Value Stream Map

Value stream mapping is a well-known lean manufacturing and lean management method of depiction, analyzing and improvement the current state of flow of manufacturing and production process, of designing a future state for the serie of events that occur with product during the long way from the beginning to customer. Value stream map helps a manufacturing team to represent visually the flow of materials through the process, as well as the flow of information required to deliver a product or a service from the supplier to customer. Value stream map is a first step on the way to ideal state of organization due to the possibility to detect immediately the process delays, to analyze and identify the potential process improvement opportunities, to identify the waste in a process and to minimize them. The Mind Maps are widely applied in lean manufacturing and management. This Mind Map created using the powerful tools of ConceptDraw MINDMAP software demonstrates how the Value Stream Map can be represented as a mind map.

How to exchange data files of major mind mapping software?

Data Exchange - Tools to exchnage data files of major mindmapping software for team collaboration. The Mind Map Exchange solution allows you to share mind maps with others who have 3rd party mind map applications.

Looking at ConceptDraw MINDMAP as a Replacement for Mindjet Mindmanager

ConceptDraw MindMap benefits comparing to Mindjet Mindmanager: Economical. (Lower license price, support is no charge maintenance is an optional one-time fee that delivers to you the next major release) ConceptDraw products are structured to save you money from the date of purchase for the life of the product. When you compare ConceptDraw MINDMAP to Mindjet Mindmanager the cost savings will be obvious. Flexible Licensing. ConceptDraw is licensed per-named-user. Want ConceptDraw on 2 PCs, 2 Macs, or a PC and a Mac? Straightforward licensing makes this easy.

Exam Preparation Mind Map

How to Import Mind Maps from XMind

ConceptDraw MINDMAP has impressive import and export capabilities includes following formats: OPML, Mindjet MindManager; Microsoft Office products: PowerPoint, Project, Word; FreeMind (import only); XMind (import only). Now ConceptDraw MINDMAP users and Mindjet MindManager users can freely exchange their mind maps using the Mind Map Exchange solution available in Solution Park.

Idea Outline

ConceptDraw MINDMAP is a powerful brainstorming software, the best application for ideas communication, for outlining ideas and data, for organizing arguments and other information. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software and solutions offered by ConceptDraw Solution Park help to hold the brainstorming session, to brainstorm a lot of new ideas, to outline your ideas, to make the Mind Map from the new ideas and concepts, to show new ideas at the presentation, efffectively communicate them and report at the meetings and conferences. The good ideas outline saves your time and helps visually explain your ideas for other people. Outline effectively your ideas using varied tools offered by ConceptDraw MINDMAP and make sure that it is very easy. The wide export capabilities of ConceptDraw MINDMAP are also helpful for ideas communication and collaboration with colleagues which don't have installed ConceptDraw Office applications. You can create automatically the MS PowerPoint presentation or MS Word document from the content of the active page of your map with a simple click.

Business Productivity - Management

The widespread of Mind Maps in the field of management is justified and very convenient. The managers and leaders work with large amount of information and data, and need the useful tools for its structuring and systemizing. They prefer to use the powerful Mind Mapping software that gives them a lot of benefits. ConceptDraw MINDMAP is professional software for management, business planning, strategic planning, business productivity and development. It provides the powerful tools which help managers to be effective and improve their productivity, supports them in easy visual documenting and communication the management information. Use ConceptDraw MINDMAP to build the Management Diagrams (Matrices, Organizational Charts, Deployment Charts, Timelines, Cause & Effect (Fishbone) Diagrams) and key management Mind Maps (SWOT analysis, problem solving, decision making, business planning, scheduling, thinking ideas, company organizing, preparing and holding the meetings and presentations) quickly and easily.

Sales Call

Mind map template that outlines the different features of a sales call.

Total Quality Management

The desire to encourage the production of competitive goods led to the establishment of new method of continuous quality improvement of all organizational processes, production and service. This method successfully launched in Japan and the USA was named Total Quality Management (TQM). Now, the TQM is a dynamically developed concept, a strategic approach to management that is based on manufacturing goods or services of the best quality among innovative counterparts from the point of view of consumers. The main idea of TQM is that the company should work not only on the product quality, but also on the quality of company's work, including the work of staff. The constant parallel improvement of product quality, quality of organization processes, level of qualification the personnel allow to achieve more rapid and effective business development. Mind Maps are effective in a field of quality management and allow to structure all key quality points on one page. This Mind Map designed in ConceptDraw MINDMAP software illustrates the well-known Total Quality Management (TQM) methodology.

125 Ways to Integrate Social Media to Increase Your Business

This mind map illustrates modern social media approaches to business marketing that can be presented to others using ConceptDraw MINDMAP and the eLearning for Skype solution.

SWOT Analysis

When starting a new business project or business venture and making the strategic decisions, you need to attach all strengths, utilize all opportunities to eliminate weaknesses and to avoid potential threats. All these actions look like hard, but it is not so when is applied a SWOT Analysis method. The main goal of this method is to help develop a strong business strategy, its major tools are SWOT Matrix and SWOT Mind Map that help you define the internal strengths and weaknesses, and also external opportunities and threats that you may face. The Mind Map is a unique visual tool, which lets you see immediately the key points and gaps, and to establish the links between seemingly unrelated information. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software is effective to save your time and efforts when carrying out a SWOT Analysis. The SWOT and TOWS Matrix Diagrams solution, that is available from ConceptDraw Solution Park, contains easy-to-use Mind Map templates to help you identify the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, and represent the SWOT analysis results on the professionally-looking Mind Map.

Relations Diagram

The Relations Diagram is used to identify how the factors influence each other, to determine what factors are causes and what are effects. The factors mostly influencing are called “drivers”, the primarily affected factors are “indicators”. The problem solving is focused on the change of "drivers" factors by applying the corrective actions. The "indicators" factors help establish the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor the changes and also define the effectiveness of the corrective actions in resolving a problem. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software ideally suits for designing Relations Diagrams. The easiest way to create the MINDMAP Relations Diagram, is to use the included Relations Diagram input template. Open it in ConceptDraw MINDMAP application from the Input tab and hold a new brainstorming session, identify the central issue and the contributing factors to this issue. Click the Finish Brainstorm button to generate a Mind Map and begin the further work with it, or select Relations Diagram item from the Output tab to automatically draw it in ConceptDraw PRO application.

Business Productivity - Marketing

Mind Map is effective tool for depiction the main idea and related concepts, and representation a thought process. Mind Maps have essential value in marketing field, advertising and sales. They help successfully accomplish marketing goals and easy get marketing answers, to achieve a sustainable competitive advantages and increasing sales. Mind Maps help in new product development, they allow to generate and structure ideas about its properties and features, to define the target customers, brainstorm the key words and phrases for advertising and sales materials. ConceptDraw MINDMAP is a perfect marketing diagramming and marketing strategy tool that help accomplish marketing goals, represent marketing information and easy design Marketing Mind Maps and Marketing Diagrams (Marketing Step Chart, Marketing Mix Diagram, Market Environment Analysis Charts, Sales Pyramids, Target and Marketing Scope Diagrams, Feature Comparison Chart, Product Position Map, Products Comparison Chart, Timeline, SWOT, Boston Growth Matrix, Ansoff Product-Market Growth Matrix) for further using in visual documents and presentations.

Root Cause Tree Diagram

The Root Cause Tree Diagram is a chart that helps determine the root causes of factors that influence the problem, to represent and analyze them. This diagram is constructed separately for each high priority factor. First it is needed to identify the root causes for a factor, display their structure and then propose the possible corrective actions. But how to create Root Cause Tree Diagram with the least efforts and time? ConceptDraw MINDMAP will effectively help you in drawing MINDMAP Root Cause Tree Diagram and Root Cause Analysis Tree Diagram used for further formulation of actions. The Root Cause Tree Diagram template, which can be opened at the program from the Input tab, supplies you with a basic mind map structure for your diagram. The central idea describes briefly a problem, the main topics represent the high-level causes of a problem, their subtopics give more details about the different parts of given causes. At the last level of tree are described the potential solutions to each of detailed parts of the causes.