A consequence you can follow
Follow the impact from a chosen part and get the answer as a sentence to take into the conversation.
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What is affected when you change something?
Make unknown consequences known. Topidar helps you follow a change through systems, information, processes and responsibilities. Start with what you already know. See which connections become visible.
The maps never leave the user's computer.
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Try it here
Click a box. Ask what happens.
This is the tool, with an example loaded. Choose a box to see its connections, or the What if tab to test a change. Nothing you do here is saved.
The examples are made up, to show how it works. They are not customer data.
What a mapping can give you
See the connections. Test the change.
A change in a register can reach a system, a process and a team. Topidar holds the connections as data, so you can look at the same material from different categories.
Another perspective
Switch lens between systems, data, business processes and units. Indirect connections become visible in the chosen view.
A bounded question
Test, for example, what happens if data is moved or responsibility changes team. The scenario test does not save the change.
Three moments
The week before something is decided.
Before replacing a system
The vendor knows what the new system can do. Nobody knows for sure what the old one does today that nobody wrote down. That is where the switch gets expensive.
Before a reorganisation
The org chart shows who reports to whom. It does not show which processes a unit holds together, or which systems only work because someone there knows how.
Before a process change
A process change is often drawn as a new flow chart. What shows less is everything around it: the systems the process reads from, the steps it triggers and those who receive the result.
What the tool looks like
Screenshots with the sample data: an airline.
Start small
A mapping grows out of the conversation.
- 1
Write a connection as a sentence: what affects what?
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Add systems, processes, data and responsibilities as they come up.
- 3
Pick one thing and test what moves through the model.
What Topidar is not
A map is not a forecast.
Topidar calculates on connections that people have entered. It does not know whether the map is complete and cannot promise that a change will be safe.
There is no automatic discovery from code or other systems. A useful picture takes knowledge from several parts of the organisation. That hypothesis is still being tested.
Mapping with Toppidé
The tool is free. Help is there if you want it.
A free first call
We go through what you are facing and whether a mapping is the right way. It does not commit you to anything.
A workshop
We build the map in the room with the people who know the systems, the processes and the responsibilities. You leave with a first map and what needs sorting out.
An assignment over a few weeks
We map ahead of a system replacement, a reorganisation or a process change, and hand over the map and an analysis of what is affected. The map is yours.
Questions and answers
Before you start.
Does Topidar cost anything?
The tool is free to use. The first call with Toppidé is free. Workshops and assignments are quoted for what you need.
Where is the map saved?
The map is saved locally in the browser at this address. It is not sent to any server. Choose Save to create a saved version, or Export to save a file and move the map to another computer.
Can several people edit the same map at the same time?
No. Topidar has no accounts or collaboration features. You can share an exported file between people, but changes are not synced automatically.
Is the result a forecast?
No. It shows what follows from the connections you have entered. It does not say how likely an outcome is, and incomplete information can give an incomplete picture.
How do we start when the map is empty?
Start with a few connections you know about. Add more perspectives as you go. You do not need to configure the tool before you get a first answer.
Who is behind Topidar?
Topidar is built by Toppidé, a Swedish company working in strategy, information and data, technical project management and architecture.
By Toppidé
Want to go through a mapping together?
The first call is free. Tell us briefly what you are facing, and we will get back to you and suggest a time.