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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.

Affinity Diagram

The Affinity Diagram, also known as a KJ diagram, is a business tool invented for organization the large quantity of ideas and data. It is a part of Seven Management and Planning Tools, it is usually used right after brainstorming to sort large numbers of ideas into the corresponding groups. The Affinity Diagram helps to represent in a better way the structure of large and complex factors which influence on a problem, divides these factors into the smaller and simpler structures, and helps team members to see the patterns and identify possible solutions to problems they have. The diagrams of this type don't show the causal relationships between the factors, but they are designed to prepare the data for holding further analysis of the cause-effect relationships. Another area of Affinity Diagram usage is contextual inquiry as a way to sort observations and notes from field interviews, support call logs, open-ended survey responses organizing, etc. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software offers you the tools for easy holding brainstorming, generation ideas and creation MINDMAP Affinity Diagram.

Dashboard

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM extended with Sales Dashboard solution from the Marketing area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is a perfect software for creating the live dashboard for the business data and progress visualization.

SWOT Analysis

The success of the company depends on how successfully it is able to react on different outside influences. When analyzing the external situation, it is necessary to identify the factors most significant on a specified period of time. An interrelated consideration of these factors with the company's possibilities allows to solve effectively appearing problems. One of the most common methods of assessment together internal and external factors influencing the company's development is a SWOT analysis. SWOT analysis (acronym composed of the first letters of the words: strength, weakness, opportunities, threats) is one of the most common and effective types of analysis in marketing and marketing researches. It allows to identify and structure the strengths and weaknesses of an enterprise, as well as potential opportunities and threats of the market, to make conclusion in which direction a given organization needs to develop its business and to formulate the organization's strategy. Use the ConceptDraw MINDMAP software and offered SWOT analysis templates for easy holding SWOT analysis for your company. This Mind Map displays the SWOT analysis for a company and variety of performance measures that influence its work.

SWOT Analysis Solution - Strategy Tools

The condition and successful development of the company depends on how efficiently it is able to react on different outside influences. Analysis and interrelated consideration of external factors and the company's capabilities allow effectively solve appearing problems. One of the most common methods of evaluation together internal and external factors influencing the company's development is SWOT analysis elaborated for business and industry. It is a necessary element of researches and obligatory preliminary stage at the preparation of strategic and marketing plans of the company. Upon the results of SWOT analysis, we can assess does the company have the internal forces and resources to realize the existing opportunities and resist external threats, and what internal deficiencies require the prompt rectification. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software enhanced with SWOT Analysis solution offers powerful drawing and strategy tools for effective execution the SWOT and TOWS analysis for your company with a goal of effectively realizing strategic planning and correct decision-making.

Product Overview

ConceptDraw PROJECT is a vigorous tool for managing single or multiple projects. It lets you determine all essential elements involved into project, control schedules, resources and finances, and monitor projects' progress in most effective yet simple manner.

Performance Indicators

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software offers the useful tools of the Sales Dashboard solution from the Marketing area for easy creating professional looking live dashboards which allow to track the business sales activity and progress thanks to representing the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on them.

7 Management & Planning Tools

The 7 Management and Planning Tools solution available from ConceptDraw Solution Park implements well-known methodologies and provides the comprehensive set of tools for problems' analysis and solving. Different products from multifunctional ConceptDraw Office suite may be used as a complete solution for any of methodologies offered by this solution and provide a visual communication during every stage of work. Use the MINDMAP 7 Management & Planning Tools for step-by-step identification and analysis the problems, for planning solving and corrective actions, and also countermeasures to address the risks. 7 Management and Planning Tools solution is perfect for managers in medium to large companies, who require effective tools to address the management issue, for business consultants, trainers and coaches to help visualize the problem's solving by using 7 MP Tools methodology, to structure the problem's affecting factors, analyze their root causes and cause and effect relations, to highlight drivers and indicators factors, to prioritize factors using ranking by criteria set.

Relations Diagram

Relations Diagram was first used in electronics industry with a goal to find the key words and phrases in a text, and now is used in variety of fields. Relations Diagram defines visually the complex relationships between different elements and uses the boxes to represent these elements and the arrows to show the links. Relations Diagram allows the most extensively consider the problems, to represent visually relationships between the factors, processes, areas. It can be effective in organizing the diversity of ideas generated during the brainstorming session, lets identify the causes factors called "Drivers" and effects factors called "Indicators", detect such important characteristics as Key Performance Indicators that help to monitor the changes and effectiveness of corrective actions in the process of problem solving. ConceptDraw MINDMAP and ConceptDraw DIAGRAM applications that are included to ConceptDraw suite, offer a lot of useful tools that help perform the brainstorm session and easy design Relations Diagram. To make effectively Relations Diagram simply identify the problem, capture the issues, draw the arrows and count the influencers.

SWOT Analysis Tool for Small Business

SWOT analysis is effective method of making the plan to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project. SWOT analysis includes the specifying project objectives and attentive identifying the internal and external causes for accomplishing the main project goals. It is actively used in large and small business project management for effective and clear identifying the critical factors. SWOT and TOWS Matrix Diagrams solution is included to ConceptDraw Solution Park and contains the high-quality analysis tools. This graphical solution turns the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software in an excellent marketing management and advertising agency software, the best SWOT analysis tool for small business or large, as you like and need. Included graphic tools, visual and project planning components make it the best marketing project management software for marketing project planning and for making marketing presentations. Use the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM to create professional and well-designed SWOT matrices in minutes.

Risk Diagram (Process Decision Program Chart)

The risk is a probable event in result of which may occur the negative events and adverse consequences. The risk management is a very important process in any field, it is a process of making the management decisions aimed on the reducing the likelihood of appearing the unfavorable results and on the minimizing potential losses, as well as the implementation of these solutions. The main purpose of applying the risk management is increasing of enterprise's competitiveness with help of protection against the risks. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software is perfect for identifying the risks, analyzing and managing risks, for designing Risk Diagrams, for developing effective actions in response to circumstances and potential obstacles that were identified as risks. It is also the best for designing Process Decision Program Charts and representing the PDPC method, which is effective way of detailed planning and depiction the whole sequence of actions on the path from the formulation a problem to its solution. The PDPC lets determine the risks when corrective actions are not performed correctly and helps develop descriptions for preventive actions.