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ConceptDraw MINDMAP software included to powerful ConceptDraw Office suite is applied for professional creation the Mind Maps, for effective managing the communications within the work group or team, for holding brainstorming sessions. The ability of exchanging the documents and files of different types, including Mind Maps is very useful for users that need to collaborate, but apply varied applications in their work. ConceptDraw MINDMAP supports the export to many Microsoft Office products, such as MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, as well as export to PDF, HTML, Evernote, Apple iCal, and different graphic format files. The Mind Map Exchange solution from the Collaboration area of ConceptDraw Solution Park makes the ConceptDraw MINDMAP software powerful in questions of exchanging the Mind Maps with large variety of major mind mapping applications, including Mindjet MindManager, FreeMind, XMind. If you can't to find some file format you need at the import / export list, you can refer to the third party applications to import or export the files through them.

Exam Preparation Mind Map

Mind Map is a way to effectively visualize the complex knowledge, to simplify and accelerate the learning and teaching processes. In this way Mind Maps are always in demand in a lot of spheres, among them business, education, engineering, software development, and many others. Mind Maps are perfect for illustration the documents, reports, textbooks, websites, education materials, lectures, etc. The ConceptDraw MINDMAP professional software from ConceptDraw Office suite provides a lot of powerful tools for brainstorming and designing colorful and attractive Mind Maps, drawings and charts, which ideally suit for structuring information and its representation in a visual and comprehensive form. To prepare effectively for examination, you need organize yourself and also clearly understand the correct sequence of actions. This Mind Map created in ConceptDraw MINDMAP application illustrates the main items during the exam preparation process. The use of predesigned cliparts lets to make your Mind Maps illustrative, colorful and attractive.

Preparing for a lecture mind map

The main task of any teacher, lecturer, professor is how to convey effectively the new information, to present it as simply as possible and to clarify all complex moments for the pupils, students, or other learners. Each of them always strives to make his lecture, lesson or speech interesting for the listeners which are now in auditorium. For successful achievement this task often may be needed not only the correctly chosen words, but also bright and colorful materials used in addition to the narration. The use of mind mapping technology in education and training is incredibly good choice. The Mind Maps are great opportunity to organize and structure the information, to allocate all the most important and to present it on the map in convenient, clear and easy to understand form, that allows you to keep the attention of your audience for a long time. Use professional mind mapping software ConceptDraw MINDMAP and its powerful tools to prepare the Mind Maps for your lectures, to make them colorful and bright, to add special pictures and to make visual accents on important details quick and easy.

Physical Activity Plan

The physical activity is one of the key aspects of a healthy lifestyle. It makes a person not only more attractive physically, but also significantly improves his health, positively affects the life's duration, reduces the chances of appearance the serious diseases. This can be a serious sports occupation, but it is not necessary, the moderate physical activity is also very useful and important for everyone. It can be any muscle activity performed during the day, week, month, or year, no matter these are the special physical exercises, dancing, housework, working in the garden, climbing stairs, or just walking. The physical activity has a particular importance for children's health. The exercises and physical activity allow children to prevent development of various chronic diseases and heart illnesses yet at early age, promotes healthy and harmonious child's development, physical, mental and intellectual. The Mind Map designed in ConceptDraw MINDMAP software depicts detailed activity plan, which illustrates the proposal to incorporate more physical activity into a college community.

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.

Product Proposal Data

The main purpose of any businessman is to grow its business. There are many techniques and ways to provide and advance the information about a new product or service. One of them is a proposal, it is a written set of offered products or services by a seller to the consumers. The new product proposal is a popular business tool that plays the great role in business promotion and increasing the sales of a company. It visually outlines the objectives, ideas, features and functions of a new product. A good proposal is a perfect way to attract new consumers and increase amounts of sales. In this regard it is essential to know how to make correct and effective product proposals, because the correctly made product proposal or a presentation is a key to success of your business. The effective product proposal helps your business to feel good and attract a lot of new customers, and thus to boost sales and win in conditions of competition. This Mind Map created in ConceptDraw MINDMAP organizes the data of a product proposal.

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.

Strategy Map

The enterprise strategy is an interrelated perspective plan of actions designed to achieve long-term goals according to company's own potential as well as external factors. Development of strategy is one of the main functions of management. The strategy determines the enterprise's direction of development, it covers all major functions and departments: supply, production, finance, marketing, personnel, scientific researches and development, and helps managers to make informed decisions when choosing a method of actions. The choice by managers of a particular strategy means that of all the possible paths of development and ways of actions, it is decided to choose one direction in which the enterprise will evolve. Without a strategy the administration has no thought-out plan of actions, no guide in the world of business, and no unified program to achieve desired results. Since in the process of strategic decision making always appear new alternatives and is executed the search of the most preferred solutions, the initially designated goals of strategic development can be subsequently adjusted. This Mind Map template of a strategy map helps to display a variety of performance measures, which can have an impact on your organization.

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.

Creating a Schedule

The preparation of detailed schedule is a good assistant on the way to successful solving various problems and implementation the projects of any complexity. At the same time, often the scheduling is quite not an easy task, which requires a lot of time and efforts. However, the use of specialized software such as ConceptDraw MINDMAP can greatly facilitate its implementation. This software provides large set of powerful tools allowing you to create successful plan that helps to break the task into the subtasks, to make detailed work breakdown structure, to arrange clearly all actions, to present them visually on the plan and to calculate the required resources for implementation defined steps and actions. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software from ConceptDraw Office suite is a perfect application for creating a schedule of any event or process, it offers all needed drawing tools and the predesigned templates for easy planning processes, for scheduling the daily routine, organizing different tasks and possible interruptions.

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.

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Fishbone Diagram

The use of specific types of visual diagrams is effective way to problems solving and decisions making. Fishbone diagram is a graphical tool used for visual and systematical analyzing the relationships between the solved problem and causes affecting its occurrence. It has hierarchical structure and that's why is well-suited for capturing in a mind map for a process of reviewing what branch is a real root cause of a given issue. ConceptDraw Office products and PM solutions offered by ConceptDraw STORE give the powerful help in questions of planning and project management. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and ConceptDraw MINDMAP applications perfectly suit for designing professional-looking Fishbone Diagrams and allow effectively identify the root causes of quality issues using the Fishbone diagrams. The PM Response solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is powerful for improvement the response time to project changes, helps with iteration planning, with solving project challenges and discussing project layout approaches.

Business Planning

Mind Map is a great way to represent, organize, and visualize information. Mind Maps are well perceived, can indefinitely grow and be supplemented with new elements. There are many different applications of Mind Maps, they are used as a means of easy presenting and remembering new material in the learning process, they assist in conducting trainings and presentations, they are convenient to make notes of lectures and books, are effective for solving creative problems and for personal development, are indispensable for brainstorming. Mind Maps are also successfully used in planning and designing business projects, while discussing various business problems, defining goals and setting priorities. Many businessmen successfully use Mind Maps for personal development, as well as for business planning and development their companies. With all its simplicity, this tool impresses by its efficiency, it allows to penetrate into the essence of the problem and to see at once the whole range of your tasks, gives you the opportunity to develop and improve ideas, outlining them as clear and concise image. It is convenient to use a specialized software for designing Mind Maps. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software is the best in questions of mind mapping and business planning using Mind Maps.