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.

Auditing Process. Audit Planning Process

Auditing Process, Audit Planning Process - The audit is complex process of independent examination of data, statements, operations, financial performances of an enterprise for a stated purpose. The auditing process consists of defined quantity of audit steps. Planning is fundamental stage of auditing process. The carefully thought-out audit planning process ensures the success of the business project.

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.

Quick Project Start

The rapid project startup and creation of initial project plan is possible and easy using effective and flexible mind mapping technique, which lets to gather requirements from your team and then plan activities in a visual mind mapping format. Using this technique you can establish time lines, delineate tasks, assign resources, and organize the overall project structure in a form of Mind Map. The ConceptDraw MINDMAP software, PM Easy solution and other offered PM solutions help in project management and support many project methodologies, including Agile and Scrum. ConceptDraw Toolbox solutions help to deal easy with common project situations, they are helpful for planning projects, tracking the milestones, events and resource usage, and for many other functions typical for project management. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software helps project managers effectively create the plan for high level tasks and milestones, set the tasks relations and dependencies, represent the project plan as a Mind Map, successfully start and realize the project of any size, and track the tasks using the ConceptDraw Project.

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.

Business Process

A business process is an activity or set of related and structured activities or tasks, which are used to accomplish a specific organizational goals, are directed on the production some specific product or service for particular customers. To measure the success of the business process within an organization is used the tracking of benchmarks, for improvement the business processes is applied the approach named as business process management. For visual depiction and modeling the business processes are successfully used the Mind Maps and Flowcharts. ConceptDraw MINDMAP is ideal software for business process mapping, business process diagramming and business modeling. It offers all needed tools for fast and easy designing the Business Process Mind Maps and Business Process Diagrams (Process Charts, Business Process Modeling Diagrams, Cross-Functional Flowcharts, Workflows, Timeline Diagrams, Calendars, Gantt Charts, IDEF0 and IDEF2, Audit and Opportunity Flowcharts), for visual documenting and communication the business process information, creation vivid presentations.

Quality Control Chart Software — ISO Flowcharting

Quality Control Chart Software (ISO Flowcharting) - ConceptDraw DIAGRAM extended with Total Quality Management TQM Diagrams Solution from the Quality Management Area is the best diagramming and vector drawing software that allows you to draw the quality control charts quick and easy. The quality control chart is a graphic that illustrates the accordance of processes or products to the intended specifications and degree of differences from them. Depending on what type of data you need analyze, there are used different types of quality control charts: X-bar charts, S charts, Np charts.

Task Board

Scrum is a widely used Agile framework for completing the complex projects. Originally invented for software development teams, it is now successfully applied for any innovative scope of work and any business industry. The Task board is an integral part and the most popular tool of the Scrum method. It is a simple, but powerful tool that is usually represented as a table consisting of rows and columns. The Task board contains the columns To Do, Work In Process, To Verify, Done and the set of tasks, each task starts at the To Do column. So, each team participant can see at a glance on a Task board which tasks are currently in work and which are already completed. The Task board reflects the current status of the project and moreover lets detect the problem situations, and then take promptly the needed measures. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software offers the powerful tools to depict the Task board in a form of Mind Map, to visualize Agile management methodologies Scrum and Kanban, and their hybrid Scrum-ban.

Quality Control Chart Software — ISO Flowcharting

Quality Control Chart Software (ISO Flowcharting) - ConceptDraw DIAGRAM extended with Total Quality Management TQM Diagrams Solution from the Quality Management Area is the best diagramming and vector drawing software that allows you to draw the quality control charts quick and easy. The quality control chart is a graphic that illustrates the accordance of processes or products to the intended specifications and degree of differences from them. Depending on what type of data you need analyze, there are used different types of quality control charts: X-bar charts, S charts, Np charts.

Sales Process Flowchart

Flowchart Examples

Sales Process Flowchart is an invaluable tool for business. It gives you opportunity to visualise and better understand the sales process, reveal and also visually highlight issues or bottlenecks, and predict the number of sales. The Flowchart is ideal method to represent in details all steps of the process, tasks and decisions needed to obtain maximum effectiveness and success. The steps are graphically represented by boxes linked with arrows indicating direction of the workflow, decision is shown by diamond. The sales process is closely linked to the company's success and usually includes the following main steps: Product knowledge, Prospecting, Planning the sale (Pre-approach), Approach, Need assessment, Presentation, Meeting objections, Gaining commitment, Follow-up. Create fast and easy your own Flowcharts of sales business processes using the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM ector graphic software extended with Cross-Functional Flowcharts solution from Business Processes area and also Sales Flowcharts solution from Marketing area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Audit Flowchart Symbols

The audit is a complex process consisting of defined quantity of steps, which have as a final goal the ensuring of success of a certain business project. It includes the independent examination of data, statements and financial performances of an enterprise for a stated purpose. It is convenient to construct the Audit Flowcharts or Audit Diagrams for visual representation and structuring the audit processes. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming software enhanced with Audit Flowcharts solution from the Finance and Accounting area of ConceptDraw Solution Park effectively helps to draw the Audit Diagrams for accounting, finance and money management, the Audit Flowcharts for fiscal information tracking, financial inventories and documenting Six Sigma, the decision making Flow Charts, etc. This solution provides the powerful drawing tools, numerous templates and samples, and large quantity of vector audit flowchart symbols that greatly facilitate the process of representation the audit steps and audit results, and designing efficient and visually appealing Audit Flowcharts.

HR Management Software

Human resource management (HRM) is a professional discipline which oversees and manages an organization's human resources, and aspires maximize employee performance for an employer's strategic objectives. The HR Management Software is an incredibly powerful tool for those who need to analyze or present human resource process flows in a visually effective manner.

Types of Flowchart — Overview

When designing a process or an instruction in clear and understandable way, you should consider creating a flowchart. You can avoid spending a lot of time understanding complex concepts as they get clear with different diagrams. The flowcharts are very popular diagram type, they are useful at different fields from the description business processes to the presentation of cooking recipes. Basic Flowchart, Business Process Modeling Diagram, Process Flowchart, Cross Functional Flowchart, Procedure Flowchart, Data Flow Diagram, IDEF Flowchart, SDL Diagram, Workflow Diagram, Document Flowchart, Program Flowchart, Value Stream Map, System Flowchart, Highlight Flowchart, Sales Flowchart are the main types flowchart. The ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is one of the professional applications which has great advantages and using which you can create different types of Flowcharts easy and fast. Try to draw an illustrative and comprehensible diagram in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM describing the processes instead of writing complex long text and make sure how it is convenient. Visio is expensive, and if you use it in a team environment, these costs are compounded. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is an affordable alternative to Visio and luckily, it comes with a team plan. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM can import and export Visio files, so Mac users can collaborate with PC users stuck on Microsoft's software.

Basic of Flowchart: Meaning and Symbols

Flowcharts are the best for visually representation the business processes and the flow of a custom-order process through various departments within an organization. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Flowcharts solution offers the full set of predesigned basic flowchart symbols which are gathered at two libraries: Flowchart and Flowcharts Rapid Draw. Among them are: process, terminator, decision, data, document, display, manual loop, and many other specific symbols. The meaning for each symbol offered by ConceptDraw gives the presentation about their proposed use in professional Flowcharts for business and technical processes, software algorithms, well-developed structures of web sites, Workflow diagrams, Process flow diagram and correlation in developing on-line instructional projects or business process system. Use of ready flow chart symbols in diagrams is incredibly useful — you need simply drag desired from the libraries to your document and arrange them in required order. There are a few serious alternatives to Visio for Mac, one of them is ConceptDraw DIAGRAM. It is one of the main contender with the most similar features and capabilities.

Flow Chart Creator

It is impossible to imagine the managing and analyzing of business and technical processes without flowcharts. They are the best way to visually represent the structural data, algorithms, the steps of the process, they allow to illustrate the process flow direction and solution to a given problem. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with flowchart maker and Flowcharts Solution from the "Diagrams" Area is a powerful Flow Chart Creator.

Problem to be solved

The problems and obstacles on the way to the planned targets appear all the time and in any kind of activity, but the ability to successfully solve them is a key moment towards to success. Mind Maps are effective tools for many tasks, in their quantity is included effective problems solving. In case you faced with any problem, the combination of mind mapping tools and such problem solving tools like as brainstorming, asking questions, drawing various diagrams, will help you to see all answers on the questions and to find the optimal variants of solutions. Use Mind Maps in order to identify problems, hold brainstorming session, generate a lot of ideas and associations, and then turn them into a problem's solution. Mind Maps help correctly set priorities, to recognize the most important aspects of the problem and to focus on them. They are perfect way to quickly and creatively solve the problem of any complexity. Templates offered by ConceptDraw MINDMAP software are incredibly useful for quick start. In case when you have some problem to be solved, you can simply fill this Mind Map template. The filling of all fields gives you a good overview of the problem, so then a correct decision becomes easier to find.

Cross-Functional Flowchart

Use of Cross-Functional Flowchart is a clear way of showing each team member’s responsibilities and how processes get shared or transferred between different responsible people, teams and departments. Use the best flowchart maker ConceptDraw DIAGRAM with a range of standardized cross-functional flowchart symbols to create the Cross-Functional Flowcharts simply and to visualize the relationship between a business process and the functional units responsible for that process. To draw the most quickly Cross-Functional Flowcharts, Cross Functional Process Maps, or Cross Functional Process Flow Diagrams, start with a Cross-functional flowchart samples and templates from ConceptDraw Solution Park. The ConceptDraw Arrows10 and RapidDraw technologies will be also useful for you in drawing. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM supports designing both types - horizontal and vertical Cross-functional flowcharts. A vertical layout makes the accents mainly on the functional units while a horizontal layout - on the process. If you need a Visio alternative in Mac OS X, try ConceptDraw DIAGRAM. Its interface is very intuitive and it’s actually much easier to use than Visio, yet somehow it’s just as powerful if not more so. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM performs professional quality work and seamless Visio interaction.