What Is a Concept Map

What is a Concept Map and what software is effective for its design? A concept map or conceptual diagram is a diagram that depicts suggested relationships between concepts. As for effective software - we suggest you to pay attention for the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software. Extended with Concept Maps Solution from the "Diagrams" Area it is a real godsend for you.

Concept Map Maker

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Concept Maps Solution from the "Diagrams" Area is a powerful Concept Map Maker.

Concept Map

A concept map is a way of representing relationships between ideas, images, or words. How to draw a Concept Map quick, easy and effective? ConceptDraw DIAGRAM offers the unique Concept Maps Solution from the "Diagrams" Area that will help you!

Concept Maps

As concept map consists from conception-blocks and links between them, you can use ConceptDraw library objects and add to a document as much objects as you need. ConceptDraw tools let you to edit, group, move objects, change their appearance and add text signs and raster or vector pictures. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Concept Maps Solution from the "Diagrams" Area is effective tool for creating professional looking Concept Maps.

Concept Mapping

Being usually a very complex process that requires a lot of skills, patience, time, and artistic abilities, the concept mapping process now is incredibly easy thanks to the Concept Maps Solution from the "Diagrams" Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

How To Make a Concept Map

How to make a Concept Map fast and easy? ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Concept Maps Solution from the "Diagrams" Area is the best choice for those who want design professional looking Concept Map in minutes.

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.

Professional & Powerful Mind Mapping Software

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Concept Maps

The technique of concept mapping was developed as a constructive way of representing knowledge in science and increasing the meaningfulness of learning. Now, the creation of a concept map is extremely helpful when used in education as learning and teaching techniques that assist memorization. Concept maps are also used for idea generation in brainstorming sessions, and for detailing the structure of complex ideas.

Concept map - Template

"A concept map is a diagram that depicts suggested relationships between concepts. It is a graphical tool that designers, engineers, technical writers, and others use to organize and structure knowledge. A concept map typically represents ideas and information as boxes or circles, which it connects with labeled arrows in a downward-branching hierarchical structure. The relationship between concepts can be articulated in linking phrases such as causes, requires, or contributes to. The technique for visualizing these relationships among different concepts is called concept mapping. Concept maps define the ontology of computer systems, for example with the object role modeling or Unified Modeling Language formalism." [Concept map. Wikipedia]
The concept map template for the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software is included in the Concept Maps solution from the area "What is a Diagram" of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Concept map template

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Concept Maps

HelpDesk

How to Add a Concept Map to MS Word Document

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM allows you to easily create concept maps and then insert them into an MS Word document.

Superb Examples of Infographic Maps

Great examples of Infographic Maps, they are needed for inspiration.

HelpDesk

How to Create a Concept Map

The graphical technique of knowledge representation in the form of structured networks of concepts (ideas) is called concept mapping. Concept network consists of shapes that represent concepts and connectors representing relationships between concepts. The difference between mind maps and concept maps is that a mind map has only one object depicting the main idea, while a concept map may have several. Concept mapping is used to structure ideas, to communicate a complex system of knowledge, to help the learning process, etc. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM allows you to draw concept maps using the Concept Map solution.

Exercise your brain

ConceptDraw MINDMAP mind mapping software can help professionals and students alike, whatever sphere they are involved in, to organize their work more effectively. The mind maps created with Macintosh version of ConceptDraw MINDMAP can be freely shared with Windows users without any limitation of your opportunities in communications.

Mac Compatible Remote Presentation

Mac compatible remote presentation, A simple way to share your presentation remotely via Skype. All participants receive presentation file.

Enhancing maps using ConceptDraw MINDMAP ′s Theme Gallery

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Quality Mind Maps - samples and templates

Use samples and templates to describe your own quality processes, brainstorm, and structure quality issues.

Concept maps - Vector stencils library

The vector stencils library "Concept maps" contains 16 geometrical shapes.
Use it to create your concept maps, mindmaps, idea maps, tree diagrams, omega maps, cluster diagrams and spider diagrams.
The symbols example "Concept maps - Vector stencils library" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Concept Maps solution from the area "What is a Diagram" of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Rectangle

Rounded rectangle

Stadium

Oval

Diamond

Parallelogram

Circle

Star

Hexagon

Cloud

Starburst

Arrow

Envelope

Note

Callout

Table

Used Solutions

What is a Diagram >

Concept Maps

ConceptDraw Arrows10 Technology

How should diagramming software work? The answer is - Fast and easy. "Tree"- mode drawing works like that. Just select objects in your drawing and press Tree or Chain button to connect all of them just in one click. Your diagram looks professional and it took only a moment to draw.