any field, including contact phone numbers, status, Employ IDs, and more. 

See our help docs for more information here.

And remember, throughout May, we’re offering free Org Chart creation. This service is valued at $199, but will be free until the end of May 2020!

For more information register here.

And remember envisage includes Statistics, Org Chart and OKRs and you can try for free on a no-risk 14-day trial. We’ll even help you set up all your existing statistics to make sure you succeed in getting your business onto Envisage. 

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Easily Create Ratio Graphs

How many phone calls does it take to get a qualified lead?

How many leads does it take to make a sale?

And what about the ratio of appointments to sales?

If you are already tracking calls, leads, appointments and sales, you can easily find out how well the entire team is doing, as well as each individual. 

Let me show you how it’s done.

Our fictitious business, Champion Printing, tracks the following stats:

Now let’s work out the ratio between Quotes and Sales using the Calculated Graph feature.

We can also apply this method to each individual to see how well they are performing in comparison to the current team conversion rate of 63%!

It’s obvious that Sam is the weak link in the sales process. Perhaps he needs more training, or there are other factors affecting his performance. Regardless, we know we need to investigate and see how we can help Sam improve.

Want to know more? Check out the Calculated Graph feature and reach out to support if you need help. 

And remember envisage includes Statistics, Org Chart and OKRs and you can try it for free on a no-risk 14-day trial. We’ll even help you set up all your existing statistics to make sure you succeed in getting your business onto Envisage. 

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Live Status - Behind the Scenes Look

The idea of building an online app appeals to many as a wonderful business. Just throw up a website and start earning monthly revenue. Easy peasy!

Well, like all things, if you truly want to build something worthwhile, it takes time, money and commitment.

Envisage is more than just a “stats app”—with org charts, objectives, trends and reports. It was built from the ground up to help our users enable, foster and manage hypergrowth for their companies. There is a massive amount of data stored in the background, with millions of calculations required to bring that data to you in the form of a graph or chart. This data is stored in databases that are regularly backed up. Also, these databases need to be maintained. 

Much of this happens in the background and as a user, everything appears seamless. Occasionally, however, something breaks. It might be a server, internet connections, operating system limitations or a host of other things that would require me to spew out acronyms like alphabet soup that would serve no purpose other than to confuse you. 

The point is that when you have an app like envisage which hundreds of companies use to manage and grow their business, we have a responsibility to ensure that your data is safe and accessible—in short, we need to ensure the app works.

On Friday 13th March, around 5pm EST, we had a database issue that caused envisage to timeout. While not everyone was affected, we took major action. The development team worked 9 hours straight to figure out the problem and resolved it permanently. The problem was, in simple terms, we’d hit a limitation with the version of software we use to manage the databases. It’s one of those things you’d never know existed until you run head on into it. The team not only upgraded the software, but also upgraded the servers.

We’ve also instigated a Status page, so you can easily see what is happening in the background and for any future issues, you’ll be able to track realtime what the team are doing to fix it. All information about any issue remains on our status page for your future reference and peace of mind on how we identified and solved the issue. This aligns with our policy of being completely transparent with you, our users.

As a result of the recent issue, envisage now runs even faster on an even more robust system!

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And if you didn’t notice anything, wonderful—that’s how it's meant to be!

P.S. You can see our status page at status.envisage.io or via the in-app chat.

And remember envisage includes Statistics, Org Charts and OKRs and you can try it for free on a no-risk 14-day trial. We’ll even help you set up all your existing statistics to make sure you succeed in getting your business onto Envisage and on its way to hyper-growth!

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