Mind Maps for Business - SWOT Analysis

How to Make a Project Tasks Mind Map from Brainstorm

Start a project with creating a mind map, structuring ideas captured during a brainstorming session. The easiest way to start a new project is to conduct a brainstorming session that identifies the necessary tasks and then to develop it into a project schedule.

How to Change the Font for an Entire Level of a Mind Map

The visual representation of information is much more productive than simple linear transfer because it is more natural for our brain to understand information in the form of visual images. ConceptDraw MINDMAP will help you put your thoughts and ideas across to any audience in the most intelligible and memorable way. Mind maps can be used in a great number of situations involving analysis, learning, research, and thinking. Use them for personal planning, preparing lists, working on projects, as well as analyzing problems and finding solutions. ConceptDraw MINDMAP provides a variety of style and formatting options for your mind maps, that let you add more information to your mind map without interfering with its readability.

How to Input Data from MS Excel Into a Mind Map

Many people apply Excel documents to store data in the form of hierarchical lists. With ConceptDraw MINDMAP you can easily turn the linear structure of an Excel table in a radial structure of mind map ConceptDraw MINDMAP will create a mind map file (CDMZ) from your Excel (XLS) file. If you keep your information in the Microsoft Excel files, you can import them into ConceptDraw MINDMAP, converting the columns and rows to a hierarchically structured mind map. If you have multiple individual sheets in your Excel workbook, ConceptDraw MINDMAP will turn them into a single multi-page mind map. ConceptDraw MINDMAP lets you import an entire Microsoft® Excel file as well as insert data from the selected cells.

How to Create an Effective Mind Map Using Topic Types

Increase mind map effectiveness using Topic Types functionality, delivered with ConceptDraw MINDMAP. Each Topic Type icon supports a specific set of information relating to the contents of the topic. Different Topics Types icons set are supplied with the MINDMAP application and the solutions that you can download from Solution Park.

How to Insert a Mind Map into Microsoft Word Document

ConceptDraw MINDMAP offers several options of converting your mind map to MS Word document.
You can choose the proper format that meets your needs to communicate the content of your mind maps. Generate text, presentations, images or web pages that are pertinent to your work. Primary, you can export a mind map to MS Word. This method allows stylizing the document by using a custom MS Word templates. If you need to combine text and hierarchically structured information in a single document, the best solution is to incorporate a mind map into the MS Word document using the copy-paste capabilities of ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

How to Start Mind Mapping from a Custom Template

More than 20 built-in styled themes, plus the ability to design custom themes makes ConceptDraw MINDMAP an impressive visual tool. Quickly make a mind map template for organization meeting schedules and reporting. Create mind maps that stand out from the crowd. In this article, find out how you can make your favorite template the default map when launching ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

How to Send an Outlook Email From a Mind Map

ConceptDraw MINDMAP supports integration with MS Outlook. The mind map topic can be transformed into MS Outlook message with one click.

How to Brainstorm with ConceptDraw MINDMAP

Brainstorming is a way of generating ideas related to a specific theme. Usually brainstorming involves a group of people generating a lot of ideas in a short period of time. The key to brainstorming is putting off the process of evaluating ideas until a later stage. The participants keep a record of their ideas as they come to mind, without thinking them over. Unorthodox and unusual thoughts are welcome, and no criticism or justification is allowed in order to encourage participation. Though one can brainstorm individually, the technique works better in a group, as ideas expressed by one participant trigger more ideas from others, often based on associations, and the participants can benefit from each other’s experience and knowledge.
Brainstorming using a software tool has a lot of advantages over the traditional way of capturing ideas like flip-charts or white-boards. The latter have physical size limitations, which constrain the process as the number of ideas grows. Ideas become scattered around the room, making it is easy to overlook important ideas. Further grouping and prioritizing of ideas is inconvenient and requires a lot of effort. ConceptDraw MINDMAP helps to avoid these problems. Read here how to run a Brainstorming session with ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

How to Send a Mind Map to Evernote

The Note Exchange solution lets you publish a mind map, created with ConceptDraw MINDMAP to your Evernote account.

How to Work with Multipage Mind Maps

ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to merge separate mind maps into a single multipage document.