SWOT Analysis Software

SWOT analysis is a powerful tool that helps the business professionals to identify the positives and negatives within an organization and in an external environment. TOWS is a variation of SWOT analysis, more focused on external factors and action planning. The correct and full awareness of the situation is important for strategic planning, as well as for decision making and coordination the company's resources and information capabilities of the competitive environment. SWOT and TOWS Matrix Diagrams solution included to ConceptDraw Solution Park makes the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM a powerful SWOT Analysis software and provides a lot of advantages. First of all note the set of ready-made templates that help to identify the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats the most quickly and effectively, and the choice of outputs to present the analysis results as SWOT or TOWS matrix. The well-designed SWOT matrix samples and examples included to SWOT and TOWS Matrix Diagrams solution illustrate the results you can achieve using it and also can be used as a good start for your own matrices.

6 sigma

6 Sigma is a popular management concept aimed at improving the quality of work of an organization or individual units and at continuous perfection the processes. The improvement of organization's activities may be executed through the radical changes or in consequence to minor regular improvements. The main purposes of these improvements may be increasing of product safety, improvement quality, decreasing the quantity of defects, shorter the manufacturing cycle, improvement the workplaces, reducing costs, etc. Currently, Six Sigma is applied by organizations of various activity spheres, from the industrial enterprises to the banks. 6 Sigma uses a set of different tools of quality for realizing the improvements and control the processes. Each organization applies its own set of tools, such as Pareto chart, Ishikawa diagram, Tree diagram, etc. Solutions from the Quality area of ConceptDraw Solution Park support quality and manufacturing managers with powerful visualization tools for production quality control and improvement, and supply the ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with Quality Management Mind Maps. This map illustrates how the Six Sigma methodology can be represented as a Mind Map.

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.

When To Use a Fishbone Diagram

Fishbone diagrams work for most entrepreneurs and almost any industry or person having a problem. Professional diagramming software may help you create Fishbone (Cause and Effect or Ishikawa) diagrams. When people are unclear about what is causing an issue, ConceptDraw DIAGRAM will be your lifesaver. When to use a Fishbone diagram? Originally developed as a quality control tool, you may find a Fishbone diagram helpful when used in many cases, such as to analyze a complex problem when there are many causes, for identifying all possible root causes for an effect or a problem, when you need different point of view to look on a problem, to uncover bottlenecks and identify where and why a process doesn't work, for acceleration a process when traditional ways of problem solving consume many time.

Genomics

Genomics is a section of molecular genetics devoted to the study of genome and genes of living organisms. The human's genome is a totality of inheritable material that is enclosed in a person's cell. The main task of genomics is the establishment of a complete genetic characterization of the whole cell, definition the number of contained genes and their sequences, number of nucleotides in each gene and their sequences, the functions of each gene in relation to the metabolism of an organism. Genomics allows to express the essence of an organism, its potential opportunities, generic and individual differences from other organisms, to anticipate the reaction to the external impacts, knowing the sequence of nucleotides in each of genes and number of genes. Genetic engineering rapidly moves, the new discoveries and achievements in this field occur in incredibly fast pace. This Mind Map represents the list of FAQs about genetic and genomic science, and illustrates how useful are the Mind Maps for structuring information and explaining the complex subjects in a simplified manner. ConceptDraw MINDMAP lets you easy create Mind Map representing the main thesises for any science.

Business Productivity - Quality

Quality control is a process directed on the maintaining of proper standards in manufacturing and engineering, on the monitoring of manufacturing defects and their elimination. The quality control process is quite capacious and extensive, and in many cases requires the use of specialized software in help to quality managers, to facilitate their work. This process will be effective with Flowcharts and Mind Maps that are recognized as the main tools in quality management, and are perfect for visualization the key quality points, quality instructions and depiction in details the quality control process. The ideal software for Mind Maps design is offered by ConceptDraw Office suite, it is a ConceptDraw MINDMAP. The Quality Mind Maps solution included to ConceptDraw Solution Park and ConceptDraw MINDMAP application provide creative and professional approach to business productivity and visualization quality processes. They support you in tasks of drawing Quality Management Diagrams and Mind Maps, such as Value Stream Maps, Total Quality Management Mind Maps, Quality Management Presentations, Quality Meeting Diagrams, etc.

Cause and Effect Diagram

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software extended with Fishbone Diagrams solution from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is perfect for Cause and Effect Diagram creating. It gives the ability to draw fishbone diagram that identifies many possible causes for an effect or a problem. Causes and Effects are usually grouped into major categories to identify these sources of variation. Causes and Effects in the diagram show relationships among various factor. Fishbone diagram shows factors of Equipment, Process, People, Materials, Environment and Management, all affecting the overall problem.