Chapter 9. Creating Flowcharts

Whether your business needs to visually display change management, continuous improvement, business process re-engineering, breakthrough planning, or Hoshin planning, Microsoft Office Visio 2007 can help you with its flexible Flowchart templates. You don’t, however, need to produce detailed management schemes to use Office Visio 2007 flowcharts; you might only want to visually organize some thoughts for a presentation slide. Whatever your needs may be, Visio 2007 can help you.

It is a common misconception that Visio 2007 is a flowcharting tool. As the size of this book attests, Visio 2007 can be used for more than flowcharts. However, it’s especially well suited to the task of connecting information visually, which is a common feature of the flowchart templates that Visio 2007 includes. This chapter describes how to create the most common styles of flowcharts in Visio 2007, but the same techniques apply to just about any connected diagram.