Business Productivity Area

Business Productivity Solutions extend ConceptDraw products with tools for making presentations, conducting meetings, preparing documents, brainstorming, or building new strategies.

Mind Maps for Business - SWOT Analysis

SWOT analysis is a planning method and the best way for effective exploring four major aspects for a business or a venture - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Visually SWOT analysis results are depicted as a SWOT matrix, diagram or Mind Map, which is then included to the set of documents, report or in presentation devoted to demonstration the results of realized SWOT analysis for directors, shareholders, and other interested employees. ConceptDraw Solution Park includes the SWOT and TOWS Matrix Diagrams solution, which offers wide possibilities for realization SWOT analysis and creation SWOT Matrices and SWOT Mind Maps in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and ConceptDraw MINDMAP software. This solution includes fully ready-to-use SWOT vector design elements, SWOT matrix samples and also useful templates that allow users create own SWOT diagrams and Mind Maps for business SWOT analysis in a few minutes. Use also the perfect ability of instantly exporting to various formats and of creation MS PowerPoint presentation right from the ConceptDraw applications.

Management

This solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and ConceptDraw MINDMAP with Management Diagrams and Mind Maps (decision making, scheduling, thinking ideas, problem solving, business planning, company organizing, SWOT analysis, preparing and holding meetings

SWOT analysis matrix diagram - Instructional sample

"SWOT analysis (SWOT Matrix) is a structured planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. A SWOT analysis can be carried out for a product, place, industry or person. It involves specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. ...
The degree to which the internal environment of the firm matches with the external environment is expressed by the concept of strategic fit." [SWOT analysis. Wikipedia]
This SWOT analysis matrix diagram example was drawn using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the SWOT Analysis solution from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

SWOT matrix

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SWOT and TOWS Matrix Diagrams

Seven Management and Planning Tools

Seven Management and Planning Tools solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and ConceptDraw MINDMAP with features, templates, samples and libraries of vector stencils for drawing management mind maps and diagrams.

ConceptDraw Solution Park

ConceptDraw Solution Park collects graphic extensions, examples and learning materials

TOWS analysis matrix - Template

"The TOWS matrix ... serves as a conceptual framework for future research about the combination of external factors and those internal to the enterprise, and the strategies based on these variables.
Equally important, the matrix 'forces' practicing managers to analyze the situation of their company and to develop
strategies, tactics, and actions for the effective and efficient attainment of its organizational objectives and its mission." [usfca.edu/ fac_ staff/ weihrichh/ docs/ tows.pdf]
This TOWS analysis matrix diagram template for the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software is included in the SWOT Analysis solution from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

TOWS matrix template

Used Solutions

Management >

SWOT and TOWS Matrix Diagrams

Management Area

The solutions from Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park collect templates, samples and libraries of vector stencils for drawing the management diagrams and mind maps.

PM Response

The PM Response solution extends the functional abilities in project management for all three ConceptDraw products by helping to improve the response time to project changes, to plan on how to effectively respond on issues and events impacting the project. It supplies the project managers, team leaders, and all other project participants with wide abilities of iteration planning, creative collaboration, effective decision-making, discussions of the project layout approaches and solving the project challenges, lets them use mind mapping technique for iteration planning and applying the project changes, to represent the projects data as Mind Maps and use them to construct the clear plans, to convert project maps to project implementations, to use different kinds of Visual diagrams to solve the current project problems and to make correct decisions, to plan resources usage and to respond to changes in the project environment.

Project Management Area

Project Management area provides Toolbox solutions to support solving issues related to planning, tracking, milestones, events, resource usage, and other typical project management functions.

PM Teams

This solution extends ConceptDraw Office 2.0 products with a single information space for messaging to teams.

PM Easy

PM Easy solution extends the ConceptDraw PROJECT functionality with an ability to support neutral methodology of project management and to quickly start a project by listing the task relationships and dependencies, that makes the iterative planning much easier. The project management tool and available visual tools, such as mind mapping, increase the effectiveness of tracking and analysis your project tasks. PM Easy solution from ConceptDraw Solution Park is mainly targeted at project managers in small or medium-sized companies, allowing them to make the project plan and execute projects using mind mapping technique, to implement planning using mind mapping, and to track tasks using ConceptDraw PROJECT application.

PM Personal Time Management

PM Personal Time Management solution extends the ConceptDraw Solution Park and all ConceptDraw Office suite products providing every project participant with tools and features allowing tracking timeframe, workspace and role in a project with the aid of Microreports, calendars, and project To-Do lists. PM Personal Time Management solution makes the collaborative work easier and improves personal performance, now each project participant stays informed about the task lists, calendars and future tasks for itself and its colleagues. Be effective in project management and personal time management, generate easily your personal To-Do lists, personal calendars, personal assignment lists, project checklists, and communicate with your colleagues using e-mail and sending project Microreports via e-mail with one click.

PM Meetings

PM Meetings solution extends ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with special tools, features, and templates, making the preparation for meetings of different orientation a quick and simple task, and allowing the project managers, team leaders, management specialists, and meeting organizers the capability to prepare easily and quickly for regular project meetings using solution's templates, to brainstorm ideas, to record brainstorming results, to keep the meetings on track, and to share meeting results immediately and without efforts. The meetings become more efficient because of the ability to easily record results, the collaborative team decisions are captured as a part of the meeting process, the meeting notes are easily distributed at a meeting’s conclusion to all participants and stakeholders.

PM Docs

PM Docs solution from ConceptDraw Solution Park extends ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with the ability to create and organize the project and company documentation, to structure information that relates to your project, to link the project documentation to tasks, phases, and resources. This solution contributes for improvement the project management abilities and enhancement the productivity of project team, makes it easier to locate the pertinent documentation over the life of a project, beginning from its planning, improves the document access and minimizes search time, lets to link or embed documentation into the project topics, helps create document, design professional Mind Maps, link the correct documents to keep them organized in a project, sort the project documents and visually differentiate the document types.

PM Presentations

The PM Presentations solution extends the power of ConceptDraw MINDMAP , ConceptDraw DIAGRAM , and ConceptDraw PROJECT, improving their efficiency at many stages of the project management process by using the same source data to construct the targeted presentation for your audience and clearly communicating the appropriate information to different audiences from a single source. It gives an ability to project managers and other team participants to create and to deliver capacious presentations representing the data and knowledge of a specific project with the help of including visual dashboards, Gantt charts, resource views, maps, timelines, calendars, illustrations, project diagrams and reports of varied types. Having the possibility to edit collaboratively in a Full-Screen Mode, the teams can rapidly plan a project as well as execute the tasks of revising and making changes to it.

PM Planning

The PM Planning solution extends the functional abilities of ConceptDraw MINDMAP and ConceptDraw PROJECT software, allowing to automatically create the spreadsheets reflecting the tasks and project statuses for people who have different project roles. The reporting capabilities of this solution are represented by the possibility to generate a wide range of project reports that allow the project managers, senior management and other project participants to be informed on a project daily progress and monthly objectives: All Inclusive Report, All Visible Columns, Milestones with Notes and Objectives, Projects Goals, Projects Managers, Project Team, and Top Level Tasks. The PM Planning solution from ConceptDraw Solution Park is a strong project management and productivity tool which simplifies the process of reporting and lets one create a document with the desired report, includes the predesigned examples, extends and improves the planning capabilities for all team members, improves the project communication, helps to accurately plan, maintain, and finish projects on time, to track the work of project resources, to perform the analytical work and to make effective decisions.