SWOT Analysis

Most of the data needed for market analysis (demand, prices, volume of sales, etc.) are undefined, and in future are possible their changes as in the worst and the best side. SWOT analysis is effective method for prediction these processes and decision making for organizations that function in a competitive environment. It allows you to see the whole situation, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of organization (advantages and disadvantages), as well as opportunities and threats of external environment. The results of SWOT analysis are the basis for optimization the business processes, for development by the leading specialists in organization of interrelated complex of strategies and competitive activities. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software enhanced with SWOT and TOWS Matrix Diagrams Solution will effectively help you in strategic planning for your company, department, project, in development marketing campaign, in identification of four categories of factors of internal and external environment of organization, and construction professional-looking SWOT and TOWS matrices.

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.

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.

SWOT Template

The SWOT and TOWS Matrix Diagrams solution from the ConceptDraw Solution Park gives a simple visual support for all steps of a SWOT analysis process, which is a popular strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, as well as Opportunities and Threats facing a project. Strengths are the project's characteristics giving it the advantages over the others, weaknesses are the characteristics placing the team at the disadvantage relatively to others, opportunities are the elements that the project can exploit to its advantage and threats are the elements that can cause the troubles. The results of a correctly performed SWOT analysis help to achieve effectively the main objective. The SWOT templates included to SWOT and TOWS Matrix Diagrams solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM isually support the identifying of internal and external factors that are favorable or unfavorable. Making the SWOT analysis and completing the SWOT Matrix by simple filling a SWOT template, you can then export it to large variety of available formats: PowerPoint presentation, PDF, image files, and others.

Gant Chart in Project Management

Gantt Chart is a graphical representation of tasks as segments on a time scale. It helps plan and monitor project development or resource allocation. There are list of tasks, project milesones and stages. The horizontal axis is a time scale, expressed either in absolute or relative time. Gantt chart can be used for planning in virtually any industry. There are major project planning tools using gantt chart for creating project plan. For instance, using ConceptDraw PROJECT together with ConceptDraw MINDMAP for planning marketing actions is very effective way. It makes ConceptDraw Office best marketing project management software for gantt chart planning marketing message, scheduling stages when to send massive text messages or when use email marketing services in specific projects. There are simple steps on how to use project management software for marketing, sales actions and product support. This is simple all in one toolbox for managers who need best project management software for small business as for planning and brainstorming as for reporting at project execution stage. Using gantt charts together with mindmap visuals and professional presentations charts make it excellent creative project management software. ConceptDraw PROJECT is portfolio project management software it allows manage many projects with multi gantt chart.

How to Create a Social Media DFD Flowchart

The use of social media in modern conditions helps the companies to be more effective in timely messaging - actively and rapidly response to a customer posts in social media, to find quickly the appropriate response to social media mentions, to save greatly the budget. Many companies even use the social media as a lead tool for promotion. But how to create a Social Media DFD Flowchart, Social Media Response Flowchart or Action Mind Map fast and easy? ConceptDraw DIAGRAM ector graphical software and Social Media Response solution included to ConceptDraw Solution Park assist greatly in their creation. This solution improves the quality of content in social media and helps to build an active customer community. The samples and examples included to Social Media Response solution are helpful for social media teams in developing a social media strategy, in refining and organizing the response process, in creation training materials by trainers and consultants for education the social media groups on how to accomplish the most effectiveness in their daily work.

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.

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.

Export from ConceptDraw MINDMAP to Apple iCal

ConceptDraw MINDMAP Mac OS X version enables you to export your mind map into the iCal calendar and generate tasks from mind map topics.

Dealing with Difficult People

Every day we communicate with many people, but sometimes we meet the people with a complex character that do not go towards, in spite of all our efforts. There are about twelve types of people that are recognized as difficult. What we need to do when dealing with a difficult person? Anyway you must realize that you can not avoid the meeting with people, who consciously or unconsciously, will complicate your life. No matter where you are faced with a difficult person - at work, study, or in other occasions, it is needed try to find a compromise, you can use special approaches to dealing with difficult people. The key point in detecting the approach to difficult people is to realize that the person is difficult to communicate, to stay flexible and calm, retain neutrality, to apply to a specific person an individual approach, given its features, hidden needs and interests, and also your own priorities in this situation. Mind Map is a useful way to describe various approaches that you need to take when dealing with difficult people. Make it easy in ConceptDraw MINDMAP software.

Computer Hardware - Reseller Business Plan

When developing a business plan it is very important to accurately represent the structure and visually outline all important information. A business plan usually has a clear hierarchical structure. The Mind Maps are particularly effective to describe such structures, they are one of the most powerful and visually intuitive tools for the tasks of structuring and memorizing large amounts of information. The Mind Maps are indispensable in development the complex projects, in preparation and discussion of business plans, in designing the presentations, in process of decision making, holding brainstorming, time management, etc. As for the software for working with Mind Maps, particularly effective is a cross-platform ConceptDraw MINDMAP software for Windows and Mac OS X. It provides many tools that help in business plan preparation for organizing the new business, in developing a business plan for promotion some product, etc. ConceptDraw MINDMAP supports the multipage documents, the export and import into popular applications MS PowerPoint, MS Word, PDF, MindManager, in project management applications ConceptDraw Project and MS Project, and in various graphical formats. You can to observe a Mind Map of a business plan for computer hardware reseller designed in ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

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.

Organigrams with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

ConceptDraw - Organigram software allows quickly create Organigrams and much more. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is an ideal tool for Administrative staff to clearly demonstrate the company orgchart professional.

Create Flowchart

The Flowchart is a very popular type of diagram, it is widely used for analyzing, designing, managing and visualizing the business and technical processes, various software algorithms. But how to create Flowchart quick and easy? Flowcharts solution from the Diagrams area of ConceptDraw Solution Park helps you to design the professional looking Flowchart Diagrams quick and easy using the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software.

How to make great presentation via Skype? ...how it works with ConceptDraw MINDMAP?

ConceptDraw Solution Park provides a lot of useful solutions, among them Remote Presentation for Skype solution and powerful Mind Map Exchange solution. The presentation via Skype conference call is a part of Remote Presentation for Skype solution, due to it you are able to share easily your presentation via Skype and to control the slide-show process, which plays synchronously on the computers of all conference call participants. The Mind Map Exchange solution provides a lot of features for importing and exporting the documents between ConceptDraw MINDMAP software and the most popular mindmapping software tools, such as MindJet Mindmanager, Freemind, XMind and others. Thanks to all these abilities the ConceptDraw MINDMAP mind mapping software is perfect for holding the remote learning, remote training, varied web conferences, webinars and team briefings, and to represent any kind of information in a simple and convenient Mind Map form. With ConceptDraw MINDMAP it is easy to deliver the presentation session via Skype and to share the great-looking presentation documents with each conference participant.